Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I run one of the self-help groups that one of the ladies mentioned and we looked at an outsize catalogue recently and it went up to size twenty six and in some cases up to a size thirty and the ladies who modelled the clothes were no bigger than a twelve , possibly a fourteen , but a very shapely fourteen ! |
| 2 | They may have gone down the medium wave dial from 10.17 to 8.55 , but their new premises in Ludlow is more than a few steps up from the barn . |
| 3 | Sometimes the youngsters flew a few feet up into the air to take the offering — to return immediately to the safety of the wire . |
| 4 | Freddie took my few belongings up to the garret where I was to sleep and spend most of my time until the baby was born . |
| 5 | ‘ Despite several rests ranging from a few days up to a whole week , I could n't shake off the injury and it just got worse . |
| 6 | Okay perhaps we can er er wrap a few things up on the erm on the er Vienna er settlement and the congress system itself . |
| 7 | This is , for instance , why sensible Czech politicians support the idea which came from the Slovak National Council that the federation should be based on two strong national republics which will delegate some powers up to the federal government and not vice-versa . |
| 8 | No peering at various heights to see what my ‘ eye ’ can manage to ‘ see ’ … but a really close examination , even to holding some paintings up to a better light when required . |
| 9 | Indeed , he and his mates had driven to a house in East Belfast straight from the fracas , to try and tee some pals up for a quick retaliation . |
| 10 | Got some friends up for the ride . |
| 11 | Let's fly a kite or blow some bubbles up into the sky . |
| 12 | Her background was a few rungs up from the Jenkinses and that elementary social fact helped to give her a poise in the face of his ever-increasing sureness . |
| 13 | But anyway we had this one projector which I had winkled out of this friend of mine , and we stuck it up on a couple of stools and hung some sheets up behind the corner of the room which served as a stage , and with some incense burning in the corner an atmosphere was created . |
| 14 | Then a few soldiers up at the goods store fired into their own men . ’ |
| 15 | The case studies they produce later form part of the curriculum at Crotonville , the company 's management-development school a few miles up on the Hudson river from New York . |
| 16 | The normal rules apply where applications do not have this effect although there may be a good argument for transferring such cases up to the High Court . |
| 17 | Where the ophthalmic optician subsequently prescribes special corrective appliances solely to correct vision defects at the viewing distances used specifically for the display screen work concerned , and where normal corrective appliances ( ie those prescribed for any other purposes ) can not be used , during this interim period , a Head of Department will refund such costs up to a maximum of £50 . |
| 18 | I think we 're gon na have to put these vegetables up on a up higher . |
| 19 | Look these words up in the Oxford English Dictionary ( complete version , not the compact or shorter version ) ; in Brewer 's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ; in the Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature ; in the Encyclopedia Brittanica ; and in whichever other relevant reference sources are available to you . |
| 20 | Cos I 've got to take these kids up for a bath soon er er you can stay |
| 21 | So if these beggars up at the top it was had been er thought out had a break well er it was alri =right for the others working down in the bottom to have a a break . |
| 22 | Right and and by putting these prices up on the lancer and that I was actually clawing a couple of thousand pound back off them . |
| 23 | And then join the join these points up to the centre . |
| 24 | Figure 9–11 illustrates the relationship between earned and disposable income described by these schemes up to the break-even point , where . |
| 25 | These ones up in the town , did the boatmen used to have to go up the town to find |
| 26 | Like everyone else , like you yourself , I had seen Caduta many times up on the big screen , in costume dramas , musicals , Italian sex comedies , Mexican westerns . |
| 27 | At all courts up to the present we have been received with extraordinary courtesy . |
| 28 | Pillow lavas have been identified in some of the oldest rocks on earth , over 3,400 million years old , and in rocks of all ages up to the present . |
| 29 | The vast majority of teachers are working extremely hard to achieve good results under the national curriculum and our aim is to get all schools up to the standards of the best . |
| 30 | NATO insisted on placing a limit of 275,000 each on US and Soviet personnel only , while the Warsaw Pact wished to include foreign deployments by all countries up to a maximum of 300,000 each by NATO and the Warsaw Pact . |