Example sentences of "be up [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I do n't see that there 's likely to be any connection , but since we 're up against a brick wall in the Stavanger case , I 've come to pick your brains . " |
| 2 | " You say you 're up against a brick wall — well , that 's just where we got to in the Southwark Bridge case . |
| 3 | Our solicitor is fighting for that , but we seem as though we 're up against a brick wall at the moment , so we 'll have to just wait and see . |
| 4 | Crusaders know only too well they 're up against a class outfit . |
| 5 | It will then be up to a care manager to decide on the level of service . |
| 6 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 7 | If we let Blagg go to hospital the cops get him , and he could be up on a murder charge . |
| 8 | Yeah he 's going okay I 'll be up in a minute love . |
| 9 | ‘ Howard Kendall is doing his best , but we think he is up against a brick wall . |
| 10 | Retired businessman Roger Sullivan was up against a telephone bidder … |
| 11 | Next , surely , he must have thought he was up against a demon intent on destroying him for no reason at all . |