Example sentences of "up [prep] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not a taking up of the old ways , but she had anticipated that for at least part of the evening they would move from professional matters to personal . |
| 2 | Once , he chased a young girl up into the Milky Way . |
| 3 | I have known people to hold a rabbit down with one foot and then , after picking the ferret up in the normal way with their other hand , squeeze the ferret 's foot . |
| 4 | Most experimental studies of sleep now allow subjects a night of acclimatization to laboratory conditions , so that on their first night they are wired up in the usual way , but whatever recordings made are discarded , and the experiments proper begin on the second night . |
| 5 | A bystander at his creation , or rather arriving a few moments after it , would feel justified in assuming that Adam had had a mother , been born and brought up in the usual way , and was in every way like us ; but he would be wrong . |
| 6 | I mean it may be that Ken has not drawn these up in the right way . |
| 7 | Platies and other livebearers do n't pair up in the same way as cichlids do — keeping them in pairs would be a waste of time , as they 're unfussy about which partner they choose to breed with . |
| 8 | ‘ But to suggest that coincidentally this recording , made just a fortnight earlier , was also picked up in the same way does stretch one 's credibility . ’ |
| 9 | The paper back is pasted , and the roll put up in the same way as standard wallpaper . |
| 10 | He has asked for much the same amount of money , divided up in the same way : two-thirds of the money to criminal-enforcement efforts , one-third to treatment . |
| 11 | Larger units of measurements in the metric system , are built up in the same way as the number system , based again on tens and tenths . |
| 12 | The problem is that although the typeface may have the same name — indeed it may even come from the same original — it may not have been coded up in the same way . |
| 13 | It is clear that , in the past , artists who work independently of the West End galleries have not been taken up in the same way as those under the big dealers . |
| 14 | A cartridge pleat heading is made up in the same way as pinch pleats ( page 22 ) , but the bases of the small tubes ( pleats ) are not pinched up but left rounded by filling with a soft stuffing such as wadding . |
| 15 | Once the interlining has been locked in , the two layers of fabric can be treated as one and made up in the same way . |
| 16 | He remembers his lonely school days , in assured manner that his son will not grow up in the same way . |
| 17 | And after closing the door , she still stood and repeated to herself , ‘ Land up in the same way as you did . ’ |
| 18 | The computation involved is complicated , but well within the powers of a small box of modern electronic components wired up in the proper way . |
| 19 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 20 | Trouble was he lived at Selsit , which was up over the Pennine Way , across the high moor , and it meant a three-hour trek there and back . |