Example sentences of "[be] [verb] right up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what they do , I 'm going to try and show you on this doll in a minute , the hips are abducted which means they 're brought right up against the chest and then they 're pulled round and they 're rotated in the socket and you feel and listen for a click |
| 2 | The PSC in Gazankulu also needs to negotiate with the Lebowa authorities and information has to be disseminated right up to the village authority level — the chiefs and their councils . |
| 3 | The square shape becomes a virtue , as the blade can be taken right up to a wall or back of a cupboard . |
| 4 | An extension microphone can be taken right up to the source of the wanted sound and kept well away from camcorder operating noise . |
| 5 | The crops were stacked right up to the roof ridge , or close to it , so using almost all the roof space . |
| 6 | Funny thing was they had no gardens and were built right up against the old City Rampart . |
| 7 | Hence the weedkiller train could not be put into the loop and had to remain on the main line , being put right up to the buffer stop because a passenger train was due . |
| 8 | The local army base , a corrugated fortress with a spindly camera tower , is pressed right up against a primary school . |
| 9 | This waistcoat had flap-pockets and reached down almost to the knees : it was fastened right up to the neck with horse-shoe buttons , leaving just enough space for the red-spotted muffler or wrapper to be seen underneath . |
| 10 | It split the glass , entered the left closed eye , and was buried right up to the hilt . |
| 11 | ‘ It was Lying right up on the shoal . ’ |
| 12 | On the far side of the pond was the old ford and Mum used to tell us that this was the route to the city taken by carts before the building of the old Harnham Bridge in the fourteenth century , although I expect it was used right up to the advent of the motor car . |
| 13 | Her initial plan was to run right up to the birth , but on her doctor 's advice she stopped four months into the pregnancy . |
| 14 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 15 | It also had one of the longest lives as it was working right up to the late 1940s . |