Example sentences of "be [adv] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Rotherham are right up at the top of the table and they are there on merit . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been right up to the fence several times ! |
| 3 | Water 's been right up over the path two days or more , I reckon it 's loosened part o ’ the foundations under here . ’ |
| 4 | and as we 're right up towards the end and now after the bank holiday we 've had lovely fine weather anyway , we got off to the main road and turned at Fibwell traffic lights onto the A twenty one and we got the to end of the dual carriageway onto the tail end of the queue as it started into the road works so I just went over the central reservation and went back down the dual carriageway to the traffic lights at |
| 5 | The incomparable off-roader , its restyled interior also sets new luxury standards for a leisure vehicle — they 're fully up to the rich appointments of a Mercedes-Benz saloon . |
| 6 | ‘ But at England level you are always up against the best from another country and unless you get the basics right you are in trouble . |
| 7 | Do n't worry if your knees are way up in the air . |
| 8 | That is , when they 're not watching themselves in the mirrors , making sure that they are still up to the mark . |
| 9 | He thought that the Capra film had made ‘ greenish grass grow where there was only alkali dust before ’ because it consistently preferred ‘ the light touch to the heavy ’ and used actors ‘ who are thoroughly up to the work of acting ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Black people are really up at the moment . |
| 11 | They have professional obligations to engage in that kind of scholarly work ; and , in that sense , be right up against the ‘ frontiers ’ . |
| 12 | This morning , this morning you know , I 'm right up with the news is n't I ? |
| 13 | They could imagine what conditions must be like up in the mountains , having done their stint in the sticks at one time or another . |
| 14 | He soon comes into my old room cos he 's gon na be straight up on the bed , right . |
| 15 | Under the registration of inspectors advocated by the Bill , local government inspection will be universally up to the standard which at the moment only the very best attain . |
| 16 | I 'm either up in the clouds or down in the dumps — you ought to know that by now . |
| 17 | Leicestershire .... 26 North Midlands .... 28 WITH the County Championship due for another facelift , this winter 's finishing order will have a new significance and judging by last night 's lively encounter at Welford Road , North Midlands are well up with the situation . |
| 18 | Both are well up on the old 1.8 's 89hp and 101lbf ft , and ( even allowing for an extra 234kg/516lb of flab ) power/weight ratio has improved by 19% . |
| 19 | Mike Gatting will probably get the job this winter , but I doubt if either he or the two younger contenders , Mike Atherton and Alex Stewart , are quite up to the task of masterminding a major English renaissance . |
| 20 | ‘ If [ the searcher ] is a lawyer , private publishers supply annually updated texts which are almost up to the minute when purchased and databases which are at least adequate . |
| 21 | Now we are almost up to the present . |
| 22 | After a brief stay at Kyle we were soon up to the house and burn near Sandaig Lighthouse , the undisclosed setting , I suspect , of Gavin Maxwell 's otter book " Ring of Bright Water " , later to be filmed . |
| 23 | On the night I turned up in my red leotard and dippy skirt with a heavier than usual coat of paint on , to find , to my horror , that Cleo Roccas of Kenny Everett fame and a young lady much featured on Page 3 , called Gilly , I think , were already up on the stage , surrounded by a sixty-strong swarm of Street of Shame photographers , all climbing up each other 's anoraks and screaming ‘ Lean forward , Cleo — a bit further , give us a smile , lick your lips , Gilly — lovely , lovely — hitch that skirt up a bit … ’ |
| 24 | Her parents were always up at the front . |
| 25 | the degree can vary from the rider feeling that he is having his arms pulled out to the good feeling when the horse is keen to get on with his business — this is described as being well up to the rider 's hand . |
| 26 | He 's right up by the wishing wheel well or whatever it is . |
| 27 | But it 's right up against the house , it 's got ta come down . |
| 28 | And it 's perhaps up to the new civilian C P O to go to the likes of Mick and say I ca n't do this , I have not been trained to do it yet , until I have been trained to do it perhaps P C should continue using his skills . |
| 29 | It 's obviously up to the plaintiff to make the running . ’ |
| 30 | Duty on cigarettes is up ten percent — that 's thirteen pence on a packet of twenty , but on pipe tobacco duty is only up by the rate of inflation . |