Example sentences of "up [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then spring up on to a bench . |
| 2 | Follow this , keeping edge of wood on left and take next left fork which runs up on to a shoulder where another path joins from left and then ascends shoulder steeply ( f ) . |
| 3 | Landowners started to complain that the bikes were chewing up their paths , raising the whole ugly debate about access up on to a new plane , and ridge-walks lost some of their grandeur by displaying fat tyre tracks on their grassy sections . |
| 4 | In less dramatic contexts , for de-clawed cats kept indoors ( and robbed of all outdoor pleasures ) , even the simple act of climbing up on to a chair or a window-ledge may prove hazardous . |
| 5 | But it seems more likely that this fear has more to do with the childhood horror of seeing the parent scream at the ‘ smothering ’ cat that has just jumped up on to a cot or bed . |
| 6 | Everyone who knew him in those schooldays — men and women alike — speak with affection of him : stories tumble out like clothes spilling out of a split suitcase — Richard peeing out of the train window as the engine roared by the station platform , Richard taking a girl up on to a mountain and scaring her to flight at his howl as a passionate hand landed on one of his more angry boils , Rich , reeking of beer , rolling into school and being sent home . |
| 7 | A whinchat perched , first atop a tussock — ‘ Tic , tic , tic , tu-tic ’ — then it flew up on to a boulder to continue its scolding . |
| 8 | I climbed up on to a bank to see . |
| 9 | Someone lifted me up on to a high chair , so that I was close to his nose . |
| 10 | Frejji 's voice , making me jump , jolted my headache up on to a new level . |
| 11 | Cassowary lumbered up on to a branch and began to squawk , screwing his eyes tight shut , the better to appreciate his own performance . |
| 12 | Steven cursed inwardly and had to step up on to a low wall above the height of the laser-axles to empty and fill his lungs again . |
| 13 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
| 14 | In a moment , they were far enough out that they could see miles down the rocky shoreline … and they could see the other boaters scrambling up on to a piece of rock . |
| 15 | She lifted a leg up on to a pile of old beer crates , leaving Charlie faced with an expanse of bare pink thigh . |
| 16 | After the theatrics of the ridge , it 's a strange experience to emerge up on to an enormous flat plateau — a bit like climbing the ladder up to your loft and discovering it leads to an American Football stadium . |
| 17 | Build up slowly to a frequency of 20 muscle-pulls six to eight times a day . |
| 18 | It is also necessary not to view policies in a static way ; they have been built up slowly over a long period and they are still changing . |
| 19 | Horowitz replaced the phone , stood up slowly without a word , walked slowly up to the guard . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm surprised you did n't set up somewhere in a city , ’ she went on , tearing her glance from his face . |
| 21 | On the whole , she thought as she grilled her lamb chop , tossed the broad beans from cullender to plate and regarded the ginger-haired Tobias who had curled up companionably on a copy of the parish magazine in the centre of the kitchen table , it 's an icon of paradise : a garden I did not make , a house I 'm only partly responsible for and , above all , no human contacts unless I seek them out . |
| 22 | Similarly , the database can be built up piecemeal without an organissed data analysis exercise . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , applications in many organisations have been built up piecemeal in an unorganised , often chaotic way . |
| 24 | These were wrapped up together with a pair of white satin shoes . |
| 25 | Peter , and hundreds like him , represent the ghastly far frontier of American urban degeneration , life and death wrapped up together in a tiny , bright-red jumpsuit . |
| 26 | The adult males have grown up together in a similar pride , left before maturity , and stayed together . |
| 27 | Grandma used to say they were like chalk and cheese , and that they should have been shaken up together in a bag to get more of a mixture . |
| 28 | They 're all messed up together in a bowl . ’ |
| 29 | I can resolve it with my 28-cm reflecting telescope , but even in × 20 binoculars it shows up only as a blur . |
| 30 | The globular M62 is in the same field as RR Scorpii ; it is about 26000 light-years away , and is not hard to locate , though in binoculars it shows up only as a condensed blur of light . |