Example sentences of "[verb] [vb base] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tommy is pressed face up against the wall , arms handcuffed behind his back . |
| 2 | This card may be placed face up at the table edge or with the unit to indicate that it is affected . |
| 3 | ‘ I walked round her bed I could see her lying face up under the bedclothes , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Buzz found herself lying face up in the snow , in great pain , unable to move : as helpless as a black beetle flipped on to its back . |
| 5 | But five days after he moved in he was found by staff horribly scalded across his back and chest lying face up in the bath . |
| 6 | The body was lying face up in the rain . |
| 7 | Unlike those of the Philistines his worst fears have been realized , and the cry he hears go up in the town is not for the ark 's arrival , but for its capture . |
| 8 | It involves putting make up UNDER the skin , using a special probe . |
| 9 | Will he ensure that the police are given the photographs of that demonstration , taken close up by the media ? |
| 10 | To locate START UP within the range of initiatives , to develop an appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of this initiative in comparison to others . |
| 11 | Dass come up with the curtains , they 're down in the Courtesy Cleaners . |
| 12 | Patrick had drown up in the tenements and immediately recognized their peculiar odour — the smell of cabbage and urine , of burnt food and unwashed humanity . |
| 13 | On a wet winter 's day when the sea is at its roughest , the sight of the waves pounding against the bottom of the cliffs , throwing spray up over the top and into the fields , is breathtaking . |
| 14 | Climbline offer up to the minute weather and hill conditions for the major mountain areas of Britain . |