Sentence examples for up the fields from inspiring English sources

For instance, he realises that the sprawl of the city is eating up the fields he used to play in and thus shrinking his horizons.

It was the 1927 novel by Upton Sinclair set in California at the turn of the century among oil prospectors scrambling to buy up the fields.

This is the way he lost it three years later: 200 armed men arrived with bulldozers just before harvest time last year and tore up the fields and thatched huts of Mr. Doc Phum and 100 other subsistence farmers.

So, in Australia's first innings, their run-rate was pretty restricted because we bowled well and we set good fields that backed up the bowlers and the bowlers backed up the fields that were set.

Every license plate in New Jersey is a reminder of the state's historical role as the market garden for New York and Philadelphia, before suburbanization gobbled up the fields, and refrigerated transport allowed produce to travel here from distant locations.

My idea in Orientalism was to use humanistic critique to open up the fields of struggle, to introduce a longer sequence of thought and analysis to replace the short bursts of polemical, thought-stopping fury that so imprison us.

I'm out there to open up the field".

Now they appear to have given up the field entirely.

"It's just my instinct to get up the field.

The Americans are up, 1-0, but are showing plenty of desire to get up the field.

Seven horses made up the field for the Belmont Stakes, with Pensive the favourite at 1 2.