Example sentences of "[am/are] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're up like a lark the next morning . |
| 2 | Because when my government does see the pattern — you 're quite right they do n't want to see it right now and my D-G is n't helping them — but when these people do the next thing , and it 'll have to be something big — they 're up against a deadline on Berlin they 've already escalated it from forged documents to drugging people to shooting them God knows what comes next well when something new happens the lone psychopath theory will be dead , dead , dead . |
| 3 | I mean we 're up against a wall . |
| 4 | Now I do n't see that there 's likely to be any connection , but since we 're up against a brick wall in the Stavanger case , I 've come to pick your brains . " |
| 5 | " You say you 're up against a brick wall — well , that 's just where we got to in the Southwark Bridge case . |
| 6 | Our solicitor is fighting for that , but we seem as though we 're up against a brick wall at the moment , so we 'll have to just wait and see . |
| 7 | Crusaders know only too well they 're up against a class outfit . |
| 8 | The alternatives are up to a pint of seed bait , such as sweetcorn , a pint of casters , etc . |
| 9 | In their personal freedom I would n't say they are free like English girls but they are up to a point . |
| 10 | They and the opposition are up against a tradition of oppression that goes back to Tamerlane . |
| 11 | We are up against a ceiling and if we added new areas to the map , we should have to remove other areas . |
| 12 | The water authority responded with its case : ‘ We are up against a lot of pressure from landowners to do something about the flooding . ’ |
| 13 | Dividends are up by a quarter to 11.4p , after a final of 7½p payable on May 27 , with earnings growing in line to 54½p . |
| 14 | I 'm up on a stage , with a play going on all round me , but no one 's given me a script and I do n't know what to say or do . |