Example sentences of "up [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many opinions I formerly entertained are now given up & probably many of my present opinions will share the same fate — I wish them to be closely and fully ( as I know they will fairly ) examined without any regard to the author & therefore I can not by my presence aid your cause . |
| 2 | GET UP & GO |
| 3 | The U.S.A. trip was wonderfully reminiscent too … mainly for the two brothers who travelled up & down Memory Lane every hour of every three week day . |
| 4 | I can talk about it freely now & we have all picked ourselves up & dusted ourselves down … says that she is a stronger person ( maybe even ‘ harder ’ ) … & she is a very efficient business person & lives & works in Glasgow . |
| 5 | There 's none for the tea urns or the washing up or … ’ her voice dropped dramatically . |
| 6 | The glider should not be steepened up or levelled out immediately after leaving the ground . |
| 7 | In windy weather , the effects of the wind gradient near the ground accentuate any movement up or down of the towplane and glider . |
| 8 | Wrap the bandage around the injured limb , then spiral it up or down for one turn . |
| 9 | Susan did not know how she felt about this until she saw that he had painted himself and herself half-way up or half-way down , looking up or down at their reflections in the water . |
| 10 | Susan did not know how she felt about this until she saw that he had painted himself and herself half-way up or half-way down , looking up or down at their reflections in the water . |
| 11 | But how , when he had nothing that I could take by force , steal , hide , break in front of him , tear up or trample underfoot , to vent my rage and spite ? |
| 12 | When he pulls himself up or corrects his placing or step he beams on the audience as , for example , when he finishes with his back after a pirouette and hastily turns to face them . |
| 13 | With a modern diaphragm valve , it may only be necessary to move the float up or down on the serrated spindle connected to the valve arm |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was the kind of socialism that insisted the NHS was not split up or sold off , that resented the injustice of the poll tax , and opposed the centralisation , control and censorship which had eroded civil liberties over the last 10 years . |
| 16 | If 70,000 dared to go on the streets feeling they might be beaten up or worse , how many might demonstrate if that fear is removed ? |
| 17 | It was her way with the pithy and quotable phrase that drew media attention to her work on the London catwalks in the early Eighties , a knack she called on again in her last collection , studding ‘ Clean Up Or Die ’ on to the backs of leather biker jackets . |
| 18 | Any company that has plans for international marketing must build up or have access to marketing information about a large number of different countries . |
| 19 | Therefore , if this backward boy was to get a good education , he must somehow be crammed up or taught up to scrape a scholarship at one of the big independent schools where most of the fees would be paid for scholars . |
| 20 | The old channels through which the relevant resources flowed have dried up or been dug up . |
| 21 | Otherwise , one wonders , how could there constantly be those ‘ asides ’ , which seem to reveal that the participants were actually aware the game was up or rather perhaps had never started ? |
| 22 | Each time you wanted to go up or down you had to pull a chain . |
| 23 | In the naked fear of falling in a space so huge that she did not know whether she was falling up or down , inward or outward , she met a fear so great that it burned away forever all the other fears . |
| 24 | • If you ca n't get to sleep , do n't get up or have a meal or snack ; relax and read quietly instead . |
| 25 | Put up or shut up ! |
| 26 | This will divert forests from disputed uplands where foresters are frequently held up or defeated in long battles with environment groups . |
| 27 | Their course is so far short : the first national Green Party founded in New Zealand as the Value Party in 1972 , the next in the United Kingdom in the following year and then a long gap until Ecolo in Belgium in 1980 heralded a rush either to set up or amalgamate existing groups into parties in the early and mid-1980s . |
| 28 | Restrictions on investment in each other 's airlines should go , and airlines would be allowed to merge , divest , start up or close down . |
| 29 | He lived and played and wrote and toured frenetically for the next couple of years , working night and day — with just a little help from Benzedrine , Methedrine , and anything else that would speed him up or slow him down . |
| 30 | These equations can be scaled up or down , rotated , or anything else , without having to redefine them . |