Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Air India plane that blew up off Ireland in 1985 , with 329 people killed , had been targeted by men trained in a paramilitary camp . |
| 2 | Within quite a short time great rivalries grew up between students of different styles . |
| 3 | The action took her by surprise , and at first she told herself to remain calm and to take the kiss in the spirit it was being given , which was merely a making up between friends after cross words . |
| 4 | Despite the hour , he got replies immediately , and was transferred up through systems without delay . |
| 5 | The difference might be made up through charges to local councils for taking their rubbish away . |
| 6 | I draw his attention to the fact that a private consortium , the Central Railway Group , is proposing to build a private line on the old great central railway from the channel tunnel up through Buckinghamshire to Leicester . |
| 7 | the road leads on up through layers of eucalyptus trees into the pine forest to Poiso , a major road junction with a good restaurant . |
| 8 | After a while he rolled from her and lay there , staring up through layers of darkness at the dim , coiled shape of dragons in the ceiling mosaic , thinking of the boy . |
| 9 | They halted on a rocky ridge where heather poked up through gaps in the stones , and looked back to see Ralarth a green patch below them . |
| 10 | In natural first language acquisition , the child , growing up through involvement in naturally recurrent events , learns about the world through language and concomitantly learns language through an engagement with the world . |
| 11 | As David watches events that can never take place again , such as the Woodbrook dance , and observes the cloaked distress of the family at their growing impecuniousness , he falls deeper and deeper in love with Phoebe , his Venus rising up through adolescence into womanhood . |
| 12 | His parents were indignant when they discovered about it and he gave it up through respect for their views . |
| 13 | Water passes up through gravel to the media . |
| 14 | For lack of sufficient central funds the rudimentary basis of a welfare state was being set up through contributions from the workers ' own meagre wages . |
| 15 | In the old days there was no physical access from the running lines to Govan car sheds and workshops , so stock was only brought out of the tunnels for repair and maintenance , which necessitated lifting the vehicles bodily off the track and up through pits into the workshops by means of a large overhead crane . |
| 16 | Dating has obviously become extremely inaccurate by this level compared with the precision higher up the stratigraphical column , but presumed late Precambrian glacial deposits extend from the west of Ireland up through the Highlands of Scotland and then up through Norway to Varangerfjord near its northernmost tip . |
| 17 | Concern about the continued lack of rain in West Africa kept prices up through August at around £764 a tonne . |
| 18 | The shortfall will be made up through sales of short-term paper — namely , bills — which have a maturity of up to one year , and through issuing more two- and three-year notes . |
| 19 | Morse , hitherto that day most remarkably under-beered , made his way up through Cornmarket to the Chapters Bar of The Randolph . |
| 20 | Oh , and he signed up for accountancy of course . |
| 21 | A POWERFUL RIG SIMPLY SET UP FOR PERFORMANCE WITH IDEAS FROM THE RACING CIRCUIT MATCHED WITH A DOUBLE LUFF GENOA REEFING SYSTEM . |
| 22 | This is the first of Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki 's films to open here , but not the last : two more are lining up for release in the next six months . |
| 23 | Stich in time : Michael Stich set himself up for Wimbledon with victory in the Stella Artois championships . |
| 24 | Best hoot of the lot was the gladiatorial look dreamt up for Spurs by Jimmy Jumble . |
| 25 | The follow up for morbidity of gastric cancer shows increased risks in the years after starting cimetidine treatment . |
| 26 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 27 | A pleasant , very nearly a respectable , young man , it seemed , which was far more than could be said for the fellow they had put up for Bradford in 1841 , an Irishman of the wilder variety who had served his apprenticeship to the political trade in such select establishments as Northallerton House of Correction and the castle jails of Lancaster and York . |
| 28 | This three-pronged approach has proved to be a successful formula , and many new markets have been opened up for companies as a result of participation on a mission . |
| 29 | Up for re-election in 1952 , he was looking around for a cause that would be electorally popular , and found it in anti-communism . |
| 30 | Was up for re-election in May this year , nineteen ninety two . |