Example sentences of "[pron] was up [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Now I was up with the world 's elite sprinters , with Ben and Carl , Calvin and Dennis .
2 I thought that as I was up with him , I was up with the leaders .
3 I thought that as I was up with him , I was up with the leaders .
4 Well we nearly when I was up with the children at the to when I was
5 I was up with you lot then .
6 I was up on the box all the time ! ’
7 In fact , as I recall , I was up on the step-ladder dusting the portrait of Viscount Wetherby when my employer had entered carrying a few volumes which he presumably wished returned to the shelves .
8 Then the American announcer said , ‘ The bronze medal , Linford Christie , Great Britain , ’ and I was up on the plinth , the medal was around my neck and the Union Jacks were waving .
9 Its reflection on the water surface of the river at Abingdon advanced towards me , in this case not exactly to my feet because I was up on the bridge , but whatever else I managed to achieve in the picture I had to make this plane of the river advance .
10 However , so erm she asked me if I 'd go up and give her hand to sort things out , so I was up on the Friday morning and I said well you better phone the corporation and tell them that you 're moving out on Saturday morning .
11 Now a as I say , I was up on there on Friday and erm
12 I was up on the hill when the woman came .
13 At last I was up on a level with him .
14 ‘ Last Saturday night I was up on the stage being congratulated on winning the car .
15 While I was up at university , an awful lot of students from wealthy backgrounds were fiddling the dole somehow , and I reckon that the politicians and civil servants think that all they 're in fact doing is cutting their own children 's pocket money .
16 I had a duck-billed platypus when I was up at Trinity ,
17 The next morning unslept I was up at five but because of rain it was much later when we started the six kilometres ' trail to the larger lake on the reserve .
18 It attracted me like a magnet when I was a youth , and soon as I could leave school I was up at the course for a caddying job .
19 I was up at the Grange last night treating ingrowing toenails .
20 I was up at Lancaster when Liverpool got it .
21 On Sunday I was up at 6am .
22 for October , I think , when I was up at the hospital and it was down not I was below .
23 I was up at Sea House one night , looking in through the window — "
24 But true to his plan not to do anything to interrupt , or to deflect me from , my studies , while I was up at Oxford , he took the first opportunity , now that I had gone down , to enlist my services with The Criterion .
25 but you see er , yes that 's right and then of course I 'm , since then I was up at Cambridge and that was during the second year
26 Well the next morning I was up at the top gate on picket and erm came with his van and he he spelted up through and the lads jumped one side well , I 'm nearly sixty five I did n't jump so quickly .
27 the structured thought patterns I found that the most important because when I was up at the table on the second presentation I was able to have my thoughts relating to the layout already and with in fact just the single element of the subject shown on my paper I could immediately focus on that and in fact give the details of that right the way through .
28 ‘ Because there were telephone calls to make and various matters which needed my attention , I was up at dawn this morning , ’ Vitor told her .
29 I was up at about ten I suppose .
30 Ask me the time I was up at ?
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