Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 3 | They holed up for the next two days in Leatherslade Farm House … at Oakley twenty seven miles away . |
| 4 | ‘ My rent is paid up for the next six months , ’ Caro had assured her airily , ‘ before I knew I was leaving . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I am 24 now and I am signed up for the next five years . |
| 6 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 7 | I sat up for the next few nights , my head poking out of the back skylight of the loft , my ears straining for the tinkle of glass breaking or muffled curses , or the more usual signal of the birds being disturbed and taking flight , but nothing more happened . |
| 8 | Events lined up for the next few weeks include Indian dancer Bisakha Sarker performing as part of a Verbal Images event , a European Youth Dance Night , The Cholmondleys and V-Tol Dance Company . |
| 9 | He notes that any loss of earnings can usually be made up during the first ten years of work . |
| 10 | A few co-operatives have been set up during the last 25 years . |
| 11 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 12 | We believe that the downturn has genuinely bottomed out now , however , and we will be watching for a pick up during the next three months . ’ |
| 13 | I do n't want this match to end up like the last two Tests . ’ |
| 14 | From there on , the cherry and whites took complete control and were 10 points up in the first 14 minutes . |
| 15 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |
| 16 | Piper , fighting behind a stiff left jab and a MENSA rating of 153 , backed Benn up in the first two rounds , with hard short rights . |
| 17 | LAST year , when the Dublin Tornadoes played the Belfast Spartans , the Tornadoes went 13–0 up in the first two minutes of the game before the Spartans fought back to win 16–13 . |
| 18 | This year the Tornadoes again went 13–0 up in the first two minutes . |
| 19 | CAPTAIN Will Carling last night told England to sing up and play up in the first 20 minutes or risk Naas Botha wrecking their hopes of winning today 's historic international at Twickenham . |
| 20 | The Diadora League minnows could have been three up in the first 20 minutes . |
| 21 | Is th another area that I did n't cover actually when when we were looking at the flats was erm , some people have s have around said that erm flats when they were first up in the first few years , erm were a contrast with the later years , in that erm they did n't have many of the problems , Many of the problems associated with the flats now , didn we were not in existence in the early days of the flats . |
| 22 | Although things have picked up in the last six months , the work is more likely to be restructuring , rights issues or corporate rescues . |
| 23 | This left Ambegate in front but he weakened up the hill and never-say-die Scudamore forced Vagog up in the last few strides . |
| 24 | Entries are flowing in — a limit of 2000 has been set — but Malcolm Barham , of the race organisers , says things generally hot up in the last few days before the closing date , which is April 10 . |
| 25 | Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over . |
| 26 | But , I , physically I ca n't do it , I , I 've aged up in the last few years . |
| 27 | Their calibre , though , is impossible to deny : listen to the last half of Divine Madness and you 'll hear the most consistently pugnacious and provocative music British pop has turned up in the last 15 years . |
| 28 | In the report it says that home repossessions have gone up in the last 12 months . |
| 29 | booking on his own at the moment , three hundred pounds on bookings he 's got , coming up in the next three weeks |
| 30 | Companies behind with their accounts and returns submissions will have to catch up in the next 12 months . |