Example sentences of "[noun pl] up [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | *****900 WORDS UP TO THIS POINT — THE 300 BELOW CAN BE DISCARDED IF NECESSARY |
| 2 | They used to say , well I try and get my er my legs up for half an hour in the afternoon , but that 'd be about as much as th they 'd get in the way of rest . |
| 3 | The hardware choice is actually simple : standard IBM AT clones from several dozen different manufacturers are now powerful enough to handle mailing lists up to several hundred thousand addresses . |
| 4 | The building had two front doors , side by side , one for each house , and the steps up to each door were not divided ; an urn full of some kind of greenery stood in the middle of the steps , but there was no attempt at distinction . |
| 5 | Well like , for example , we have excellent educational psychologists in Oxfordshire and erm we have advisers for children with special needs in Oxfordshire , and they are extremely useful people in helping out those many children who are not like the average run of children and have specific and particular problems , and I was very fearful that eventually an opted out school might turn its noses up at such children , and I think they needed protection , so that 's one example . |
| 6 | The analysis of the French fabliaux up to this point has included recurrent references to the roles of readers and writers involved with these texts . |
| 7 | There were no lifts lifting the cars up at that time . |
| 8 | The maths that you do ties up in some way with usually ties up with reality there 's some reason for it . |
| 9 | The high-rise hype blew up in our faces , with the demolition of tower blocks in London and Merseyside appearing as slow-motion spectaculars on television , hundreds of homes up for less than a lifetime now squandered . |
| 10 | Ideally , as the names imply , a low-pass filter passes signals up to some limiting frequency but not above it , a high-pass filter passes signals down to some limiting frequency but not below it , a band-pass filter passes signals over a range of frequencies but not outside it and a band-stop filter only passes signals outside a range of frequencies . |
| 11 | ‘ Put your feet up on that , ’ he ordered . |
| 12 | The weather was so vile most of the time , and John so busy that we had quite a contented and simple domestic time , John whizzing away at the computer and me in the ( cane ) rocking chair with my feet up on another reading away . |
| 13 | Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes . |
| 14 | Now on that twenty feet long , now I 'm up about say , you can say anything like about fifteen feet up in the in the air , might be less than that and then you got twenty feet up like that , well then there used to be wire and used to have a big wheel in top , which you could n't go over the top and with a wire , then I used to have a sling chain , my main hook and that was thirteen foot long and you take th that and on , on working on top of the lorry , see you got to be so careful and there 's men working on that lorry as well , course I broke the wheel . |
| 15 | Well they have smoking areas up in those |
| 16 | My movements up to this had been quite natural , and if I could continue to make her think I was unaware of her presence , she would possibly give me a second chance . |
| 17 | It may take the form of some sort of duty tax which will bring the price of the imports up to that of our suppliers . ’ |
| 18 | It may take the form of some sort of duty tax which will bring the price of the imports up to that of our suppliers . ’ |
| 19 | You know how Kissinger 's policy lines up with that of Russia as regards Southern Africa and particularly Rhodesia . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm going to bed , Emily , ’ he said , his voice slurred , ‘ I do n't think I 'll bother to go to my office tomorrow , it would only be in order to wind matters up in any case . ’ |
| 21 | Bartlett was particularly concerned with stories , and in his method of serial reproduction people re-told the same story at varying intervals up to several months after it was presented . |
| 22 | Being published , originally , in 1655–73 it is of the greatest importance in connection with ecclesiastical buildings up to that time . |
| 23 | Clearly this analysis will only give the performance of corresponding practical circuits up to some critical frequency beyond which their response will be influenced by the significant departure of the operational amplifier from ideal behaviour . |
| 24 | Cracks up to half an inch thick are the unmistakeable signs of subsidence . |
| 25 | The gold is associated with massive SW-NE trending quartz veins up to several metres wide and several kilometres long . |
| 26 | Although you will not be able to take your puppy out for a walk in public places until it has completed its course of inoculation , at about 12 weeks old , the intervening weeks up to this point will be useful in familiarizing the dog with walking on a leash . |
| 27 | They were all too aware of the renewed public campaign for further film censorship but their only response to that was to deplore Hollywood 's all too obviously hasty attempt to wrap its gangster and other city films up in some kind of moral message . |
| 28 | Costs follow the event on the hearing of the preliminary issue so that a plaintiff who gets judgment on a preliminary trial of the liability issue will be entitled to his costs up to that point straight away , which is an advantage over simply getting an interim payment . |
| 29 | Following the announcement , the issue got the thumbs up from several City commentators . |
| 30 | HM Inspectorate are not in a position to follow such discussions up with any kind of sustained support . |