Example sentences of "up [prep] the big " in BNC.

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1 Its comments follow a fresh warning by Sir Gordon Borrie , director-general of Fair Trading , that he will take action against long-term beer supply agreements set up between the big brewers and pubs leased to others .
2 You can watch the newsreader 's lips getting into gear , like Fatima Whitbread psyching herself up for the big throw .
3 Limbering up for the big event — Lord Mayor Treloar College assistant bursar Derek Graham ( left ) and teacher John Etherington .
4 Runners limber up for the big test
5 BELFAST is limbering up for the big international fitness challenge .
6 He pays up for the Big Turn but , ’ she shook her head and compressed her lips together , ‘ she 's never once swept that stair . ’
7 Limbering up for the big race , are
8 Each time Rugby Canada were up against the big names .
9 On the MS-DOS side of the connectivity business , Rabbit sees itself up against the big names — IBM , Novell and DCA .
10 At half past midnight , Springfield drew the council of war to a close by pushing back his chair and standing up behind the big desk , where he had been sitting flanked by Grant and Deputy Fenton .
11 It did n't require much capital to manufacture the equipment or produce the short films , and for some time it was possible for small craftsmen on the British model to keep up with the big boys in France or the US .
12 Anyway that thought decided me to make for the bedroom but I was late starting and had only just reached the top of the stairs when he was half-way up with the big brown teapot held in his pelting position .
13 They come up with the Big Ideas and build the organizations — the Big Machines — that turn them into reality .
14 Americans came up with the Big Ideas for videocassette recorders , basic oxygen furnaces , and continuous casters for making steel , microwave ovens , automobile stamping machines , computerized machine tools , integrated circuits .
15 Pete Waterman is making animated conversation at the bar After trying unsuccessfully to blackmail him with photographs of his dancing , we part company , wondering aloud if he would tart the programme up were Granada to come up with the big bucks .
16 McGilligan 's subsequent achievements in the Ireland jersey have been well chronicled and since then the Dungiven joiner has been very much up with the big boys .
17 She stared up into the big frightened eyes .
18 ‘ We 're going to take a few more , ’ and I was ushered up onto the big machine .
19 which is what I , I , in the I had Eric Bristow and Maureen one night , and , I mean , it was just little dart board in the corner , but what I did was , I had a big screen like that and I just got student television service just to film it live and just throw it straight back up onto the big
20 If the universe consisted of just the elements cooked up in the big bang , then W would be about 0.1 — ten times larger than it appears , but ten times less than theory demands .
21 Sometimes Frankie would curl up in the big seat and sleep until she shook him awake shortly before the second feature came to an end .
22 Stephen took the stairs two at a time and threw open the bedroom door to see Tamar , sitting up in the big fourposter bed , nursing their son .
23 Macaulay gets on the wrong plane and ends up in the Big Apple where he books into the palatial Plaza Hotel , much to the suspicion of various flunkies including a camp Tim Curry .
24 I looked them up in the big dictionary my father had bought for me by mail order at the beginning of the year .
25 Without being particularly conscious of where they were going , he and Cora-Beth had ended up in the big barn containing bales of straw for the loose boxes .
26 Amounts of toxic gases in our cities have already reached unacceptable levels and this is showing up in the big increases in respiratory illnesses .
27 ‘ They seemed convinced a whole lot of people had come up from the big city to show off , to be grandees , which was far from the truth .
28 Brilliant weather from the end of May through into June , particularly on the west coast , saw hordes of climbers up on the big mountain routes , particularly on Ben Nevis .
29 The man so often pilloried for fouling up on the big occasion was determined to make no mistake this time , racing to the front immediately to keep out of trouble and defying his opponents to get past .
30 Like everyone else , like you yourself , I had seen Caduta many times up on the big screen , in costume dramas , musicals , Italian sex comedies , Mexican westerns .
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