Example sentences of "up there [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emil beckoned me towards the kitchen end , and I went up there into the small lobby with a serving counter , a space that made a needed gap between the hot glittering galley and the actual dining area . |
| 2 | Meanwhile Saddam Hussein massed troops in northern Iraq in apparent preparation , said the United States , for an attack on the ‘ safe haven ’ set up there for the Iraqi Kurds . |
| 3 | Right up there to the yellow books . |
| 4 | With me coming from the North of England , everybody is pretty reserved up there at the best of times , so coming down to London and meeting Angie with an American accent and flitting around the room and speaking in a loud voice all the time , it was amazing . |
| 5 | Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's taken me so long to get ‘ Gunnell ’ up there on the giant Olympic scoreboard , I think I 'm going to carry on being called that for athletics purposes . ’ |
| 7 | Up there on the top step , looking down on Lucenzo 's bright fair head , she felt as if she stood on the brink of a great change in her life . |
| 8 | Never my best feature , my face is still swollen , up there on the left-hand side . |
| 9 | And of course er w wondered if this Land Rover would go up there with the four wheel drive . |
| 10 | Put that up there with the other one . |
| 11 | As far as the build quality is concerned , you 'd expect it to be up there with the best of the Japanese instruments , and you 'll be pleased to know that Jackson have not compromised their reputation here at all ; there 's nothing in the slightest ‘ second rate ’ about the Infinity . |
| 12 | As far as teeth flags go , though , it was up there with the best of ‘ em . |
| 13 | Reid said : ‘ Look at David 's total at the end of the season and he 'll be up there with the best . |
| 14 | ‘ But the style of rugby I saw in August over there , and that we have seen on their tour of France and England , indicates that before very long the Springboks will be up there with the best . |
| 15 | ‘ Now there 's a real desire and incentive to see British players up there with the best . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You 'd have been up there with the best of them by now . ’ |
| 17 | When it comes to deeds of great valour performed in the cause of king and country , the name of Rune is up there with the best of them . |
| 18 | And he is no doubt that Lawrence is up there with the best of them . |
| 19 | that wax that we made up there with the antique wax has n't turned out as well it did with Mansion polish so when you make it up |
| 20 | ‘ If we want to be up there with the big boys then let's study and use their tactics . ’ |
| 21 | I visited the local Oxfordshire set ups , that 's Williams , Benneton and Leyton House in the last couple of weeks , and all of them say ‘ Eddy 's got a good car , a good chassis , a good engine and he 's got good finance ’ , and they expect him to be right up there with the big names from the start . |
| 22 | Afterwards she admitted : ‘ That ranks right up there with the worst losses of my career . |
| 23 | I shall want a good start and be up there over the first few fences . |
| 24 | They then moved west to a new holding area at Bir Zalten , sixty miles south of the German positions at El Agheila , which had been recced by Mike Sadler who had flown up there during the first week in November . |
| 25 | We used to have a lot of good nights like that and this was up there among the best . |
| 26 | Up there among the coach-house windows it was all swimming light , free-style , and tolerance of the noise and warmth of the human commerce below . |
| 27 | In May , it opened a new petrol station in Hungary , to add to the 15 set up there in the early 1970s . |
| 28 | There were too many mirrors in the house : long , thin ones in polished mahogany frames , round ones , oval ones , and the gigantic mirror up there in the dark studio . |
| 29 | And while they were up there in the wide , blue yonder , they jabbered non-stop to each other over the radio . |
| 30 | Dot knew there must be people up there in the vulnerable places on the top floor because on their way through the draughty corridors they passed the lift-shafts , each with its rattling metal cage and fearful loops of cable and black rope dangling beneath like greasy snakes . |