Example sentences of "up [prep] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 End date it 's picking up off the same list .
2 Then , when the glider pilot recognises he is far too low , any quick movement to regain position takes the glider up through the same wind gradient , causing a sudden surge of speed and producing an unexpected and possibly uncontrollable gain of height .
3 They signed up for the same courses and joined the same societies ; they sat together in seminars and went together to the National Film Theatre ; they had sex together and moved together into a one-roomed flat in their second year .
4 Macho Jose lined up for the same run at Leganes yesterday — and was wounded by another horn .
5 If he was up for a part in a Night Nurse commercial he 'd be sure to get it unless Mickey Rourke turned up for the same audition .
6 For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial .
7 A second raffle is expected to notch up about the same total .
8 BRISTOL City striker Leroy Rosenior accused referee Martin Bodenham of being ‘ a disgrace ’ because the official hassled him to get up after the former West Ham ace was knocked senseless .
9 Crawford Beveridge , SE 's chief executive , said the foundations for business had been laid by trade missions organised since the attempted coup in 1991 which led to the break up of the former Soviet Union .
10 Later paradigms saw the entire universe as being made up of the same kinds of material substances .
11 They are all made up of the same shapes-triangles , squares and rectangles .
12 Dundee 's Andy Nicol , to his astonishment , finds himself lining up against the All Blacks , having begun the season as the Scotland Students ' scrum-half with hopes , possibly at best , of a B-team cap .
13 He repeated his question , and came up against the same smiling ignorance .
14 We were not alone in our dilemma , for all the other prahus in the fleet around us were up against the same deadline .
15 Unfortunately for Glanvil , many ghost stories are faked ; and investigators of the psychic phenomena of two centuries later came up against the same problem .
16 Gone over it , through it , round it , beyond it , and ended , every time , trapped in the same corner , backed up against the same blank wall .
17 Concrete must be used within four house of mixing , and it is usually easier to keep up with the latter type , which is laid as it is mixed .
18 We do not have a complete inventory , partly because it is hard to keep up with the many new arrivals , partly because we are always short-staffed .
19 Nguyen Ai Quoc went into Yunnan early in 1942 to link up with the many other Vietnamese exiles who were known collectively as Dong Minh Hoi .
20 The scouts were also working hard to keep up with the many breakfasts they cooked that morning .
21 It was a delight to see the pleasure , particularly of many of our older employees , once again meeting up with the former MD 's of the company .
22 We checked the pH by an electronic meter and came up with the same reading .
23 A very large number came up with the same idea : that Mummy or Daddy has had a sex change .
24 They were being brought up with the same affection the Sheikha gave her own daughter .
25 If a method of collecting evidence is reliable , it means that anybody else using this method , or the same person using it at another time , would come up with the same results .
26 Othello ends up with the same poisoned suspicions as Iago , who had earlier confessed that he suspects both Othello and Cassio of having cuckolded him with Emilia ( II.i.285ff . ) .
27 All came up with the same idea and they wanted to do it .
28 Mirra Komarovsky comes up with the same finding in her survey of American working-class marriage .
29 I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way .
30 In a similar search which fails , R1 and R2 will end up with the same final weights , but R3 is not rewarded :
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