Example sentences of "was up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trouble was he lived at Selsit , which was up over the Pennine Way , across the high moor , and it meant a three-hour trek there and back . |
| 2 | She hopped clear and opened her wings and in one sudden jump was up on the bare branch . |
| 3 | The portrait of Melusina hung above the fireplace and this year 's cat calendar was up on the left-hand wall . |
| 4 | Harris , his coachman , was up on the driving box , while Lord John 's groom and valet were bringing on the saddle horses behind . |
| 5 | He reckoned the boy had doubled the price for his ice cream because he was up at the smart end of town , not plying his usual pitch at the bottom of the Acropolis . |
| 6 | Geoffrey Markham , the youngest Cumbermound boy , was up at the same time and they and the Bishop 's son , Thomas , formed something of a set . |
| 7 | Well the next morning I was up at the top gate on picket and erm came with his van and he he spelted up through and the lads jumped one side well , I 'm nearly sixty five I did n't jump so quickly . |
| 8 | He was up for a western , and he had the long hair , but after school he went to a barber and had his head shaved . |
| 9 | ‘ She was up for the entire morning , and this afternoon she must rest . |
| 10 | The subject of a bad reference can sue the referee for libel but has to show the referee was up to no good : spite , ill-will or some improper motive will do . |
| 11 | ( Gary was the only exception I knew to this rule , and then only when he was up to no good ) . ’ |
| 12 | It fell to Warrant Officer Dunston to ensure the service was up to an impeccable standard , not an easy task in the boiling heat of the summer of 1989 . |
| 13 | If it was up to the Labour Party it 'd be halved in two . |
| 14 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |
| 15 | Then he was up to the silvery layer of the surface . |
| 16 | The debtor was prima facie in the wrong and the creditor in the right , and it was up to the former to extricate himself from the charge to which he had laid himself open . |
| 17 | The scene , a stag-party 's post-pub , pre-dancing meal , was not going well : it was up to the fourteenth take , and the continuity man was looking frazzled . |
| 18 | He even tried sneaking back to the library at night , thinking the Bookman might appear after dark , but had to stop this when he backed into Mr Crangle , who was up to the same thing . |
| 19 | The level of orders received in the first quarter worsened compared with a year earlier , but turnover in the first quarter was up to the high levels of the year-ago quarter . |
| 20 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 21 | Now it was up to the Marine Commandoes . |
| 22 | Mr Eggar , Michael Heseltine 's secretary , said it was up to the local management to press the case for the pit to stay open to the independent consultants reviewing the pit closures . |
| 23 | But I was up against a big , strong lad called Eddie Evans in the Canada game and that was very hard work . |
| 24 | No it the the head of the bed was up against the far wall the as you look in the room on the right . |
| 25 | Marjorie Bousfield was up against the national fours championship rink and lost 17–28 , Dulcie Harbin lost 25–14 , while Pearl Wright , after drawing 9–9 at ten ends , went 22–15 . |
| 26 | Rocastle was the only player who was up by the halfway line when we broke away , all too frequently and any long punt by the defence fell to the feet of Blackburn players . |
| 27 | ‘ The one positive sign I 've seen recently is that public sector spending was up in the third quarter of 1993 . ’ |