Example sentences of "up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Donald was bracing himself to take the weight of the heavier outer door and Donald McLaggan was helping him , easing it up off its hinges . |
| 2 | In the bronze medal fight against Axel Lobenstein , of East Germany , White appeared to start with more aggressive determination , but his attacks were way off target and he was thrown for a yuko ( five points ) as he got up off the ground . |
| 3 | I see the way the snow is kicked up off the paws of the dogs , the way their breath explodes around their heads . |
| 4 | Films such as The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ) , where a psychologist 's efforts to reform the mugger he 's picked up off the street are subverted by his own drives and the desires of his wife , The Criminal ( 1960 , The Concrete Jungle in US ) , in which Stanley Baker plays a loner trapped between the violent prison system and the criminal underworld , or The Servant ( 1963 ) , in which butler is pitched against master , focus on tensions in British society much more interesting than anything opened up by Anderson 's contemporaries . |
| 5 | Terry Venables was left picking his side up off the floor . |
| 6 | Terry Venables was left picking his players up off the floor after Tranmere , who have not lost at Prenton Park in 12 months , achieved a worthy draw against their lofty visitors . |
| 7 | She picked his anorak up off the floor and stood there with it over her arm , leaning against his chair . |
| 8 | His Mum got up off his bed and went and opened his cupboard . |
| 9 | ‘ There is no need to be ashamed , ’ he said to himself , getting up off the bed and making his way to the door to see what his native Forest looked like in daylight and to see what sort of world it was where a man could be free and alone and full of shame . |
| 10 | I thought I 'd picked it up off a clean pile , but I was mistaken . |
| 11 | Carlie lifted her hair up off her neck . |
| 12 | He picked the clothes up off the floor and put them away in the wardrobe , and found the President a clean pair of slacks and a shirt before sweeping up the broken glass . |
| 13 | An old woman gutting hens told him , ‘ That 's the lass took Marion Aluinn , bad cess to her , up off the shore yesterday ! |
| 14 | Carefully they cut round the base with a knife , to free any wax that was sealing it down , and eased the skep up off the base stone . |
| 15 | Then he knocks it up off the Road to about nine inches for a 4 . |
| 16 | Still in a larky mood , she began to lift her daughter up off the floor . |
| 17 | I picked it up off the Manchester lads in our regiment . |
| 18 | She pulled Midnight 's head up off the grass , gathered him together and drew him delicately on to the garden path . |
| 19 | He picked the hat up off the floor and put it on his own head . |
| 20 | ( Wringing her apron in mock indignation ) That 's the third time this week I 've picked his Good polyester-dacron trousers up off the floor and Hung them up in their crease . |
| 21 | It is very difficult to keep your hair up off your collar if you are afflicted with a short neck . |
| 22 | A French galley will pick her up off the coast of the Forth and take her out to the sea where other ships are waiting to escort her back to France . |
| 23 | It felt like Checkpoint Charlie , but in fact no one tried to stop you except the alkies lurching up off their piss-stained benches with some story about needing the bus fare back home to Sheffield . |
| 24 | A luxury cabin cruiser blew up off the coast of Italy . |
| 25 | But the new West Indies proved encouragingly resilient , repeatedly getting up off the canvas to deliver the final knockout punch . |
| 26 | Anton stumbled back , but Parker , now on his knees , as a terrible need , his big bald gleaming head — his wig had flown — crashing , crushing in on him ; all of his mass , so that , the sheer weight of it , a fierce momentum , found Anton up off his feet and dumped inside a cubicle . |
| 27 | As he was bending down to pick the post up off the mat he felt a cold hand on his exposed backside — little suspecting that it was the family dog giving him a friendly greeting . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She is a stiff bundle of rags , arching this way and that , legs clamped together against his knees ' efforts to prise them apart , arms straining him back up off her body . |
| 30 | So it was more convenient to raise the body up off the ground and sprint for short lengths on the rear legs with the tail , now much thicker and longer , acting as a counter-weight . |