Example sentences of "up [prep] a few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We weighed each other up for a few moments without speaking . |
| 2 | ‘ Try a selection from the Desert Song , topped up with a few choruses of Cool clear Water , Midnight at the Oasis or Caravans which may convince your bird that it has come to wrong place . |
| 3 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |
| 4 | ATP could always come up with a few money-spinners in its annual output , but the lavish location and studio work on Whom the Gods Love , Dean 's film on the life of Mozart , irritated board chairman Sir Stephen Courtauld , who began to argue that Dean was doing too much stage work , and had alienated George Formby . |
| 5 | So we think of them as being descriptive , but in reality , if you 're going to say to somebody , you 're very responsible , they 're probably not going to know what you mean , unless you come up with a few examples of what you 're talking about , of how they 've demonstrated that type of behaviour . |
| 6 | The video shop did n't open up until a few minutes after ten . |
| 7 | Either way , a whole house-shell could be put up in a few hours by a few successive foam-formings of the main walls and pillars . |
| 8 | It broke up within a few years of Anselm 's death under the impact of forces which were too strong for it . |
| 9 | Jenny came back from Rome and rang Sara up within a few days of arriving home . |
| 10 | Pitcairn seamount lavas have O isotope ratios up to a few parts per million higher than the mantle value , which leads to the virtually inescapable conclusion that they contain a component that was once at the surface of the Earth . |