Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 2 | Both England stars started their careers at Acklam Park , Middlesbrough , and youngsters , aged nine to 14 , can now learn to run with the ball and line up for line-outs with the Rugby Union course on the same turf . |
| 3 | It had been owned by the Turner family , and my aunt 's builder husband had bought it from them and was turning it into an apartment house when he was called up for service with the Army . |
| 4 | I also remember , incidentally , the first letter that I had to erm type , a young chap who was erm shortly called up for service in the Army came in and erm dictated a little letter to me to see how erm , how I got on and erm it was a letter to parents in Halesworth whose daughter had just been er transferred to a grammar school and erm in those days of course the , if the distance was more than three miles the Education Committee er provided a cycle and cape and leggings and erm the object of the letter was to find out the child 's inside leg measurement |
| 5 | Most of the Kabye living in Lomé had been rounded up for protection by the army , saying their houses had been ransacked by the Ewes . |
| 6 | No amount of brilliance can make up for knowledge of the idiom of the field . |
| 7 | You 're the , you 're the driver and you 've got to get up for work in the morning and everything else . |
| 8 | It would perhaps be unusual for expulsion to follow as a matter of course under this head without some discussion with the invalid to see whether other arrangements might be made and the real object of including this as a ground for expulsion is to remove doubt on all sides as to when such delicate matters are liable to be brought up for discussion in the context of early retirement . |
| 9 | THERE are two prize fishing holidays up for grabs in the Echo 's Catch of the Season competition . |
| 10 | An Italian , Gionesca , was absent from parade one morning as we lined up for inspection by the Sergeant-Major ; Corporal Herve , a scarred Frenchman who had taken over from Vigno as duty NCO , went upstairs to find him . |
| 11 | Like any other young couple they teamed up for outings to the beach , for barbecues with friends , or visits to the cinema . |
| 12 | Keith has to get up for school in the morning , but he 's not thinking about that at the minute . |
| 13 | And anyway you 've got ta get up for school in the morning . |
| 14 | There was a mild stockbuilding boom , probably to make up for dislocations over the winter , and commodity prices took off again . |
| 15 | With many electricity supply contracts coming up for renewal at the end of March , the first fruits of the Government 's privatisation policy for the industry are ripening , much like the olives growing in the Department of Energy 's new atrium at the centre of its London offices . |
| 16 | Having managed to come by a decent bit of steak and kidney , he stood over the young maid , who came in once a week , until she had managed to produce a pie , later warmed up for dinner in the microwave . |
| 17 | It 's thought the sword guard will be bought by The museum of Wales when it 's put up for auction by the Receiver of wrecks later this year . |
| 18 | Ms Hutchison did not boost her case , however , by asserting in a recent televised debate that she is ‘ a fighter ’ who will stand up for Texas in the Senate . |
| 19 | In the Forest of Dean a special swanimote was held on 10 June 1634 : 800 presentments of offences against vert and venison , some referring to events forty years old , were drawn up for submission at the Forest Eyre in the following month . |
| 20 | Bundespost Telekom says that operating profit in 1992 fell 4.6% to the equivalent of $4,157m ; after Telekom has made its required subvention to the federal government and its two loss-making sister units , it will be left with nothing to add to reserves — it is required by law to transfer 10 pct of its annual turnover to the federal government and to make up for losses at the Postdienst mail service and Postbank postal banking unit , Reuter notes . |
| 21 | International : KGB signs up for Hollywood After the success of JFK , Russian spies start to trade in undercover past for over-the-counter assets |
| 22 | Robin Corbett , who was speaking up for animals from the opposition front bench in the fox-hunting debate , had a bitter experience of his own concerning the animal-lovers ' vote . |
| 23 | Shiny new BMWs were lined up for sale on the forecourt of what I took to be a condemned block of woefully austere flats , with a dilapidated factory next door . |
| 24 | The lease of Barrington Court in Somerset has been put up for sale by the Trust 's tenant , Mr. Andrew Lyle , along with his family 's surrounding freehold farmland . |
| 25 | He was put up for sale before the start of this season . |
| 26 | We used to put these herren up for red-herren during the winter , and we 'd probably put three lots or consignments . |
| 27 | They will continue to be brought up as heirs to the throne . ’ |
| 28 | In Spain , the party that might hold the balance of power after the general election on June 6th , the Communist-dominated United Left , has reservations about the treaty , though it has dressed them up as criticism of the government for refusing to call a referendum on it . |
| 29 | The two boys from the puritan villages of Wales set themselves up as hell-raisers to the world . |
| 30 | Eric 's parents , who , according to him , could scarcely be regarded as enthusiastic churchgoers , now developed a strong feeling that any children that might result from our marriage ought to be brought up as members of the Church of England . |