Example sentences of "[pron] [be] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm up for promotion , and there 's Erika … . ’ |
| 2 | We 're at a loose end , Cynthie and me — I 'm up at Trinity , you know , but I 've been ill — ha ha ! — and have to stay down this term . |
| 3 | I 'm up with Daniel again . |
| 4 | Oh yes , I 'm up with Shel are n't I ? |
| 5 | I 'm up to date and I can see it 's going to change in the future really . |
| 6 | I 'm up in court next week on a shoplifting charge , but I 'll only get a suspended or something like that . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll try and grab a haircut while I 'm up in civilization . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ There 'll be no need for anything like that , ’ said Charlie ‘ I 'm up from Whitechapel and the only bowing and scraping you 'll be doing in future will be for the customers . ’ |
| 9 | You know when I were up at Darren 's |
| 10 | when I were up at Darren 's . |
| 11 | Someone 's up to naughties . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I was up at Sea House one night , looking in through the window — " |
| 15 | Bloody morning I was up at quarter to nine ! |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | I was up at Lancaster when Liverpool got it . |
| 18 | I had a duck-billed platypus when I was up at Trinity , |
| 19 | ‘ Because there were telephone calls to make and various matters which needed my attention , I was up at dawn this morning , ’ Vitor told her . |
| 20 | I was up before Geoff this morning see . |
| 21 | ‘ I was up in Norwich when I doubled over in agony because the thing had moved inside me . |
| 22 | Yes did n't buy any new ornaments when I was up in Liverpool cos I did n't see anything that I particularly liked but what Carla has done gives me an idea for making some extra bits for the tree Where did you get that from ? |
| 23 | I was up in Oregon at the time and got back to find that the tremor had shoved the sewage pipes up a few inches and thrown the water out of the lavatories , a well-known portent of Satan 's arrival , if you believe the infernal guidebooks . |
| 24 | The last time I was up in Wharfedale it was with a London friend , a media man whose idea of the wide open spaces is Wimbledon Common . |
| 25 | ‘ I was up in Oxford at the beginning of this week , ’ she said , as casually as she could . |
| 26 | In addition , I no longer saw any of my old friends while I was up in London and my Hampstead flat felt rather empty without them . |
| 27 | Yeah well b well what I 'm trying to say and I ca n't emphasise it too strongly is that I do n't want anybody going round like writing another stupid letter to somebody saying that erm you know the reason we 're inundated that it has n't been advertised properly cos I tell you what it 'll come back right in our faces cos it 's our bloody fault Well that 's right well we know that I mean I told them all I told them all quite clearly when I was up in Glasgow that they 'd be quiet for at least a month because p it 'll take time to filter through . |
| 28 | Oh if I was up in Yorkshire I would . |
| 29 | The tuberous rootstock , up to 4ins ( 10cms ) long , is cylindrical and bears a rosette of leaves which are up to 12ins ( 30cms ) long and 3ins ( 71½–8cms ) wide . |
| 30 | Keith Wells pointed out that the title Sheffield Shares is deliberately ambiguous — it can be taken to mean Sheffield 's shares , as in ‘ shares ’ which are up for grabs by keen or greedy speculators ( my interpretation ) , but it can also mean Sheffield shares as in ‘ shares its wealth ’ — ‘ and that 's basically what we are trying to initiate here . |