Example sentences of "up [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though from a much more comfortable background than Burton , Dylan Thomas had been brought up just the other side of Swansea Bay , a few years older than the man who would become his greatest reader . |
| 2 | No-one ever explained how Kleine , who was too drunk to walk , managed to string himself up early the following morning . |
| 3 | Alex Salmond , Margaret Ewing and Andrew Welsh , you can be sure , will have weighed up carefully the predictable uproar and have decided that the obtaining , with only three votes , of such a sensible and important concession for Scotland from the Government is , in fact , a considerable achievement . |
| 4 | Starting his career in the Midlands , over the years Stan worked up both the educational establishment and the country , aiming ever nearer Scotland ; until finally arriving at Carlisle , where he held his last post . |
| 5 | I 'd been up practically the whole night , and all that driving with the sun dancing on the baked roads had n't helped . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps not , ’ Travis agreed , then said how he 'd dearly love to ring Rosemary at her parents ' home , but that he knew for sure that he could definitely give up even the frail hope he had left of sharing his life with Rosemary if he did that . |
| 7 | And if it 's about four it 's up here the normal four . |
| 8 | ‘ You were spying when you came up here the other day , were n't you ? ’ said Sugden looking through the contents of my handbag . |
| 9 | When Gem was up here the other day she was telling us about one of them teachers who plays computer games instead of giving lessons |
| 10 | Painted directly upon the wall , it takes up almost the entire pub . |
| 11 | But I was talking to a Prof up there the other day , the actual A level , do you know , it 's pathetic really , I mean when you 're talking about law degrees you want about threes A's at A and now even accepting C's A , A level C's for engineering itself ! |
| 12 | Went up there the following day and they came back armed with all sorts of things — knives and cudgels — and they went up there and a real fight developed . |
| 13 | You want to choose one there , they been very busy , have they been very busy up there the old canteen then ? |
| 14 | Give the old up there the old . |
| 15 | And er we were all brought up there the whole lot of us and I think I was about fifteen when I left there . |
| 16 | Nevertheless the Trotskyists themselves split , on the issue of whether or not to co-operate with the ICP , and , just as the VNQDD had been destroyed as a competitor with the Communist Party by French repression after Yen-Bay , so the French colonial government , shortly after war had begun in 1939 , rounded up virtually the entire leadership of the Trotskyist International Communist League , as it was then called : a coup from which the movement never recovered . |
| 17 | The increase of speed with altitude could be the result of the upward transfer , by convection in the troposphere , of energy of motion : as such energy is transferred from the high-density regions at low altitudes to the low-density regions high up then the low-density material has to move faster to carry this energy . |
| 18 | And then you lift your feet off the ground and rush round and round , faster and faster and the momentum even twists the chain up again the other way ? ’ |
| 19 | The pair of them teamed up again the following season when Moss also joined the German manufacturer . |
| 20 | So anyway , she got over it and all she had to do she she tell her to stay in bed now for s so many days but she 'd be up again the following day and then the nurse 'd come and have a look under her feet and she 'd say you been up again she 'd say . |