Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They halted on a rocky ridge where heather poked up through gaps in the stones , and looked back to see Ralarth a green patch below them . |
| 2 | Water passes up through gravel to the media . |
| 3 | For lack of sufficient central funds the rudimentary basis of a welfare state was being set up through contributions from the workers ' own meagre wages . |
| 4 | In the old days there was no physical access from the running lines to Govan car sheds and workshops , so stock was only brought out of the tunnels for repair and maintenance , which necessitated lifting the vehicles bodily off the track and up through pits into the workshops by means of a large overhead crane . |
| 5 | Morse , hitherto that day most remarkably under-beered , made his way up through Cornmarket to the Chapters Bar of The Randolph . |
| 6 | This is the first of Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki 's films to open here , but not the last : two more are lining up for release in the next six months . |
| 7 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 8 | But nothing will ever make up for Amar for the total loss of mother , father , entire family , house and everything . |
| 9 | Both England stars started their careers at Acklam Park , Middlesbrough , and youngsters , aged nine to 14 , can now learn to run with the ball and line up for line-outs with the Rugby Union course on the same turf . |
| 10 | Ruddy mortals , crouching and crawling around the under-carriage , they can look up for inspiration to the immaculate lives portrayed high on the walls of the workshop , to those models of determination and robust heroism familiar to all Soviet citizens : Riveters and Liberators , Welders and Flag-bearers , beaming Foundry-women with goggles thrown back on their brows like aviators from the Great Patriotic War . |
| 11 | It had been owned by the Turner family , and my aunt 's builder husband had bought it from them and was turning it into an apartment house when he was called up for service with the Army . |
| 12 | I also remember , incidentally , the first letter that I had to erm type , a young chap who was erm shortly called up for service in the Army came in and erm dictated a little letter to me to see how erm , how I got on and erm it was a letter to parents in Halesworth whose daughter had just been er transferred to a grammar school and erm in those days of course the , if the distance was more than three miles the Education Committee er provided a cycle and cape and leggings and erm the object of the letter was to find out the child 's inside leg measurement |
| 13 | Most of the Kabye living in Lomé had been rounded up for protection by the army , saying their houses had been ransacked by the Ewes . |
| 14 | A memorandum was drawn up for presentation to the November 1990 Helsinki ( Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe ) conference on the environment . |
| 15 | No amount of brilliance can make up for knowledge of the idiom of the field . |
| 16 | Emily Lightbody had not turned up for work since the preceding Friday , a rare occurrence in all her thirty years of service . |
| 17 | He shook hands with scores of clerks , cooks and cleaners who had overcome feelings of revulsion and fear to turn up for work after the brutal and ghastly murder of their friend and colleague , who had been chained to a 1,000lb bomb . |
| 18 | You 're the , you 're the driver and you 've got to get up for work in the morning and everything else . |
| 19 | It would perhaps be unusual for expulsion to follow as a matter of course under this head without some discussion with the invalid to see whether other arrangements might be made and the real object of including this as a ground for expulsion is to remove doubt on all sides as to when such delicate matters are liable to be brought up for discussion in the context of early retirement . |
| 20 | From the old man , you see he 'd always been an old I L P man and er I remember when Harris put up for parliament in the Rushcliffe division . |
| 21 | Entry is free and there is £100 up for grabs with the overall winner receiving the Roy Tongue Cup . |
| 22 | Prizes of tickets for transatlantic flights , provided by Air Canada Vacations , are up for grabs for the top fundraisers . |
| 23 | Places are up for grabs for the Solheim cup challenge against the USA , the ladies equivalent of the Ryder Cup . |
| 24 | • MORE than £1,000 in prizes is up for grabs in the British All-comers Championships at Tynemouth this Sunday , February 17 . |
| 25 | Setting his sights on the lucrative prizes up for grabs in the Daily Mirror/Manx Airlines sponsored event is classy Kenyan Jimmy Muindi , the current World Junior steeplechase champion . |
| 26 | THERE are two prize fishing holidays up for grabs in the Echo 's Catch of the Season competition . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , places in the North-East team for the Inter Counties Championships at Corby on Monday week will be up for grabs in the North-Easterns tonight , tomorrow and Sunday . |
| 28 | Miranda hardly ever got up for breakfast at the weekends , but on Miles ' first morning she appeared punctually at half past eight . |
| 29 | An Italian , Gionesca , was absent from parade one morning as we lined up for inspection by the Sergeant-Major ; Corporal Herve , a scarred Frenchman who had taken over from Vigno as duty NCO , went upstairs to find him . |
| 30 | The Youth Club of the Paris Commune as it was officially known , or the ‘ Paree ’ as its more irreverent members called it , was a gimcrack affair , cracked concrete and cheap plastic panels , tucked beside the inevitable block of flats , and a health centre , but it was well equipped : table tennis , television , a library , a concert room , a rather more substantial annexe for weight lifting , a hall which doubled up for meetings of the Free German Youth and dancing , and a comfortable lounge where one could buy coffee and soft drinks . |