Example sentences of "be [adv] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could imagine what conditions must be like up in the mountains , having done their stint in the sticks at one time or another . |
| 2 | He soon comes into my old room cos he 's gon na be straight up on the bed , right . |
| 3 | ‘ They 'll soon be back up with the pace ’ , he says . |
| 4 | ‘ Then I could show Mother Francis that I 'd be back up in the convent in time for Mass in the chapel , and she 'd get to know I was to be relied on . ’ |
| 5 | When we are old we take longer to recover and because we ca n't discharge them to nursing kind of beds then there 'll be back up in the John Radcliffe Hospital and extra pressure there . |
| 6 | Under the registration of inspectors advocated by the Bill , local government inspection will be universally up to the standard which at the moment only the very best attain . |