Example sentences of "be up the creek " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , they 're up the creek . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I think we 're up the creek . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We 're up the creek because we do n't know where to go from here . ’ |
| 4 | They are also thinking too much about what counts and when you do that you are up the creek , and at the moment Gloucester have not got a paddle |
| 5 | For a while there I thought we were going to be up the creek without a paddle . ’ |
| 6 | He told her : ‘ I dare n't be otherwise — because if I were ever in a compromising situation , if the police raided or if someone kissed and told I 'd be up the creek . ’ |
| 7 | Erm , they write down nothing , they remember nothing , and I have to phone these clowns every other day , to make sure that they 're doing what we agreed they 're going to , otherwise I have no panels next month for my stand , and I would be up the creek . |
| 8 | you would be up the creek without your paddle would n't you ? |
| 9 | On the opposite side of the creek to Down in the Sewer is Up the Creek , HVS 5a which climbs the centre of the steep wall and the grooves above , ascended by A. Thornton & M. Evans . |
| 10 | Chairmen of football clubs are only in the papers and on the radio when the team is up the creek . |
| 11 | Such as that I was trying to use the priesthood as an escape from my personal frustration , that I was dramatizing my own situation , that I was proud and vain , that my idea of Catholicism was up the creek . |