Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the next morning I was up at the top gate on picket and erm came with his van and he he spelted up through and the lads jumped one side well , I 'm nearly sixty five I did n't jump so quickly . |
| 2 | I thought you were up with the latest fashions . |
| 3 | ‘ She was up for the entire morning , and this afternoon she must rest . |
| 4 | We were up on the top floor and Ralph Horton came up to listen to us and was impressed , although I think he was more impressed with David than us . |
| 5 | ‘ It was funny to see those agents ’ faces when they discovered they were up against the famous Marc Vila ! |
| 6 | They were up against the absolute certainty of guilt expressed by all the parties weighed against them . |
| 7 | If it were up to the faithful in Blackpool , Margaret Thatcher would go ‘ on and on ’ . |
| 8 | If it was up to the Labour Party it 'd be halved in two . |
| 9 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |
| 10 | The debtor was prima facie in the wrong and the creditor in the right , and it was up to the former to extricate himself from the charge to which he had laid himself open . |
| 11 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 12 | Mr Eggar , Michael Heseltine 's secretary , said it was up to the local management to press the case for the pit to stay open to the independent consultants reviewing the pit closures . |
| 13 | The scene , a stag-party 's post-pub , pre-dancing meal , was not going well : it was up to the fourteenth take , and the continuity man was looking frazzled . |
| 14 | Now it was up to the Marine Commandoes . |
| 15 | Then he was up to the silvery layer of the surface . |
| 16 | He reckoned the boy had doubled the price for his ice cream because he was up at the smart end of town , not plying his usual pitch at the bottom of the Acropolis . |
| 17 | We were not alone in our dilemma , for all the other prahus in the fleet around us were up against the same deadline . |