Example sentences of "up over " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , somehow , my savings , carefully built up over the years , were starting to run dry . |
| 2 | I got up and walked quickly out of the coffee shop , up over the footbridge and on to the other platform — jumping on to the train just as it was about to go . |
| 3 | While other chaps sing the praises of Meryl Streep , Joely Richardson or Gabriela Sabatini , I 'm much more likely to be found getting worked up over worms . |
| 4 | If a decision is made to abandon the launch at height , it is safer to release first and then to lower the nose , as this prevents the risk of the cable parachute opening and flying up over the aircraft . |
| 5 | In effect this was a period of withdrawal from a rigidly structured police world to a world turned upside down ; where , in a ‘ counter-cultural ’ way , we were to find that the strict terms of reference we had carefully built up over the years no longer seemed to have relevance . |
| 6 | Her house was falling down , a tree growing out of the chimney , and purple buddleia all summer from the guttering and up over her windowsills . |
| 7 | Her gorgeous tail curls right up over her back and wags incessantly . |
| 8 | With loan rates virtually certain to move up over the next month to around 14.75 per cent , a line of credit fixed at 12.95 per cent suddenly seems rather attractive . |
| 9 | Column Eight : Mobil slips up over pound |
| 10 | The results confirm the so-called Standard Model , the theory which physicists have built up over the past 15 years to explain both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it . |
| 11 | The means by which this is done is through the ‘ schemes of experience ’ , such as typifications , recipes , and other idealizations which members build up over time and into which are allotted new experiences and encounters , rendering the unknown into the known , the unfamiliar into the familiar . |
| 12 | Look at those flares going up over No. 6 Commando positions . ’ |
| 13 | This expectation has rather been confirmed than otherwise by the superimposition in the last two years of an element of graduation in the contribution , the additional yield of which for many years to come will mainly help to finance the standard pension but which creates a right to additions to it which will gradually build up over the next forty years on an actuarial basis . |
| 14 | They have n't worked in the clubs and colleges , building themselves up over the years . |
| 15 | Consequently , compromises have built up over the years . |
| 16 | Such dedication was admirable , as was the aerial ability of the birds , which wheeled and dived , pulled up over our heads , wheeled and dived again . |
| 17 | The temperature falls and Nathan pulls the nylon sledge cover up over his head , peering out through a narrow slit so as not to miss anything . |
| 18 | It 's pretty good here — they got photos of food all lit up over the counter so you can just point . |
| 19 | Built up over the past 10 years , his aquilegia collection consists of about 130 species and hybrids , with the emphasis on species ‘ to save as many as possible from extinction and allow present and future generations to know and enjoy their great beauty ’ . |
| 20 | More than 100 jobs have been axed , a For Sale sign has gone up over a large slice of its assets and chief executive Andros Stakis has been ousted . |
| 21 | It would not , frankly , be totally surprising if — somewhere between Strasbourg this weekend and an EMU vesting date in the middle nineties — the tide of history began to dissolve the fabric of a Community built up over decades . |
| 22 | A local builder , probably the same man who had just built the beautiful house of Newton Ferrers , created this simple masterpiece in the local sea-grey basaltic stone , mixed with silvery granite from the moor up over the hill to the north . |
| 23 | They were in their plastic bags on the outdoor grounds , and as the sun came up , it came up over the top of the hill and hit the silver pyramid and there was David on stage singing . |
| 24 | Nothing is invisible to radar , but a stealthy aircraft shows up over the background noise only at so close a range that radar , which has dominated air and combat for two generations , is virtually useless against it . |
| 25 | The barman even told him he 'd had enough — something they rarely do unless they think a client 's about to throw up over the upholstery or start taking his clothes off . |
| 26 | Dot pulled the tartan rug up over her face to breathe the smell of dogs . |
| 27 | Her foot went into a puddle : the green , algae-filled water slopped up over her trainer . |
| 28 | Bella pulled a cellular blanket up over her head , closed her eyes and lay , as still as she could , under her heap of covers . |
| 29 | I hope I never go deaf and have to wear a hearing-aid ; it will sound like the Atlantic rollers crashing up over the rocks at Land 's End . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I never ! ’ said Aunt Bedelia stalking off with her skirt up over her head showing her fleecy-lined Directoire knickers . |