Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the tax is not based on where people live , how will the money eventually end up with the local authority in which they live ? |
| 2 | A rough scramble alongside leads up into the upper reaches of the beck ; here is an untidy tumble of boulders fallen from the enclosing heights but there is one gem where , just above the waterfall , the stream slides smoothly over an immense slab of naked limestone . |
| 3 | When the adventurers are halfway across the room four foul , mutated forms suddenly spring up from the corpses and attack . |
| 4 | The car hummed nearer as the view to one side slowly opened up through the dunes to reveal the shining beach and blue-green ocean . |
| 5 | Its satisfactions are of their own kind , though they are satisfactions intimately bound up with the life of each individual reader , and therefore not without their bearing on his attitude to life . |
| 6 | In the end she made the decision to combine Episodes Three and Four together , losing one whole episode entirely to tighten up on the drama . |
| 7 | Why it should suddenly be important to prove this to a number of people that she had n't even met , she did n't stop to question , and she firmly suppressed a naggingly persistent image of Tom Russell and Marise Wyspianski last Saturday all dressed up for the annual Christmas ball given by the Coronation Hospital board . |
| 8 | ‘ Look , ’ Forester said urgently , and Carson could imagine his knuckles going white as he gripped the payphone receiver hard in an attempt to get his point across , ‘ my chance at having a kid 's been ruined , and the police and the government have got their heads together to cover up for the killer . ’ |
| 9 | The Bishop of Dorchester all dressed up behind the beer pumps at his local giving a blessing and then leading the congregation in the Lord 's prayer . |
| 10 | ‘ A couple of years ago the kids who had been on the trip from Bawnmore just turned up at the self-help group premises and wanted to see the friends they had made on the holiday again , ’ Adree said . |
| 11 | TYCOON Richard Branson yesterday came up with the Christmas present for the person who has everything — the chance to pilot a jumbo jet . |
| 12 | Animals still travel up to the high pastures , but today the migration is by truck , and not on foot . |
| 13 | Unfortunately for Glanvil , many ghost stories are faked ; and investigators of the psychic phenomena of two centuries later came up against the same problem . |
| 14 | Presently a governor of two Suffolk schools , the task is increasingly time consuming , responsible , unpaid and costly in terms of petrol consumed ( no travel expenses paid ) , but still rewarding in terms of relationships within the schools carefully built up over the years . |
| 15 | Highly-viscous lavas are always concerned in Peleean eruptions ; as we saw earlier , a dome or plug of lava often builds up within the crater concerned , blocking the throat of the volcano , so that the pressures building up beneath can only be relieved by vigorous explosions , which may be directed either upwards or sideways , blasting out as nuees ardentes . |
| 16 | These myths mostly trace to his own misleading reminiscences later in life , and have been relentlessly reaffirmed since , at the 1959 centennial symposia for example and in the 1978 BBC-TV series on Darwin ; but they are nonetheless discredited by the scholarly industry now grown up around the rich manuscript archive from Darwin 's early years ( Kohn , 1986 ) . |
| 17 | They need a good result tomorrow to keep up with the promotion chase . |
| 18 | From where she stood on the gravelled forecourt , she saw that the flight of steps ahead led up to the living accommodation at the higher level , no doubt to exploit the panoramic view , while below , built into the slope , were the garages and stores . |
| 19 | During the summer months I can usually get away with leaving my boat conveniently tied up to the pier , but only if I am at home to keep an eye on the weather : in Shetland , even in summer , a gale can blow up from the south east , causing a swell to set into the voe . |
| 20 | As I pointed out in the last chapter , working-class attachment to institutional religion never picked up from the moment that peasants moved off the land and became urbanised . |
| 21 | This chapter has portrayed the implementation process as a complex one , in many respects inextricably bound up with the policy-making process . |
| 22 | These funny-looking blokes just turned up on the doorstep with rolls of carpet over their shoulders asking if we wanted to buy them . |
| 23 | Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader : |
| 24 | The campaign showed few issues and , with the Conservatives overwhelmingly backed up in the popular press , was wholly one-sided . |
| 25 | At this time most of them were minor landowners , but they were of gentle descent , and although John of Faircross , son and heir of the ironmaster , styled himself yeoman all his life , his descendants eventually moved up into the gentry . |
| 26 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 27 | And she was reported to have er have said when they when they took her out , that there would be nothing nothing grow on the site of the house but runcho And I do n't know the they were awful hungry for land in that day you ken and there was quite , there was more than one occasion there was old folk just putting up with the house just to get the land that it stood on . |
| 28 | Bath also had a resident gem-cutter , whose collection of 34 unmounted intaglios somehow ended up in the main drain carrying the overflow from the reservoir housing the hot spring . |
| 29 | If he just suddenly hits me without warning , thought Bob , I shall almost certainly go straight over backwards with my feet still caught up in the bar-stool , and split my skull open on the floor . |
| 30 | Hiding gaps at edges : Unsightly gaps often open up round the perimeter of the room , between the skirting and the floorboards , caused by movement in the timbers . |