Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 2 | Fired by an intensely feminine and creative energy , she was spotted as a teenager by her first impresario , who snapped her up off the streets where she had been making her living and introduced her to the torrid cabaret life of the French capital . |
| 3 | She believes Jack was probably rounded up off the moors by a dealer who intended to sell him to be fattened up for slaughter.He has now joined hundreds of other animals at the centre who have been rescued . |
| 4 | I see the way the snow is kicked up off the paws of the dogs , the way their breath explodes around their heads . |
| 5 | ‘ Picked it up off The Idlers . ’ |
| 6 | According to Burnham Beeches superintendent Ian Turney : " Since grazing was stopped , young trees have grown up between the pollards , competing for light , water and nutrients . |
| 7 | Harry had come into the lower doorway at the right time , and was moving up between the tables to take his normal place among the young fellows of knightly family , his peers . |
| 8 | We can not escape the conclusion that many of those employed in the Service feel a deep sense of dissatisfaction with the organisation and management of it as a whole and that a gulf has grown up between the establishments in the field and the staff who work in them on the one hand and headquarters at the Home Office in London on the other . |
| 9 | The hot air from the fire passed up between the laths . |
| 10 | It ran up between the windows of two rooms used as bedrooms by the plaintiffs , thus allowing anyone using the staircase to see directly into the ground-floor flat . |
| 11 | It 's steamed up between the layers is that what you 're looking at . |
| 12 | The duchess , recalling her own upbringing amidst a lively brood of brothers and sisters , recognized this , and was gratified by the devotion and closeness that had grown up between the girls . |
| 13 | She performed a complicated manoeuvre , which Julia could not follow at all , and brought her two hands up between the strings held by her son . |
| 14 | Such latent knowledge is not at all surprising , if we reflect on the amazing complications of the rules of syntax , of constructing intelligible sentences , including the use of tenses , negatives , hypotheticals , which children pick up between the ages of 18 months and 4 or 5 , generally without any teaching at all . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , Sapaudia was divided up between the Burgundians and the native population . |
| 16 | The Dolls ' House nursery is filled with everything considered essential for this world , and is an excellent reminder of the way in which privileged children grew up between the wars . |
| 17 | Chain ownership , built up between the wars by the manoeuvres of the press barons ( mainly seeking economies of scale ) , remained a crucial factor . |
| 18 | Another of the benefits of the travelling team system was the camaraderie that was built up between the players , all of whom were effectively competing with each other for Davis Cup recognition . |
| 19 | The traditional lobola payments were rarely made and no contract drawn up between the families . |
| 20 | Woolley side-slipped and fell behind it , then climbed and injected a long burst into its belly , searching forwards until he saw the bullets slashing up between the wing-roots . |
| 21 | There is a great consensus building up between the peoples of East and West as to the sort of Europe they want to see . |
| 22 | It is a reasonably steep walk up between the trees and the outcrops and takes about forty-five minutes . |
| 23 | Even in an age of permissiveness not every boy — girl encounter ends up between the sheets . |
| 24 | What is less clear , however , is how funds derived from such government-financed bodies as the Research Councils should be divided up between the universities and the public sector institutions of higher education . |
| 25 | This results from a failure in the sealing of the unit and causes condensation to build up between the panes of glass . |
| 26 | There are two types of corn , the hard variety — which usually develops on the tips or top of the toes — and the soft corn that builds up between the toes . |
| 27 | The whole area out here was paved and small stonecrops and sedums with white and yellow starry flowers grew up between the stones . |
| 28 | Too often she had seen her mother frowning with anxiety as she divided the contents of her father 's wage packet up between the jars labelled ‘ Rent ’ and ‘ Electric ’ and ‘ Coal Money ’ , too often at the end of the week she had watched her count out the pennies for a pound of sausages only to be able to buy just a half-pound , two for her father , one each for Paula and Sally , and only the scrapings of the pan to go with her own potatoes . |
| 29 | The farmer did not reply for a moment , then he went up between the cows and gently rubbed Blossom 's forehead " Aye , this is the one , Jack . " |
| 30 | Like lying on one 's back as we did in Spain when we slept out looking up between the fig-branches into the star-corridors , the great seas and oceans of stars . |