Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She begs her sister to go up to the top of the tower of the castle and look out for them , and keeps calling out to her , ‘ Anne , sister Anne , dost thou see nothing coming ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Do I have your permission to go up to the belvedere and look around ? ’ |
| 3 | And thirdly increasing emphasis , not on the socialist politics of the Communist Party in the nineteen twenties , but on the development of a nationalist ideology which could appeal to all classes in Chinese society who were interested in getting the Japanese out and who were angered by the Kuomintang government 's inability to stand up to the Japanese . |
| 4 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
| 5 | If the Council did a good deal to catch up with the agenda of the Council of Trent , it did rather little to face the real agenda confronting the whole human and Christian community in the last decades of this century . |
| 6 | One sequence , filmed in Maidenhead , showed Crawford , dressed up in a fireman 's uniform , peddling furiously on a bike in an attempt to catch up with the engine . |
| 7 | It can be a pig to set up in the most efficient way as regards memory , because it can use a tremendous amount of the base 640k of a PC . |
| 8 | Extrinsic feedback is provided by the teacher in the form of information about the success or failure of the practice to match up to the standard performance . |
| 9 | At first light the Commandos are on the move again in an attempt to keep up with the retreating enemy . |
| 10 | The pub has made no attempt to keep up with the times … no karaoke here … just conversation . |
| 11 | Ruari and Ranald normally lazed about , cut peat , or borrowed a boat and rowed out to do a bit fishing to stock up for the winter , while Luch did her usual tasks and her usual check on the baby — the babies , now — in the bower . |
| 12 | He sets a high moral tone , exhorting the journalist to live up to the ideals of truth , decency and justice against the crasser world outside . |
| 13 | This mother has forced her tot to face up to the ordeal of withdrawal symptoms because she could n't control her own habit . |
| 14 | battery wrote in his journal during the peak of the March battle on the Right Bank ; ‘ the fine weather continues , the days lengthen ; it is a pleasure to get up in the morning … ’ |
| 15 | John Matthias brought the filly with a customary late surge to get up on the line to beat Zadracarta , the Canadian challenger , a head . |
| 16 | Central government had encouraged new towns with light industry to spring up in the valleys but the impact of these industries as an employer of part-time farmers had been very low . |
| 17 | There is a choice of either black or multi-colour stretch fabric to team up with the Jarol yarn colours ! |
| 18 | KENNY Dalglish is poised to bring in a Danish defender to make up for the disappointment of losing £2.5 million Craig Short . |
| 19 | Garrett 's decision to set up in the business of metal detector manufacture was a brave one for there were in his immediate locale several rival ‘ cottage industries ’ vying to capture a share of the young and burgeoning market . |
| 20 | So that when we have the thing that he calls an annual review and I call a pain in the neck , I do n't actually have to put in very much work to come up with the fact that no , I 'm not going to give him a salary increase , erm , because I have his , his performance , you know , already researched throughout the year . |
| 21 | The change involved the production of a protective ‘ skin ’ to ensure that water loss to the atmosphere was not excessive , and the stems had to acquire sufficient rigidity to stand up without the support of surrounding water , but also the cellular structure had to allow the passage of nutrients to the growing shoots ( ultimately , a vascular system ) . |
| 22 | He was the first commoner to stand up to the might of the king . |
| 23 | Entry is normally open to all who can demonstrate a capacity to keep up with the courses and to benefit from such study , regardless of age or background . |
| 24 | ‘ The point is , ’ said Dyson , thumping the car down into second to slow up at the traffic lights , ‘ a journalist ought to be specializing by the time he 's forty . |
| 25 | Such was the organisers ' strong determination to live up to the movie image of English life , they even laid on a scatty vicar wearing a panama hat to serve tea and sandwiches at the finish . |
| 26 | He had n't expected a trip down to his daughter 's for lunch to end up in the middle of Exmoor . |
| 27 | You need to be in a strong mood to face up to the unvarnished realism of these performances but , once entered into , they are absolutely gripping . |
| 28 | recent years by the introduction of the statutory right for any council to spend up to the product of a 2p rate on any matter which the council itself considers is for the benefit of the area or part of the area , or all or some of the inhabitants . |
| 29 | In America the war was not much more decisive than its predecessor , but British successes in Europe and claims to compensation to make up for the fact that the Bourbons had secured the Spanish throne meant that Britain kept her gains instead of returning them as she had done in 1697 . |
| 30 | By the time she had got her cases up to the guest room , made the bed up and sorted out her food supplies it was beginning to get dark and , although she had a burning desire to go up to the studio , caution prevailed . |