Example sentences of "up there [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Yes it was a big , it was a square , big square room and er we were all young people up there except the foreman and erm some lived in , one lady live in she was named , then there was another one who lived in Street she was named and er there was a Violet there 's a Winkles butchers shop is n't there , Winkles have got one in Road at Willenhall , yes there was Violet and er
2 Something come up there onto the brink of the gulf ,
3 There was something up there beyond the landing , in one of the shuttered rooms .
4 In an upstairs bedroom — the kidnappers tended to avoid the downstairs rooms during daylight hours , despite the thick net curtains that screened them — the South African was seated at a table brought up there for the purpose .
5 He would have rested up there for the night , of course , and would drive down in the morning .
6 ‘ You 're not up there for the good of your health . ’
7 All kinds of signals going up there to the score board .
8 Norwich tend to concede too many goals but they 'll be up there at the finish and we 'll be up there with them . ’
9 The teams up there at the top are there on merit .
10 In truth , however , Phil himself was finding Nancy Wiseman a little too effusive for his liking and — perversely , as it seemed — would have preferred sitting next to Janet Roscoe , up there at the front of the coach , as he listened to ( and indeed almost wholly managed to hear ) the end of Ashenden 's introduction to Bath :
11 Okay well do n't worry do n't worry he ca n't you know just think of something though having said that if you look at the role that you played in the group moving towards the chairman 's style , taking over the group perhaps becoming and you were n't a person that sort of took over and forced your views on everybody but you were certainly up there at the front with and listening to people taking information and manipulating everything that you had to fit what was coming in from everybody so that does show Chairman 's skills , Chairman tendencies
12 no no the starlings seem to be pecking away at the top slabs are getting dry so I do n't know , er you see that man 's still up there , I wonder what he 's doing up there at the side
13 But then again you see they go out they think nothing of spending forty quid up there at the place on Friday night , Saturday night
14 Madame always had a little stage set up there at the end , and I remember thinking at the time , well , seven nights in a week and seven different acts , it 's one way of dealing with the situation .
15 ‘ All I know is that we are good enough to be up there at the end of the season . ’
16 Mickey what 's it looking at like , er up there at the moment , are the crowds arriving ?
17 You are telling me that up there on the stone face of Glasgow your soul was set on fire . ’
18 Please let me be remembered by something more adequate , less apologetic than the plaque , brown , one foot by two , up there on the wall by the Euston Road exit at King 's Cross : ‘ In Memory Of/The Thirty One People/Who Lost Their Lives/In The King 's Cross/Underground Fire Of/18th November 1987 . ’
19 ‘ There 's a clock up there on the wall , ca n't you see ? ’
20 It 's up there on the wall three hundred and sixty-five days a year . ’
21 ‘ One of your men is by the farm up above Santa Sofia there , above the river , up there on the way to the church . ’
22 You can start up there on the sky .
23 Let me , let me ask this lady here to come in , up there on the aisle , third row .
24 Number Three : Have you got your own personal cave up there on the cliff ?
25 A play runs for two weeks , but books stay up there on the shelf .
26 They had to get old Mr Letham in his green coat and brass buttons to struggle up and get the flag of clothes down , but up there , the last name carved in the sandstone right up there on the corner looking down over Glasgow , was in 1910 .
27 He simply wished that he did n't have to contend with the unspoken supposition that the two of them were hiding up there on the Step and banging away like a couple of baboons , which he saw in the eyes of more than one person who wished him good morning when he went into town to pick up his mail .
28 ‘ On that notice up there on the bank . ’
29 On this occasion , in fact , a reply of sorts did occur to me as I stood up there on the ladder ; a reply to the effect that those of our profession , although we did not see a great deal of the country in the sense of touring the countryside and visiting picturesque sites , did actually see more of England than most , placed as we were in houses where the greatest ladies and gentlemen of the land gathered .
30 What made the annual gathering even worse was we always had to listen to her recite the twenty-third psalm , standing up there on the stage in her white dress , white socks , black shoes .
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