Example sentences of "up [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first person soon flew gracefully to the bottom of the hill , staying up for over a minute . |
| 2 | There were no serious injuries , but one passenger was cut by flying glass and traffic was held up for over an hour . |
| 3 | And it fucked it up for about a second or three seconds afterwards . |
| 4 | It 's been lying up for about a year and a half |
| 5 | The wire hangers rang together like bells and kept it up for almost a minute . |
| 6 | Actually , Ms Onoue also seems likely to stack up for quite a bit short of a billion when it comes to payback time . |
| 7 | ‘ I could keep this up for quite a while ! |
| 8 | That 's it tap it up about here a minute . |
| 9 | We also got unanimous sympathy for pissing on Spurs , but ending up with just a point . |
| 10 | If so , public opinion in the western democracies would probably put up with quite a lot of blood and bodies . |
| 11 | She only did , them drama people came up with quite a lot ideas |
| 12 | The fact that the Ceauşescus had countless colour televisions added to the perverse aspect of their superabundance since ordinary Romanians had to put up with only a couple of hours of black-and-white television each day — and that largely devoted to the doings of the residents of the Palaţul Primaverii . |
| 13 | The next day , the villagers found Babushka dead in the straw , curled up with only an ox and an ass to watch over her . |
| 14 | Ira Sanchez was looking at the birds ; then he glanced up to where a man was taking bets on the far side . |
| 15 | The purchaser will have conducted its own investigation of the vendor 's business in the negotiations which lead up to either an agreement in principle or a more formal acknowledgement of agreement by the use of heads of terms ( see Chapter 1 , page 9 ) . |
| 16 | Three quarters of the respondents were using their system up to twice a week . |
| 17 | I saw a psychiatrist often during my stay , up to once a day , although the sessions seemed more like informal chats . |
| 18 | The French doctors started me on a long-term course of antibiotics that are commonly used in France to fight toxoplasmosis and my blood tests were stepped up to once a week . ’ |
| 19 | Up to now a current appeared to be absolutely essential for creating a magnetic flux . |
| 20 | On a purely practical note , all this added up to quite a bit in value and Ivy Cottage did not appear to have any extra locks or catches at the windows . |
| 21 | It adds up to quite an incentive for the ‘ King of the Park ’ Kenny McKinstry who will be bidding for an unprecedented sixth victory this year , and a second in a row in his Kaliber Subaru Legacy . |
| 22 | Zurich has benefited in its search for profitable target markets from having a strong international network , built up over nearly a century , with operations in 40 countries . |
| 23 | But Mansell is no less than thirty-nine seconds up on him , which means he has to make up at least a second a lap and preferably more . |
| 24 | We reckon in about four and a half years I should have gone up at least a grade , so , allowing for the usual increments , and assuming that the mortgage rate does n't rise above the present eleven per cent , I should think we could afford to let Juliet stop work then . ’ |
| 25 | Compared with 10 years ago , at the same point in the economic cycle , output is up by nearly a quarter , investment is up by a third , manufacturing productivity is up by more than a half and manufacturing exports are up by nearly three quarters . |
| 26 | On other occasions the product to be launched is considered to be over the limit of what can be given away and one creative idea which has now been taken up by quite a number of manufacturers is to raffle a small number of the items or to organise an amusing competition which journalists attending the launch are invited to enter . |
| 27 | Er this is why swimming 's been taken up by quite a lot , there are retir classes for people who 've retired and ca n't swim . |
| 28 | Car insurance premiums shot up by almost a quarter — and drivers will suffer 15 per cent rises over the next year . |