Example sentences of "[noun] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , if you 've got a mouse you could actually help speed up a lot of this editing but , I said , I 've not written in the mouse commands into this schedule because we did n't actually have mice on all work stations when this was written . |
| 2 | I pulled my skirt up a little but he said he 'd have to see higher than that to make sure my legs were n't bowed at the knees so I did as I was told . |
| 3 | cut his card up a bit more . |
| 4 | Manchester-based Leonard Curties and Partners are busy drawing up a report on the club 's financial affairs before attempting to finalise the sale next year for a fee of around £1.3 million . |
| 5 | Such activities may spontaneously develop ideas of the degree of push needed to get a car up a slope with cries of , ‘ Push harder — that was too gentle ! ’ |
| 6 | I phone Andy and confirm it 's still all right to visit , then I ring Eddie and get the next three days off , tell the cops — they 're based at Fettes , though the DI has gone back down to London , and no they 're still not giving me back my new portable yet — and ( after I 've cleaned the car up a bit ) head out of the city and across the grey bridge in a day of squally , buffeting rain that has the bridge 's 40-limit signs on , high-sided vehicles banned and the 205 dancing its Dunlops sideways as the gusts hit . |
| 7 | If you 'd made your mind up a bit earlier instead of farting about . |
| 8 | There was a coconut shy , a candy floss stall , and one where you got a prize for fishing up a coloured celluloid duck out of a moat of dirty grey water . |
| 9 | took the kids up a couple of times and then Mick and I have been up there with the |
| 10 | The first goal was definitely the killer , because after that it felt like we were carrying a one-ton weight up a down escalator . |
| 11 | It was at this point , partly because I was so nervous , that I felt it necessary to build her weight up a little , so I fed her up and overdid it , with the result that she got above her ideal flying weight . |
| 12 | I 'm not talking about shoving a prick up a five-year-old , which is beastly , or years of sexual dominance , but just a little playing around ? ’ |
| 13 | WASTE Management International , the waste disposal group recently floated in London , has returned first-quarter profits 52 p.c. higher at £27.3m on turnover up a third at £186m . |
| 14 | White Papers on the privatisation of British Coal and the setting up a national lottery are also expected . |
| 15 | ‘ People said I was brave setting up a company at such a time , ’ recalls Mr Chambers , adding ‘ Brave ’ is a back-handed way of saying ‘ You 're mad ’ . ’ |
| 16 | Treaty by setting up a company within the meaning of article 58 , whereas in this case the very right of nationals of other member states to take part in the setting up a company in the United Kingdom is restricted by the residence requirement . |
| 17 | As well as working towards the award herself , Mrs Mulhern has been instrumental in a setting up a successful International Award Scheme at St Mary 's with an increasing number of pupils taking part in the bronze , silver and gold sections . |
| 18 | Have a coffee light up a |
| 19 | Yeah well , I I pick Sue up a bit later and we 'll pop round for a cup of tea . |
| 20 | The weavers ' yard close by has been a fine example of the early wool trade , with the workers ' cottages down one side and the spinning and weaving loft up a wooden stair on the other . |
| 21 | Then , abruptly , for the following day and a half there was neither sand nor palm trees , just a thirty-mile climb up a canyon of broken slate and rock . |
| 22 | We had made an early start that morning and after a long stiff climb up a bare hillside entered a forest of wild olives and massive juniper trees resembling cedars , many of them festooned with lichen . |
| 23 | I 'd better try to tidy my desk up a bit . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You canny shove your granny up a bus ! ’ |
| 25 | No , a pick up a penguin |
| 26 | A pick up a penguin right , great , come on then Jeff say something pardon it did n't pick that up he said bollocks , Jeff just said bollocks , that 's good oh if tonight we would , see me driving along in the car and got that on , oh no , it 'll be really funny , we 're gon na be sitting there going come on as if we 'd said that today |
| 27 | Dee had just opened the two-litre engine up a bit on a dual carriageway and realized how quick the car was . |
| 28 | And then Luke came in and said the fire was fine and that he 'd bashed the cushions up a bit , to make it all OK for them . |
| 29 | I went into the garden and I found the cat up a tree . |
| 30 | We were in Mrs Mackintosh 's Tea Roomes , just off West Nile Street , surrounded by straightly pendulous light fitments , graph-paper pierced wooden screens , and ladder-back seats which turned my usual procedure of hanging my coat or jacket on the rear of the seat into an operation that resembled hoisting a flag up a tall mast . |