Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] the big " in BNC.
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| 1 | Railways van drew up outside the big house . |
| 2 | ‘ They seemed convinced a whole lot of people had come up from the big city to show off , to be grandees , which was far from the truth . |
| 3 | Pete Waterman is making animated conversation at the bar After trying unsuccessfully to blackmail him with photographs of his dancing , we part company , wondering aloud if he would tart the programme up were Granada to come up with the big bucks . |
| 4 | Americans came up with the Big Ideas for videocassette recorders , basic oxygen furnaces , and continuous casters for making steel , microwave ovens , automobile stamping machines , computerized machine tools , integrated circuits . |
| 5 | Over seven weeks leading up to the big day , Jim Nash , Lorna Powell and Agnes Ramsay had to find out about marquees , promotional material , advertising and food . |
| 6 | And you know it had little blobs , alright , leading up to the big long shit ! |
| 7 | Macaulay gets on the wrong plane and ends up in the Big Apple where he books into the palatial Plaza Hotel , much to the suspicion of various flunkies including a camp Tim Curry . |
| 8 | Runners limber up for the big test |
| 9 | Limbering up for the big event — Lord Mayor Treloar College assistant bursar Derek Graham ( left ) and teacher John Etherington . |
| 10 | BELFAST is limbering up for the big international fitness challenge . |
| 11 | Limbering up for the big race , are |
| 12 | Life was getting harder for village shops : ‘ All the little firms we dealt with started to disappear , getting swallowed up by the big boys . |
| 13 | Its comments follow a fresh warning by Sir Gordon Borrie , director-general of Fair Trading , that he will take action against long-term beer supply agreements set up between the big brewers and pubs leased to others . |
| 14 | Although he was nine years old and would soon be moving up to the big school , Frankie was still frightened of the dark . |
| 15 | ‘ You know , Frank , ’ she said , ‘ I 'm going to take a great delight in telling her , much more so than facing up to the big boy himself , because she it is who has paved the way for all this . ’ |
| 16 | If the universe consisted of just the elements cooked up in the big bang , then W would be about 0.1 — ten times larger than it appears , but ten times less than theory demands . |
| 17 | Yeah , it 's it 's it 's the build up to it as well , there 's a lot of excitement , I mean , most people it takes about six months to build up to the big day , and then finally it 's there and it all happens and , I think that makes it a lot , exciting for a lot of women . |
| 18 | It did n't require much capital to manufacture the equipment or produce the short films , and for some time it was possible for small craftsmen on the British model to keep up with the big boys in France or the US . |
| 19 | Added to complaints by women 's organisations about the screen 's increasing sexuality ( for that era ) , the Arbuckle scandal helped to bring about censorship by the Hays Office , a self-regulating body set up by the big studios in 1922 , under lawyer Will H. Hays . |
| 20 | The man so often pilloried for fouling up on the big occasion was determined to make no mistake this time , racing to the front immediately to keep out of trouble and defying his opponents to get past . |
| 21 | The 29-year-old Motherwell man , who has made an art form of fouling up on the big occasion , acknowledged that he too came close to calling it a day after the Olympics . |
| 22 | Villa 's contribution to Walker 's celebrations was their worst defensive display of the season and an embarrassing individual performance by England Under-21 international Ugo Ehiogu , who failed to live up to the big pre-match build-up given him by Ron Atkinson . |
| 23 | She stared up into the big frightened eyes . |
| 24 | I du n no what to do now so I go up to the big electric sign board and have a look at it . |
| 25 | Ebert looked up at the big man defiantly , spitting the words back at him . |
| 26 | He pays up for the Big Turn but , ’ she shook her head and compressed her lips together , ‘ she 's never once swept that stair . ’ |
| 27 | Sometimes Frankie would curl up in the big seat and sleep until she shook him awake shortly before the second feature came to an end . |
| 28 | Amounts of toxic gases in our cities have already reached unacceptable levels and this is showing up in the big increases in respiratory illnesses . |
| 29 | Stephen took the stairs two at a time and threw open the bedroom door to see Tamar , sitting up in the big fourposter bed , nursing their son . |
| 30 | At half past midnight , Springfield drew the council of war to a close by pushing back his chair and standing up behind the big desk , where he had been sitting flanked by Grant and Deputy Fenton . |