Example sentences of "up [coord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its great plug was lifted up or dropped down through a tubular cage of brass , and its brass taps gaped wide as the mouths of sea lions . |
| 2 | At that stage any pressure may be such a test for faith that the believer is faced with a choice : Give up or go back to square one . |
| 3 | One feature of English verse that is scanted by this method , or can be acknowledged only incidentally , is one that every careful reader knows from his or her experience : tempo , the speeding up or slowing down of enunciation , and therefore of apprehension , as we read through a line or through several lines in sequence . |
| 4 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 5 | '68 — jeans either simply rolled up or cut off at required above-boot height — though some were worn instep length by some . |
| 6 | Friends of the Earth water campaigner Linda Stupples said : ‘ The report fails to discuss the real options and blindly assumes the consumer either has to pay up or put up with polluted water . |
| 7 | The worlds they encompass read end to end do n't add up or line up along a single straight trajectory . |
| 8 | Give yourself a massage either standing up or sitting down on a towel . |
| 9 | Maybe when he really got roughed up or stayed out for more than just a few days , Manuel would think about talking things over with the vet , but for now , well , ‘ what 's the hurry , man ? ! ’ |
| 10 | You could dress up or strip down to sports gear , lycra , leather , rubber , jock-straps , uniforms , work gear , torn jeans , boots , socks … |
| 11 | When a phosphate ion binds to such a protein ( this process is called phosphorylation ) the protein changes its shape , curling up or stretching out within the membrane , so as to open or close channels which run across the width of the membrane from the outside to the inside of the cell . |
| 12 | It was not pretty to watch , with the ball often being held up and played back to Cann , but it was effective , and Farnham were ready to strike when their own chance came along . |
| 13 | A minute , two minutes passed ; then I sat up and swung out of bed . |
| 14 | And as the Men broke through into his cage and reached up to grab him , and as another started to throw a net over the hole in the cage above , so Creggan flexed his wings , thrust forward and up and surged out above his friends and the Cages into the wild forbidding sky , and freedom . |
| 15 | Such generative practices structured my early experience , and built a constructed hierarchy of ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ which was set up and passed on to all initiates . |
| 16 | Er in the morning he would be in before any of them , sort of thing , getting a fire lit getting the rivets heat up before they come on the job and ah the the quicker he could the the rivets heat up and passed on to the the squad , then okay the more they could put in so , if he were a good rivet boy you could maybe get a good wage , but again that was up to the squad up to the riveter . |
| 17 | Barnard considered that the energy introduced into the homoeopathic potency during the succussion process stabilized the arrangement of the water polymers and that it was these shape-specific polymers which were built up and passed on from one potency to the next . |
| 18 | Then , standing up and leaning back into the shadow , she flung the jharo with all the strength she possessed across the border of flowers and into the dark pool of space beyond the firelit roof . |
| 19 | We actually got the rigging up and sailed around for a while in twos — I was with my brother and I thought we managed quite well . |
| 20 | I think about it for a bit , then I get up and go over to the shops . |
| 21 | I get up and go over to him . |
| 22 | And it used to all add up and go in on Friday , after I 'd got , got everything sorted out , go in on Friday , and get all this bumf and go to a desk , my desk , and I 'd put it down , get a bin , right , a cup of coffee , loosen your tie and start wading through it . |
| 23 | We have been asked to give that up and to go over to the European Community system , with the European Court and majority voting — the shoe is pinching all the time . |
| 24 | Slowly Jack stood up and looked down at Ho . |
| 25 | She stood up and looked down at him . |
| 26 | Jenna sat up and looked down at him eagerly . |
| 27 | Describing the arrest , she said : ‘ We got up and looked out of the window , and saw police were gathering by the minute — loads of them with rifles and guns — and we got quite frightened . |
| 28 | Between whiles she got up and looked out of the window , watching the pale sunshine come and go on the elaborate mouldings and cornices of the offices on the opposite side of Hand and Ball Court , until she realized she was being watched from a window of the floor above by two young men in shirtsleeves . |
| 29 | His master got up and looked out of the window . |
| 30 | Tom stood up and looked out at the freshly-weeded graveyard . |