Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] 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 | Boon was their hero … he cruised to his century and set his team up for a big score … |
| 3 | United were wobbling ; Hoddle was winding up for a big finish . |
| 4 | You can watch the newsreader 's lips getting into gear , like Fatima Whitbread psyching herself up for the big throw . |
| 5 | Limbering up for the big event — Lord Mayor Treloar College assistant bursar Derek Graham ( left ) and teacher John Etherington . |
| 6 | Runners limber up for the big test |
| 7 | BELFAST is limbering up for the big international fitness challenge . |
| 8 | He pays up for the Big Turn but , ’ she shook her head and compressed her lips together , ‘ she 's never once swept that stair . ’ |
| 9 | Limbering up for the big race , are |
| 10 | Then we did n't achieve , we 're did n't produce a work plan or organiser , we went straight in , people were hacking out bits of papers , you know , it ended up as a big pile of words you know . |
| 11 | But I was up against a big , strong lad called Eddie Evans in the Canada game and that was very hard work . |
| 12 | Each time Rugby Canada were up against the big names . |
| 13 | On the MS-DOS side of the connectivity business , Rabbit sees itself up against the big names — IBM , Novell and DCA . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The answer is to use a hair-rig ( a full description of which appears in the carp chapter ) , which allows us to present the bait on a fine hookless line , backed up with a big hook with which to play the fish . |
| 16 | in that they 're electrically they really are electrical charges , and somebody comes up with a big positive electrical pole of a a battery |
| 17 | Just had a call to say , Robbo , whatever the things hanging in your loft might be , wait until the Autumn , go up with a big stick , and knock them into a carrier bag . |
| 18 | Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to . |
| 19 | Yes it is cos otherwise you end up with a big big |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They come up with the Big Ideas and build the organizations — the Big Machines — that turn them into reality . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She stared up into the big frightened eyes . |
| 27 | ‘ We 're going to take a few more , ’ and I was ushered up onto the big machine . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | The letters are pinned up in a big main post office and generous people send the presents . |
| 30 | With the breakdown of the administration , crime syndicates have come up in a big way . |