Example sentences of "up [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I definitely think she ought to have have a check up better to have a check you and it be nothing , than just keep hanging on saying it 'll go away and it does n't , it just gets worse . |
| 2 | But unhappy names are not ready to give up enough to produce a settlement . |
| 3 | When these two holes are lined up just push a panel pin or maybe a nail or matchstick or something else suitable into the two holes . |
| 4 | And send a couple of your boys up here to keep a lookout . |
| 5 | Er he 's in London at the moment , he 's not at He should be up here , I do n't know what he 's doing in London on a Saturday morning , he 's supposed to be up here having a surgery somewhere . |
| 6 | So when we come up here to make a presentation let's put aside at the moment the content of what we actually say what do we what do we need to think about ? |
| 7 | No matter how much Signe varied the speed , Harvey 's hand was up there providing a wall against which her hand smacked , until he snatched his hand away and she toppled into his arms . |
| 8 | Moira shouts ‘ Scottie is that you up there watching a mummy 's and daddy 's video ? ’ |
| 9 | Foley , stony-faced , told him that the dirty tricks brigade , led by Charles Fraser-Smith , had turned up earlier to make a replica of the prisoner 's uniform , correct in every detail . |
| 10 | When I was nine and they were out for the evening I stayed up late to watch a horror movie and had nightmares . |
| 11 | FACING PAGE Many dogs will instinctively jump up either to seize a toy or as a greeting . |
| 12 | I was busy cooking , blissing out on the aroma of cod in a yoghurt and fresh coriander sauce , and was n't really listening , but through the vapours there penetrated the fact that in Derbyshire they were queuing up recently to do a route on Raven Tor which is ‘ easy 8a , ’ in order to get into a book which David Jones has assembled on climbers — particularly those who can climb 8a . |