Example sentences of "up [prep] one [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I climbed up through one of the thirteen gates and clambered over the piles of collapsed masonry blocking the way to the top of the citadel . |
| 2 | Hundreds of the fittest and fastest athletes tuned up for one of the most gruelling events on the sporting calander . |
| 3 | Eddie Hemmings is already inked in , but Nick Cook — still trying to puzzle out why he has been brought here but overlooked in favour of Keith Medlycott for the West Indies — may end up as one of the drinks carriers . |
| 4 | Oh he 's only twelve and ended up as one of the smallest birds |
| 5 | At Lowell , Massachusetts ( 1835 ) , a small Doric temple carried the track through a colonnade , made up of one of the four bays of the building . |
| 6 | As it was , British Coal 's intervention led needlessly to the break up of one of the last surviving High Victorian ensembles in England . |
| 7 | Stumbling slightly , she moved out of the way , propping herself up against one of the big windows . |
| 8 | In the evening rush-hour a lorry had skidded into a car and jammed it up against one of the pillar-boxes outside the hospital . |
| 9 | While Wakelate Sinister furtively discussed business with Lorimer 's father in an inner office , Lorimer had gratefully coupled with Cleo up against one of the cold , marble statues that lined a colonnaded walk along the back of the house . |
| 10 | As she opened her drawing-pad , Julius settled himself on the grass , his back propped up against one of the stones . |
| 11 | Millie would have been fiddling awkwardly with the thick brush of ginger hair coarser than her father 's , and even redder — that sprang away all round her face , while her cello case , which I had carried back for her , was no doubt propped up against one of the crumbling and gateless brick pillars in front of their house , like a portly little old man too out of breath to speak . |
| 12 | THE depleted North-Eastern Counties team will be up against one of the region 's leading Olympic hopefuls in the inter-counties championships at Corby today . |
| 13 | He 'd pulled up behind one of the newspaper vans , except it was n't a newspaper van . |
| 14 | But when you have a situation where youngsters of 12 or 13 — and in some cases even younger — who may only have won a couple of matches , are being offered $500,000 guarantees to sign up with one of the management companies before they are snapped up by one of the rival agents , the potential for long term damage is enormous . ’ |
| 15 | On the negative side it is difficult to see the advantage for Bergen Bank , which is getting mixed up with one of the most troublesome members of the already unfortunate Norwegian banking sector , where 1989 loss estimates of NKr1.6bn have been announced . |
| 16 | No wonder the manager got het up with one of the tabloids yesterday for printing a picture of Bryan Robson yawning behind his back in training . |
| 17 | So you sign up with one of the many armed and mobile security patrols that operate in the white suburbs . |
| 18 | ‘ I still believe I 've come up with one of the greatest innovations of modern times . |
| 19 | Yes , you 've heard it before but JOHN ROBB reckons that World Of Twist really have come up with one of the singles of the year in ‘ The Storm ’ . |
| 20 | Yes , you 've heard it before but JOHN ROBB reckons that World Of Twist really have come up with one of the singles of the year in ‘ The Storm ’ . |
| 21 | Welcome back … in a few minutes we 'll be catching up with one of the fastest men on water … |
| 22 | No decision has been made on whether to renegotiate with EASE , sign up with one of the several other electronic systems now operating , or , like County Auctions , develop its own system . |
| 23 | FRENCH exports of wines and spirits fell last year for the first time in 20 years as recession caught up with one of the country 's proudest industries . |
| 24 | For more than two decades he has led BMW , building it up into one of the industry 's most respected and successful marques . |
| 25 | His main role with the consultants was to open a new Scottish regional office in Edinburgh and from there he built them up into one of the largest transportation consultants in Scotland . |
| 26 | They go straight up into one of the bedrooms . |
| 27 | On the Saturday of my third weekend at the Palace Hotel I looked their address up in one of the telephone directories in my local library . |
| 28 | She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century . |
| 29 | It may be , therefore , that the dream-like quality of growing up in one of the most cultured courts in Europe had its own dangers for any who experienced it . |
| 30 | First love , unrequited love , chivalrous daring-do and spine tingling escapes , wrapped up in one of the theatre 's great set pieces , The Tower of London , and some of Sullivan 's loveliest music , including |