Example sentences of "[noun sg] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a hearth to comfort her , a homeland up ahead beyond the lonely journey in the tunnels of claustrophobia beneath the surface of the Moon . |
| 2 | She had been crying again and her mascara had been washed away and she looked like an eleven-year-old waking up in hospital after an operation . |
| 3 | I always look forward to his waking up , he looks so antediluvian he makes me feel only a girl again . |
| 4 | D'Angelo also relates the example of corporate America waking up to the belated realisation that what has become known as ‘ the pink economy ’ represents significant purchasing power . |
| 5 | I 'll go along with some radical improvement to the turbo-ram-jet engine concept ; perhaps a boost in top speed up to Mach 3.5 , even 4 at a stretch of the imagination . |
| 6 | So , if you 've got a mouse you could actually help speed up a lot of this editing but , I said , I 've not written in the mouse commands into this schedule because we did n't actually have mice on all work stations when this was written . |
| 7 | It is worth noting that many of the current imagesetting systems also offer a ‘ proofing ’ resolution of less than 1,000dpi — Linotype 's Linotronic 300 , for example , offers 635dpi — and it is interesting to speculate just how much material is output at this resolution to keep the throughput speed up . |
| 8 | The S3 graphics co-processor and its associated chipset is justly acknowledged to be more than useful for speeding up Windows graphics , offloading much of the graphics work from the CPU as it does , and the speed up with a variety of tasks under Windows and applications is very noticeable . |
| 9 | I know there have been a number of accidents in that area but I would hope with all these other traffic calming measures we could have kept that speed up to forty miles an hour . |
| 10 | The reasons towards this sh erm the reason why that you had the rise in er absolute egalitarianism was that the Communist Party thought that they 'd be able to keep the speed up for the process of land reform . |
| 11 | lets turn the speed up now and head for Silverstone which this weekend staged the biggest kart meeting of the year … four hundred drivers … the best in the world were there … along with our man Mark Kiff |
| 12 | I think the speed up |
| 13 | A quick glance up and down the wharf showed no sign of Cliff Barrett . |
| 14 | With a quick nervous glance up and down the road , she stepped into the house and closed the door . |
| 15 | The Doctor cast a dark glance up at the innocently circling drone . |
| 16 | As she risked a glance up at Roman 's dark face , her heart seemed to plummet down to her stomach . |
| 17 | He wants to come in , but a glance up to the bridge tells me he expects a vast crowd to appear out of nowhere , the minute he strips naked . |
| 18 | Guy led Chalon back on to the road , casting another searching glance up at Isabel 's closed face . |
| 19 | The beginnings of a smile lurked deep in his eyes , setting Isabel 's heart racing when she ventured a glance up at him . |
| 20 | Laura had agreed while casting a wry glance up at the roof , on which she had just spent many thousands of pounds . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I never ! ’ said Aunt Bedelia stalking off with her skirt up over her head showing her fleecy-lined Directoire knickers . |
| 22 | I pulled my skirt up a little but he said he 'd have to see higher than that to make sure my legs were n't bowed at the knees so I did as I was told . |
| 23 | Then suddenly she became aware of how inelegant she must look , sprawled there with her skirt up around her hips and her bra dangling out of her open blouse . |
| 24 | He pushed her against a tree and began pulling her skirt up over her knees . |
| 25 | ‘ You and your Private Nobody , ’ said Dolly , and pulled her skirt up , saucily unveiling her white petticoat with its foamy lace and pink ribbons . |
| 26 | One thin , ring-studded hand held the skirt up at the front but the back went trail , trail , trail on the ground , sweeping up wisps of hay with the feathers . |
| 27 | As the film progressed , he gradually began to hitch her skirt up , so that his hand was resting not upon skirt but upon stocking , and then his hand began to creep up the stocking . |
| 28 | She held the sage green lace with its swirling skirt up against her . |
| 29 | He had pulled the band of material that passed for a skirt up around her waist and was tugging at the top of her tights . |
| 30 | She felt him flip the short skirt up at the back , and jerk her knickers down to her knees . |