Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh you only got up for a coffee ? |
| 2 | Wedding first , Pertwee 's wedding , and Hatton all got up in a topper with his tarty wife . |
| 3 | The weight of Garvey on his narrow , bony shoulders , combined with the close fit of the donkey-head , seemed to cause him some distress , because he suddenly reeled up against a wall and snatched off the head . |
| 4 | Instead of promoting a situation in which everyone is itching to do something positive for the good of the Tour , we merely ended up with a handful of players who did nothing but complain . ’ |
| 5 | The company spent some two years casting around for a successor to its best-selling computer and finally came up with a machine called Lisa named after the daughter of the company 's founder Steve Jobs . |
| 6 | She said oh no I just rang up for a chat . |
| 7 | It just leapt up like a demon in my head when I was staring at you … like X-ray eyes … |
| 8 | At first they managed with an old Hillman Minx estate , but they soon traded up to a Ford Transit van . |
| 9 | The great sides always capitalise on moments of good fortune and when Marty Roebuck made a hash of a simple penalty four minutes from the break it somehow ended up as a try . |
| 10 | If Country Jacobitism had for a time in the early 1690s represented an alliance of disillusioned Whigs and Tories , it nevertheless ended up as a platform which drew support almost exclusively from Tories . |
| 11 | The Royal Navy rapidly came up with a countermeasure once it had discovered exactly what circuits Exocet used to foil attempts to head it off . |
| 12 | THE Premier League yesterday came up with a peace formula that seemed likely to avert the first strike by English footballers . |
| 13 | I always finished up as a bandit , or a pirate , I do n't know quite why . |
| 14 | Jack calmly walked up to a stranger on a bench and asked : ‘ Can I borrow a fag ? ’ |
| 15 | She once summed up to a gathering of marketing specialists the extent of her success , which earned The Body Shop the award of business of the year in 1987 : |
| 16 | The heat also produced up to a kilogram of lethal dioxin , some of which still contaminates the surrounding area . |
| 17 | There was also the occasional case of petty theft , street fighting or traffic offences which often ended up with a plea of Guilty and a fine of a few dollars or a short period in goal . |
| 18 | A nympho barfly shacked up with a prizefighter — that 's not her scene . ’ |
| 19 | We even split up for a while . |
| 20 | Then got up for a pee . |
| 21 | STUART then came up with a solution . |
| 22 | We then came up against a stop , and as I said a moment ago , our choice was between that budget , as negotiated , and the Labour budget , and I 've just shown you one hole in that budget . |
| 23 | Oxfordshire have had the toughest task of all against the championship leaders Glamorgan at swansea … they got some early wickets but then came up against a chap called Richards … |
| 24 | I dipped down into a valley , crossed into another field — moving faster and faster — and then climbed up towards a thicket . |
| 25 | The illustrations from My ABC are also available in 13 separate sheets intended to be coloured in by individuals or groups and then hung up as a mural to decorate the walls of the classroom . |
| 26 | Sheila puckered her brow with concentration , then looked up with a grin . |
| 27 | Above the fireplace a layer of furry soot clung to the under-surface of the beams : on their upper surface flakes of chaff , from the autumn threshing on the roof , had lodged themselves in pockets , and as she swept , the black and yellow particles cascaded to the ground , then floated up on a cloud of swirling dust . |
| 28 | She turned and looked at him , then sat up with a gasp of dismay . |
| 29 | Those points you 'll find again summed up in a hand-out which is at the back on the seats there . |
| 30 | Newly mounted cavalry , eighteen battalions of infantry and twenty-two cannon did not constitute an army , but they certainly added up to a threat . |