Example sentences of "up [prep] a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking at the paraphernalia attached to the subject wired up for a night 's recording , one might legitimately ask whether anybody could reasonably be expected to feel natural , and get to sleep in their usual way . |
| 2 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 3 | Yes , have a little nap ; it 'll set you up for a day 's work tomorrow . |
| 4 | Having selected your water and turned up for a day 's fishing you then have to decide where the fish will be on the day in question . |
| 5 | If I was a man and I thought the only way to get my jollies was by coughing up for a woman 's veal in a sorrel coulis , I would be suicidal . |
| 6 | I mean , nobody would ever believe you 'd been brought up as a gardener 's boy ! |
| 7 | However the custody order expressly forbade Miss T. being brought up as a Jehovah 's Witness , the intention being that she should make her own decision when she was old enough to do so . |
| 8 | It was in Nazareth that Jesus was brought up as a carpenter 's son . |
| 9 | OK , so you 'd probably end up getting gunned down by the SAS or something , but that 's got to be a better end for a bunch of real rock terrorists than ending up as a Levi 's advert . |
| 10 | Yvonne wakes me up after an hour 's sleep and tells me I have to leave . |
| 11 | The 90 recommendations of the inquiry included the phasing out of seclusion , better staff training and the setting up of a patients ' advocacy service . |
| 12 | In the searing Saudi heat the steel plates in the boots , designed to protect soldiers from stakes in the jungle , heated up like a blacksmith 's anvil . |
| 13 | For amps I 'm using a THD ( Tweed Fender Bassman 4x10 style ) and an old white Tolex Fender Bassman piggyback set up with a Marshall 4x12 cabinet . |
| 14 | You may not end up with an athlete 's heart through aerobic walking , but you will have gone a long way to improving its strength and efficiency , thus ensuring a longer and healthier life . |
| 15 | At issue is whether a foreign country can identify and successfully demand the repatriation of antiquities that it admits it did not even know existed until they turned up in a museum 's collection . |
| 16 | Whinges about the black market for centre-court tickets are as much a part of the Wimbledon tennis championships as thunderstorms are — but this year 's new rules mean that any tout reselling tickets at Wimbledon next month could end up in a magistrate 's court . |
| 17 | So she said I 'm coming up in a fortnight 's time the fourteenth cos it 's David 's birthday that week |
| 18 | In other words , the dying mouse is the one most likely to end up in a cat 's stomach . |
| 19 | One sequence , filmed in Maidenhead , showed Crawford , dressed up in a fireman 's uniform , peddling furiously on a bike in an attempt to catch up with the engine . |
| 20 | She says she learned toughness after being brought up in a man 's world by her divorced father , Ryan O'Neal . |
| 21 | Marks & Spencer , having liberated breeding pigs from hard concrete cells to the great outdoors , tells fondly of the technologist who snuggled up in a sow 's couchette to comfort test the temperature of her new straw-bedded housing . |
| 22 | It 'll be up to him whether he throws me to the dogs and I finish up in a debtor 's prison , or whether he turns into a guardian angel complete with halo and big fat cheque . |
| 23 | It appears that the promises of God , his plans for a new beginning for his world , are locked up in a Pharaoh 's palace . |
| 24 | I was wrapped up in an officer 's uniform ; you could n't see me for fur and leather . |
| 25 | No doubt the Virgin Isles will crop up in an Airtours ' brochure before long . |
| 26 | It was it was fun when we first started , because the weather was nice , you know it was er you c take a thermos up and have a picnic and sit in the chair and read a book or whatever if there was no one around , but after a while when it became a duty , yeah it was hard work getting up on a winter 's morning , knowing full well that you probably would n't see any cars if you down in until about ten in the morning , but you still had to be there at seven o'clock , and honking it down with rain or whatever . |
| 27 | If the order was to advance , a man 's chances of completing twenty yards would not have been considered worth chalking up on a bookie 's blackboard . |
| 28 | The activists had given up on a people 's peace — and they were not yet ready to explore the possibilities of a people 's war . |
| 29 | We do n't just brand the cheapest tubes available , bubble pack them in pairs and hang them up on a dealer 's wall . |
| 30 | Those laid off get up to a year 's salary and a year of medical coverage , counselling for those seeking new careers and up to $2,500 for job retraining . |