Example sentences of "up [prep] a [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT LONG last we have a newspaper that will speak up for a referendum on Maastricht . |
| 2 | BLIMEY LOOK AT THAT The hand moves up for a squeeze on the hips . |
| 3 | BARCLAYS , the biggest plastic card issuer , is gearing up for a blitz on card fraud in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 4 | From the low admission rate , the nine hundred thousand in our revenue budget which was shown this year as savings , seven hundred thousand of which was met by fudging community care money in June is now short by three hundred thousand so at the end of this year there will be an overspend or rather a loss of income of three hundred thousand which will show up as a deficit on social services budget for this year . |
| 5 | BANK Officer Noel Crossley of Chapel-en-le-Frith Branch dressed up as a tomato on Comic Relief Day and went on a tour of the town with a collection bucket . |
| 6 | Janet posted a letter for me last week to a friend who I worked with at Ipswich , she was one of the girls behind the counter and at the moment they , her and her husband , he , he , he , he was on the , he finished up but he started as a lad in the kitchen but he finished up as a chef on the dining cars and they married and er and they 've got er two children erm they 're married to and , and we kept , we 've kept in touch with each other for sixty years |
| 7 | ‘ He 's more likely to set you up as a courier on an over-sixties package holiday to Majorca . ’ |
| 8 | Graham and Miss Gibson had been living at his house on the Riddings Estate in Scunthorpe but split up after a row on Monday night . |
| 9 | Britain 's invisible earnings , which are made up of a surplus on things like insurance and banking offset by government contributions to the European Community and overseas aid , are now projected to be about £2,670million in 1989 , less than half the £6,100million total earned in 1988 . |
| 10 | ‘ If you did n't light up like a firework on festa night whenever I touch you , I could understand . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A two-year-old is reaching excitedly out towards the hot soldering iron propped up against a saucer on the table . |
| 13 | With many years of experience , Eddie handled each situation as exampled in the last call of the day at Carpetwise , when Dave Walker , the proprietor jokingly strangled Eddie because of a delivery problem This was instantly resolved by a telephone call to head office and followed up with a discussion on the test marketing of Stoddard Templeton 's new fabric venture . |
| 14 | He was very drowsy , and as I had no intention of letting him wake himself up with a conversation on my private life or anything else , I said I did not believe in mixing business and pleasure , and , as I hoped , the cliché put him to sleep . |
| 15 | The problem is that the second question can not be answered until Washington comes up with a consensus on the first . |
| 16 | But it would take a pretty exceptional executioner to come up with a vegetable on the spur of the moment . |
| 17 | A young friend rang up with a query on weights for ribber work . |
| 18 | do you think your mother , your grandma should dress up with a mop on the back |
| 19 | The first sessions were taken up with a debate on the status of resolutions passed by the meeting . |
| 20 | I was , what I was afraid of , we 'd end up with a house on , on , on a tilt |
| 21 | I was quite surprised , er during the summer I went to my grandson 's school fete and they had a hot air balloon demonstration there and this er , this car turned up with a trailer on the back with , I du n no , probably some name , hot air balloon name on the trailer , I thought oh yes he 's gon na show us how to inflate it and i I was quite amazed from the time he unpacked the balloon to the time it actually took off was only ten minutes . |
| 22 | I finished up with a hand on her breast and my face within inches of hers . |
| 23 | Adam had a sudden awful vision of the spade going through that green turf and coming up with a skull on it . |
| 24 | If Anne reminded me of a gazelle , then Mrs. Constantine was like a snake : supple and seemingly without bones , smooth , lustrous , with wicked black eyes like stones and shining black hair twisted up into a knot on top of her head and a wide , wide mouth with disturbingly red lips and a flickering tongue that darted out to lick the crimson lips when she was concentrating on the cards . |
| 25 | NI takes a different subject every month , making its a valuable part-work which builds up into a library on development , a handy source of reference . |
| 26 | She crashed down the four steps , ending up in a heap on the landing . |
| 27 | She was wearing a jade green velour ‘ leisure suit ’ and her blonde hair was twisted up in a knot on top of her head . |
| 28 | McAllister , clad in her shabby bottle-green dress enlivened at the throat by a bit of cheap lace , her serviceable shoes on her feet , her hair simply tied up in a knot on top of her head , her hands red raw from hard and constant manual work , resignedly straightened up , to meet the gaze of Havvie and his friends . |
| 29 | Someone who 's forever pushing her hair out of her eyes , or stuffing it up in a clip on top of her head simply looks harassed . |
| 30 | ‘ I got my legs out of the way and curled up in a ball on the driver 's seat . |