Example sentences of "up a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not , to be honest , think I would have much success — it 's not the sort of thing that I would have known all those years ago — but the idea of ringing up a few of my former colleagues was just irresistible . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’ |
| 3 | I pulled up a few tufts of grass and covered the blood . |
| 4 | He picked up a few tricks of the trade as he progressed . |
| 5 | Cardiff foreshore turned up a few conger and codling . |
| 6 | Worm baits picked up a few small coalfish , codling and whiting . |
| 7 | The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop . |
| 8 | Rushie picked up a few lira and an Armani suit but it 's probably fair to say our golden boy from St Asaph did n't exactly win the freedom of Turin . |
| 9 | At least confident that Spouse will enjoy , and probably pick up a few tips from , biography of Hitler . |
| 10 | We could hang up a few politicians too. , ‘ There 's that farmer who used a plough with horses . |
| 11 | And I did so want to dig up a few artichokes this evening . |
| 12 | The newest style was ‘ split-level ’ — a living room with a picture window and an adjoining dining area , a kitchen and , up a few stairs above the double garage , three bedrooms and two bathrooms . |
| 13 | In case we do have a hard winter however , it might be worth potting up a few and over-wintering them , if you have n't already saved some of last year 's generously produced and well-ripened seed . |
| 14 | WP When East Berlin opened up a few months ago , there were mobile porn shops visiting different quarters of the city . |
| 15 | I think she 's picked up a few pointers , like how to chop an onion and how to dissolve an Oxo cube . |
| 16 | ‘ It is unlikely that we would sue the government — in fact , we might even pick up a few extra funds on the back of theirs . |
| 17 | British farmers who sold up a few years ago to buy cheap agricultural land in France are also finding that the grass is no greener on the other side of the Channel , and costs more . |
| 18 | The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’ |
| 19 | In fact she might even just dream up a few to even up the score a little . |
| 20 | The parents had all departed into the warehouse with Uncle Knacker to ‘ knock up a few looseboxes ’ . |
| 21 | If you think the ‘ feeder is emptying too fast it is a simple matter to block up a few of the holes with a piece of sticky tape . |
| 22 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 23 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , ’ says the ex-chief executive philosophically , ‘ when you 've managed a business in crisis mode as long as I have , you pick up a few enemies . ’ |
| 25 | I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me . |
| 26 | Together , by getting their fingers in the rat-holes , they managed to tug up a few feet of rotten chestnut boarding , tindery at the edges . |
| 27 | He 'd obviously picked up a few tips from the paperbacks , because he spun these stories out like a kid pulling on chewing-gum . |
| 28 | Once you can keep this up a few times , then you are juggling . |
| 29 | It is sometimes very difficult indeed not to be very cross , and there have been some occasions when I have had to go and chop up a few logs in order to abate my own aggression before replying . |
| 30 | I too pondered over making up a few of my own out of spring steel , but decided to try the cheaper option of a note to Warwick themselves before going down this route . |