Example sentences of "up [adv] [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hydraulic pressure built up slowly until the door wheezed open . |
| 2 | Compared with the stereotyped western firm , they operate from the bottom up rather than the top down . |
| 3 | In short a process of levelling up rather than the levelling down anticipated by many critics of comprehensive provision . |
| 4 | I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume . |
| 5 | So , another possible explanation is that in a polygynous society , the parallel cousins will be much more likely to grow up together than the cross-cousins . |
| 6 | They both looked up together as the door opened and Madeleine came hesitantly forward . |
| 7 | Another senses movement in the car handle so that the coil heats up only when the handle is rattled . |
| 8 | The advantage of this technique is that , in subsequent processing , the whole prime data track can be handled sequentially by the software , and overflow records are picked up only when the prime track has been processed . |
| 9 | After the evening meal ( sweet salmon cooked in white wine ) , Benjamin and I stayed up long after the taproom emptied . |
| 10 | The larks had not been up long when the first cars began filtering into the parks . |
| 11 | ( vi ) After centrifugation insert a rod through the hole in the base of the tube and push the plunger up gently until the chambers emerge and can be removed . |
| 12 | With most agents in agreement that the top end of the market has held up better than the bottom end , this widening differential between the values of prime and mass-market housing is likely to increase . |
| 13 | With a drop of 42% from the peak reached in 1990 the German Expressionist Index has held up better than the more volatile sectors of French and American painting . |
| 14 | Hector , picking at his food , sat up suddenly as the rushes moved gently under her feet . |
| 15 | His godson , Harry Hubbard , is a young Agency aspirant who joins up just as the Cold War is getting hot . |
| 16 | Richard Norton-Taylor adds : Contingency plans for the use of troops in ambulance disputes were drawn up shortly after the Government came to power in 1979 , Whitehall documents show . |
| 17 | Richard Norton-Taylor adds : Contingency plans for the use of troops in ambulance disputes were drawn up shortly after the Government came to power in 1979 , Whitehall documents show . |
| 18 | In earlier version of the program it was impossible to line anything up anyway because the program 's internal accuracy was insufficient ; the classic 11 point being converted by the program into 10.98 point with the rounding errors occasionally throwing an extra line on or off the page . |
| 19 | She was giving up anyway when the baby came , so she might as well go a little early . ’ |
| 20 | She jumped and came up short as the rope went taut . |
| 21 | The meeting broke up quickly as the other men in the room rose from wherever they had found to sit , some on chairs but most cross-legged on the floor , picked up weapons and equipment , and began to file out . |
| 22 | Biting her lip with worry , and trying not to give way to her feelings of fear and trepidation , she looked up quickly as the door opened . |
| 23 | I put that price up more than the standard , that 's wrong . |
| 24 | Case loads of course built up gradually as the samples were generated , and then tailed off after the recruitment year ended . |
| 25 | This means starting the record at about 33rpm , and speeding it up gradually as the stylus travels in . |
| 26 | All was cleared up later when the hotel manager came to investigate but our sympathies must go to the hapless Security Gorilla , as recent photographic evidence proves that mistaking Bob Dylan for a tramp with salubrious lodgings in Cardboard City is something even hardened celeb watchers like ourselves have done at some point or another . |
| 27 | She got back in the bed wet through , and sat up brazenly as the young girl brought the tray in . |
| 28 | The war came first , though anti-Chinese sentiment flared up periodically as the numbers of Chinese engaged in British ports continued to rise to 8,182 in 1914 and 14,224 in 1915 , increased by the diversion to the west of ships normally operating east of Suez . |
| 29 | I do n't know why makers leave nuts high in this way ; if they have real confidence in their necks , they should set nuts up perfectly before the guitars leave the workshop . |
| 30 | Their resilience and in part fortuitous revival may have been due to the slightly more permissive policies of the Popular Front government in Paris — thousands of political prisoners were released although thousands more remained in gaol — but much more seems to have been the result of the ability to rebuild an organization from the bottom up even though the advice and instructions they received from international communism meant acquiescence in policies which did not give them pre-eminent appeal as a revolutionary party . |