Example sentences of "up [prep] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of RE is to help them genuinely to reflect upon religion , opening up for them the possibility of a self-chosen and real commitment , religious or otherwise , so that the individual can freely play his or her role in the wider community , whether this be the faith community or society as a whole . |
| 2 | The ad people know that girls are watching and that they can attract them and form their ideas by making the girl associate their product with a particular image — so that when she is looking at a hair gel in a chemist 's , that will conjure up for her the image of the model used to advertise it , and make her want to look that way herself , and want to buy it . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know anyone else would stick up for me the way you do . ’ |
| 4 | You conjured up for me the legions of the unborn , and I found them as grisly a sight as the legions of the dead . |
| 5 | There had been , for one thing , enormous population growth I 'll put the figures up for you The population had roughly trebled er between seventeen hundred and eighteen fifty and then , in the period we 're primarily concerned with here , the hundred years from eighteen fifty to nineteen fifty have increased from four hundred and thirty million up to five hundred and eighty million . |
| 6 | Counsel conjured up for us the picture of the accused person , after a gruelling day in court , returning to the cells to be met with the sight of an official of the Serious Fraud Office , armed with a further batch of questions , which he would be forced to answer on pain of being prosecuted for another offence . |
| 7 | If the job is a newly created one then clear guidelines should be drawn up of what the candidate will be expected to do , what qualifications , skills , abilities and personal qualities they will need . |
| 8 | You may say that it is refutable and so it is empirical ; but then — see below — our criteria for cognisance are so much bound up with what the subject can do that it is difficult to see how we could assess the cognisance of a totally passive creature . ) |
| 9 | When she caught up with him the bombshell came . |
| 10 | This may result in a product specification being drawn up in which the sales engineers may have an influence . |
| 11 | When the marquis came up to her the ghost fled . |
| 12 | A generation of Tibetans has grown up to whom the Dalai Lama , who since 1959 has lived in India , is a remote figure . |
| 13 | After 1870 education for the Poles was seen as a way of bringing them within the German order , of lightening their Slav darkness by opening up to them the world of ‘ civilisation ’ . |
| 14 | Paintwork supplied by International for all ten yachts survived the voyage in remarkably good condition , standing up to everything the oceans could throw at it . |
| 15 | Well , i i if I , the , on one of the comments I 'd make is that it 's the only time I 've ever known the accounting profession to do businessmen a favour by forcing them to face up to what the costs of the consequences of their actions are and this has as James said led to looking quite carefully and I think it 's difficult to quantify the cost at the moment for a variety of reasons . |
| 16 | So presumably either Pickerage was lying about his date with Hilary Frome , or the pair had been up to something the whole of Sunday . |
| 17 | When she looked up at him the year just passed faded away like an unpleasant dream . |