Example sentences of "up [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hopped down to the floor , but it seemed further away than she had expected and now suddenly it was rising up crazily to meet her . |
| 2 | Apparently no one had told McCulloch what key the rest were playing in but , technical matters aside , the whole thing was lapped up keenly by the crowd . |
| 3 | Apparently no one had told McCulloch what key the rest were playing in but , technical matters aside , the whole thing was lapped up keenly by the crowd . |
| 4 | He succeeded his father on 16 August 1549 , taking up thereby his first office , that of alnager of Surrey and Sussex . |
| 5 | ‘ ( 1 ) A person who uses threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour , or displays any written material which is threatening , abusive or insulting , is guilty of an offence if ( a ) he intends thereby to stir up racial hatred , or ( b ) having regard to all the circumstances racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ A person who publishes or distributes written material which is threatening , abusive or insulting is guilty of an offence if — ( a ) he intends thereby to stir up racial hatred , or ( b ) having regard to all the circumstances racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If a public performance of a play is given which involves the use of threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour , any person who directs the performance is guilty of an offence if — ( a ) he intends thereby to stir up racial hatred , or ( b ) having regard to all the circumstances ( and in particular , taking the performance as a whole ) racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ ( 1 ) A person who distributes , or shows or plays , a recording of visual images or sounds which are threatening , abusive or insulting is guilty of an offence if — ( a ) he intends thereby to stir up racial hatred , or ( b ) having regard to all the circumstances racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby . |
| 9 | ‘ ( 1 ) If a programme involving threatening , abusive or insulting visual images or sounds is broadcast , or included in a cable programme service , each of the persons mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) is guilty of an offence if — ( a ) he intends thereby to stir up racial hatred , or ( b ) having regard to all the circumstances racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby . |
| 10 | ‘ ( 1 ) A person who has in his possession written material which is threatening , abusive or insulting , or a recording of visual images or sounds which are threatening , abusive or insulting , with a view to — ( a ) in the case of written material , its being displayed , published , distributed , broadcast or included in a cable programme service , whether by himself or another , or ( b ) in the case of a recording , its being distributed , shown , played , broadcast or included in a cable programme service , whether by himself or another , is guilty of an offence if he intends racial hatred to be stirred up thereby or , having regard to all the circumstances , racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ ( 1 ) A person who has in his possession written material which is threatening , abusive or insulting , or a recording of visual images or sounds which are threatening , abusive or insulting , with a view to — ( a ) in the case of written material , its being displayed , published , distributed , broadcast or included in a cable programme service , whether by himself or another , or ( b ) in the case of a recording , its being distributed , shown , played , broadcast or included in a cable programme service , whether by himself or another , is guilty of an offence if he intends racial hatred to be stirred up thereby or , having regard to all the circumstances , racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby . ’ |
| 12 | Interior trim has stood up remarkably well to hard use |
| 13 | Xanthe had cheered up remarkably through being the centre of sympathetic attention , and Filmer was telling Mercer Lorrimore he should sue the railway company for millions of dollars for negligence . |
| 14 | Carling revealed that Thursday 's secret training session involved the reserve three-quarters ‘ pushing up remarkably quickly so we could work on ways to counter the way the Boks defend ’ . |
| 15 | The Dark Ones are demanding , but he has been bearing up remarkably . |
| 16 | Otherwise his physical condition held up remarkably well . |
| 17 | ‘ Bearing up remarkably well , ’ Kenneth said . |
| 18 | Our sales of new business have help up remarkably well in the circumstances , and what I call ‘ controllable terminations ’ have been well contained . |
| 19 | Lord Sterling said the group 's service companies had held up remarkably well in difficult conditions and the cruise division had produced a marked improvement in results . |
| 20 | Melanie picked them up wearily . |
| 21 | Nicola 's husband looked up wearily , his voice no more than the rustle of dead leaves . |
| 22 | She glared up furiously into his self-satisfied face . |
| 23 | Springing up microscopically on the double helices to create that most controversial of creatures — the human embryo . |
| 24 | You need only set up elegantly simple categories and logic will whisk you to whatever conclusion you have in mind . |
| 25 | The process was summed up elegantly , although without differential equations , by Crane , when she stated that : |
| 26 | He straightened up grimly . |
| 27 | According to research conducted in the US , nine out of ten people who buy a computer end up bitterly regretting the decision . |
| 28 | He flung aside the door he was suddenly lying beneath , stared up bitterly and ran a black shirt-cuff across his bloodied nose . |
| 29 | ‘ I think they thought Mortimer and I were having an affair , ’ she finished up bitterly . |
| 30 | At the time Mr Justice Macpherson said the decision of the Merseyside police authority chairman , Mr George Brundred , and his deputy , Mr Harry Rimmer , leader of Liverpool City Council , to delegate her case to a committee they set up expressly for the purpose ‘ had the smell of unfairness about it ’ . |