Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact : a full-length cinema-scope colour spread of BB on her stomach at the water 's edge displaying a bottom ‘ as bare as a censor 's eyeball ’ said Time ; BB rescued from the sea in a clinging wet dress ; her wedding night concealed behind some strategically tossed bed linen ; and her breasts showing in faint outline through the sheet she is holding up for modesty 's sake ( they were never seen unveiled ) . |
| 2 | All was safely gathered in and Mr and Mrs Squirrel Nutkin 's hoard was laid up for winter 's sustenance . |
| 3 | Finally , at the low end , Acorn spin-off , Advanced RISC Machines , seems set to battle it out with AT&T 's Hobbit RISC in the handheld computer market — ARM has been taken up for Apple 's Newton range , while Hobbit is expected to be the RISC target for Go Corp 's PenPoint operating system . |
| 4 | The regional conference one , er since there is a regional transport paper coming up for debate er in in which I had er a hand as regional erm policy chairman , er the the the Worsley motion er will in fact be taken as a an amendment er to that regional paper which is coming up er at the Southport conference . |
| 5 | It was the second time witnesses had failed to turn up for Tapping 's trial . |
| 6 | The girls who sign up for fashion 's survival course say they could n't imagine life on the other side of the camera . |
| 7 | When spring comes the earth begins to warm up after winter 's long , cold days . |
| 8 | The hydrolysates are made up of cow 's milk , cornstarch and other foods , but treated with digestive enzymes ( see p 18 ) so that the milk proteins are partially broken down . |
| 9 | ‘ Frenchman 's Creek ’ is solely made up of Dona 's life and is structured in a very different way . |
| 10 | At the time er well I 've always through the roofing right you you come up against site fore you know site foreman general foreman clerk of works and I I 've always got on well with I can always talk to people . |
| 11 | And then O placed his right hand in the small of Boy 's back and put his left hand up behind Boy 's head and he kissed him right there and then . |
| 12 | Do we have here an expression of the belief that the redemption of nature is integrally bound up with man 's redemption ? |
| 13 | Wilfish Implexion woke up with Jeopardy 's name on his lips . |
| 14 | She would have grown up with Marguerite 's calm influence around her ; she would have been more French than English . |
| 15 | There had been things Crevecoeur could have done to get out , such as take advantage of the open invitation to take up with Cab 's natro group . |
| 16 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |
| 17 | At any rate , declarer went up with dummy 's ace to drop the queen and land his slam . |
| 18 | Lucas Aerospace has teamed up with Harm 's US manufacturer , and would get half of the work on any Harms ordered for the RAF . |
| 19 | I 'm sorry , ’ she said , looking up into Fen 's face . |
| 20 | Perplexed , she looked up into Dane 's face . |
| 21 | Startled , she looked up into Dane 's sea-blue eyes , and even as she tried to strengthen herself against him she felt a rush of longing so intense that it made her weak at the knees . |
| 22 | Dauntless helped Cleo up onto Contralto 's back , swiftly following her . |
| 23 | Even allowing for the obligatory cock up in defence = goal . |
| 24 | ‘ Then you 'll have to take it standing up in cook 's enamel bowl . ’ |
| 25 | Such criticisms are perhaps most clearly and tersely summed up in Hawthorn 's assessment of Hobhouse : |
| 26 | If Joshua 6 represents God as mixed up in humanity 's games of power and violence in a way that is denied by the Crucified God of the Gospels , 1 Samuel 4–6 , in both its tragedy and its comedy , would declare his refusal to play along with us on our terms , and his insistence on doing his own thing . |
| 27 | A poodle tucked up in Granny 's bed would be only pathetic . |
| 28 | Thus Aquinas , who stood in a long tradition which came to him through the teachings of the early canonists summed up in Gratian 's Decretum ( 1140 ) , was clear that every state had both the right and the duty to defend itself , its legitimate existence , and its rights when these could be legally proved ( ‘ It is legitimate to oppose force with force ’ , as Justinian 's Digest put it ) . |
| 29 | Longman the least seasonally biased of the three struggled to break even in the first half and this removed the normal pattern of Longman 's half-year profits helping to offset the first half losses of the other two businesses but before we get too depressed er I point out that Addison Wesley s sales were up by eleven percent and the size of the first half loss reflects the company 's decision to gear up in advance er , for what we w believe will be a very strong er , second er , half performance . |
| 30 | Buy it by pound , yes , they wrapped it up in paper wr in greaseproof paper yes they 'd pat it into |