Example sentences of "up the bar " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly pull up the bar until it touches the chest , and then slowly lower it to arm 's length . |
| 2 | Bent-over rowing — slowly pull up the bar until it touches the chest |
| 3 | POOR old Jeffrey Bernard , so terrified of women , shaking in his frail , alcoholically reinforced misogynists shoes — cynical and brittle , propping up the bar and amusing his ( male ) audience by spilling his wit and intelligence in bar-room bons mots . |
| 4 | And she knew that her male colleagues would be propping up the bar of a public house , by eleven o'clock . |
| 5 | They walked back into the main bar and found Knocker mopping up the bar . |
| 6 | Dennis and the others were propping up the bar , Karen was supposedly selecting duty-free perfume . |
| 7 | Men propping up the bar over lunch will bewail the loss of earlier freedoms when they were footloose and fancy free . |
| 8 | Not content with propping up the bar at the Rovers , the Inspiral Carpets , who have decided to call their latest meisterwerk ‘ Revenge Of The Goldfish ’ thought it would be a spiffing idea to promote aforementioned article with a series of displays in record shops featuring a fully inhabited fish tank . |
| 9 | Trevor was not the sort of fellow who said , ‘ For art 's sake have I broken up the bar . ’ |
| 10 | He said : ‘ She appears when I am alone clearing up the bar . |
| 11 | Inside , Keith was propping up the bar and waving a £5 note at the landlady . |
| 12 | Duncan had left Myeloski propping up the bar , drinking his customary vodka and Budweiser chaser . |
| 13 | They may spend Saturday night together , and as often as not you see the men holding up the bar with their pints and the women sitting at the tables with their shorts . |
| 14 | In fact the only drawback about the Cube is that you 're more than likely to find one or two of the Sounds freelancers propping up the bar but , aside from that , there are n't many better ways to spend the approaching cold winter evenings than in the comfort of decent live music and good company . |
| 15 | ‘ Are youse ordering , or just blocking up the bar ? ’ said a smiling , thirsty man . |
| 16 | In fact the only drawback about the Cube is that you 're more than likely to find one or two of the Sounds freelancers propping up the bar but , aside from that , there are n't many better ways to spend the approaching cold winter evenings than in the comfort of decent live music and good company . |
| 17 | Now Johnny will continue to prop up the bar with a rum and black and the Echo crossword . |
| 18 | and er he saw the , he was with Trigger he says , he says keep calm , drinking calm , were in here my son , right , and er its the bit where he 's leaning on the bar and the bloke lifts up the bar and he just folds like a tonne of bricks sideways |
| 19 | If I want to change , I 'll put it , the only thing is , if we do go up the bar , I think I 'll be a bit warm , in something like this wo n't I ? |
| 20 | Go up the bar ? |
| 21 | The windows , covered with stone grids , conjure up the bars on prison windows . |