Example sentences of "up [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that I 've just picked up off the here . |
| 2 | As he did so , a black gloved hand shot up through the suddenly exposed gap and rammed a razor sharp six-inch blade hilt-deep under his ribcage . |
| 3 | RUGBY Union rookies Tony Underwood and Martin Hynes received a boost to their England hopes yesterday when they were called up for the today 's game against Leicester . |
| 4 | Before he stepped up for the most nerve-shattering moment of his career Guennady Grishin had kept his nerve to fire the Russians into a 4-3 advantage . |
| 5 | The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic . |
| 6 | Why not stand up for the uniquely British spirit embodied by Richard Lester ( who 's American — DQ ) , Rita Tushingham , Shelagh Delaney , Tom Courtenay , etc . |
| 7 | ( Lazing 's highly recommended if you 've been up for the 8.30am aerobics . |
| 8 | It was O , calling Boy up for the very first time . |
| 9 | In the blue corner , we have the ‘ JD Telecaster ’ , the Japanese-made version of the very same instrument , and one you can probably pick up for the very interesting price of £400 or less . |
| 10 | As churches we feel an obligation to speak up for the least privileged in our society , for those who live in the areas of highest unemployment , poorest housing and social disintegration . |
| 11 | But , in spite of the Royal Navy , Jones , after a voyage to be described later , sailed safely back to France , where his reception more than made up for the much cooler one he had received after his ‘ Whitehaven ’ cruise 18 months before . |
| 12 | Then he looked up towards the softly defined slopes , high above the village . |
| 13 | John Gordon , representative for Lancashire and Cheshire , was also presented with a cheque as runner up of the closely fought contest narrowly beating Robin Saunders , Alan Calver and James Thomas . |
| 14 | Jean Monnet was appointed as the president of the High Authority , and his resignation from the office in June 1955 was the only occasion before the setting up of the much broader European Economic Community in 1957 when there was a change in the membership of the High Authority . |
| 15 | ‘ But at England level you are always up against the best from another country and unless you get the basics right you are in trouble . |
| 16 | The first sees Dawn Milligan 's Valentinos Joy , drawn favourably in trap two after winning its last two opens at Sunderland , lining up against the highly respected Belle Vue dog No Joe Soap ( trap 4 ) and Brough Park 's Movealong Sharp ( 3 ) . |
| 17 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 18 | But each time this has been tried , it comes up against the apparently irreconcilable rivalries of the three figures who have dominated the French right for the past 15 years — Jacques Chirac , Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and ( to a lesser extent ) Raymond Barre . |
| 19 | The waterfall is a part of the enormously extensive and complicated subterranean water system that has been traced now through this limestone mass if and which links up with the astonishingly deep fissures or gouffres that the speleologists have explored in the mountains to the east . |
| 20 | The German Siemens was in a stronger position in several ways ; in addition to its computer and telecommunications equipment strengths , Siemens in the late 1980S was attempting to catch up with the vertically integrated Japanese electronics companies ; it was making a major chip effort , with use by the German car industry especially in mind . |
| 21 | To help its clients keep up with the seemingly exponential growth of market data , Yamaichi Securities Co. , Ltd. has created the world 's first integrated information system focused exclusively on the financial sector . |
| 22 | Of course , that sort of thing has a really limited audience and , because we were living in Hawaii , there was nobody there to watch us anyway , so we were coming up with the most insane stuff we could do , basically just to please ourselves ! |
| 23 | Tim Kaihatsu wrote quite a lot — in fact , he was the one who came up with the most material . |
| 24 | Homeless people came up with the most poignant things , probably because they 're used to communicating this way . ’ |
| 25 | Hope walked across to one of the biggest stones and examined its blank surface close up with the most scrupulous attention until the Colonel and his ward had quit the field . |
| 26 | ‘ They spend their entire lives trying to match me up with the most unsuitable women you could possibly hope to meet . ’ |
| 27 | Most of the Healthcare group asked if they could attend , and as Brenda says ‘ We ended up with the most romantic wedding you could wish for . |
| 28 | She came up with the wonderfully whacky idea of the Cabinet all being drug smugglers . ’ |
| 29 | Taken up with the rather generous terms that he imagined — as it turned out accompanied the post , he accepted . |
| 30 | Erm I did n't spot the tentative benefit , I do n't think you actually got that bit as far as what was gon na be in it because when erm Steve came up with the why so long I think that , that took you off the track a bit . |