Example sentences of "up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jumping up off a seat is easy enough because almost any action will make things better . |
| 2 | ‘ Because , ’ said Damian Flint , ‘ when antagonism springs up between a man and a woman , it 's really just a fight for supremacy . |
| 3 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
| 4 | Taking the middle of the handkerchief , Vic drew it up through a hole he had formed with his other hand . |
| 5 | In the opening section of the pageant , Mahmud , lying underneath the stage , was due to poke a flag decorated with a crescent moon up through a crack in the stage . |
| 6 | She occupied a tiny apartment hidden away beneath Betty 's house , and she had a habit of materializing unexpectedly as if she 'd sprung up through a trapdoor . |
| 7 | From here you can either continue by cable car to the summit at 9,679 feet and enjoy the panoramic views from the restaurant , or you can walk up through a half-mile tunnel ( with viewing windows at intervals ) to the Schneefernehaus . |
| 8 | Old : Take the steep path leading up through a re-plantation scheme until it is possible to exit from its left-hand top corner to gain steep scree . |
| 9 | She was lying on the carpet , the lips of her cunt , soft and blunt , pushing up through a mound of black curls . |
| 10 | Set up through a partnership between the NHS and private industry , the centre cost half a million pounds to build and can care for fifty patients . |
| 11 | We climbed onto it , put our arms into the shaft of sunlight , grasped the upper edges of the hole and , one by one , hauled ourselves up through a manhole into another street . |
| 12 | At Leipzig , Betty Israel saw a baby handed up through a carriage window . |
| 13 | So a boy coming up through a family that was involved in riveters would sort of more or less |
| 14 | It gets them up through a business meeting and brings them back down to earth when the crisis is passed . |
| 15 | Built-in furniture is also worth consideration at an early stage , as there will be a strict limit on what can be brought up through a loft hatch or new stairway . |
| 16 | In operation it is similar to the normal type of tap : the water flows up through an orifice which can be closed by a jumper with a washer screwed down on to it . |
| 17 | I think she should have played a Tour Event before an exhibition event , but then again it would n't be the first time she has n't turned up for a Tour Event would it ? |
| 18 | When a television crew turns up for a tour of his house and DIY achievements , everything falls apart as he touches it . |
| 19 | Crilly has tidied the flat , and my bed is made up for a queen with extra duvets and fluffy pillows . |
| 20 | Michael Howard , the employment secretary , was left to make the best of this glum news by telling the TECs ' directors — 1,200 of them , by December 1990 — that they could make up for a shortfall in cash from the Treasury by raising money from the private sector . |
| 21 | While it is unremarkable to observe that although some people eat three meals a day , and others miss out breakfast and lunch altogether , taking all their food in the evenings , there is no such parallel during sleep — no normal person has been found who , for instance , takes all his or her REM sleep in one session of ninety minutes at the beginning of the night , or saves it all up for a session in the early hours of the morning . |
| 22 | Save up for a holiday . |
| 23 | The Dormouse woke up for a minute and then went to sleep again . |
| 24 | The flow will not let up for a minute . |
| 25 | Would you mind shutting up for a minute , |
| 26 | Tt now if we just take that , that latter point up for a minute we can |
| 27 | Did you want to stand up for a minute ? |
| 28 | The town 's magistrates were told that tension had built up for a year after a decision to dissolve the partnership . |
| 29 | Other guaranteed income bonds are paying an average of around 5 per cent on £5,000 left tied up for a year . |
| 30 | They brought Sam here , Put him up for a year . |