Example sentences of "[noun pl] up at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Well like , for example , we have excellent educational psychologists in Oxfordshire and erm we have advisers for children with special needs in Oxfordshire , and they are extremely useful people in helping out those many children who are not like the average run of children and have specific and particular problems , and I was very fearful that eventually an opted out school might turn its noses up at such children , and I think they needed protection , so that 's one example . |
2 | There were no lifts lifting the cars up at that time . |
3 | When the Duke died of dropsy in 1827 , his financial affairs were in such a state that his executors took the unprecedented step of placing his chattels up at public auction , entrusting the sale to the young James Christie . |
4 | In the non-Midlands games there was a breathtaking finish at Vicarage Road where Bruce Rioch 's team were three goals up at one stage . |
5 | Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes . |
6 | Profits up at Royal Scottish |
7 | The island is an ideal location where new ocean crust wells up at active ridges near the surface , rather than deep beneath the ocean . |
8 | And you see there 's no permanent fence to the fields and so therefore I could put gates up at that road if I wanted to , but the Council has never consulted me about going to look at it , or going over my road . |
9 | IT 'S an old chestnut that crops up at this time every year . |