Example sentences of "up [prep] [adj] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for soon after that me father had to give up the mine be because of his health and he went to work at the depot er were the bus depot and he worked in the battery house where they made all the batteries up , charged the batteries for the buses , looked after the electrical side there was electrician , he were n't , me father were n't electrician but he was working with electrician but his main job was charging the batteries , putting them on in groups in the , in the er battery house and charging house , to keep all the batteries charged up for all the buses petrol buses tr and trolley buses . |
| 2 | HEARTS ' John Robertson yesterday spoke up for all the members of Scotland 's impromptu squad to face Germany when he railed against any suggestion that the side who will tonight take on the world champions at Ibrox is made up of ‘ second class citizens ’ . |
| 3 | were n't buggered up for all the characters . |
| 4 | Step forward Ben Pearson of Welwyn Garden City , who writes : ‘ Dear Bizzerk , I 'm a bit of a man 's man , me , and I 'm fed up of all the blokes writing in who just want to hang around with other blokes . |
| 5 | Step forward Ben Pearson of Welwyn Garden City , who writes : ‘ Dear Bizzerk , I 'm a bit of a man 's man , me , and I 'm fed up of all the blokes writing in who just want to hang around with other blokes . |
| 6 | The poll early next year would elect a coalition government made up of all the parties winning more than a minimum number of seats to lead the country to majority rule in the year 2000 . |
| 7 | There 's old mattresses up against all the walls and someone 's stuck hundreds of egg boxes on the ceiling . |
| 8 | In October 1945 Sir Orme Sargent , soon to serve as permanent under-secretary in the Foreign Office , wrote of the awful threat posed by the " almighty dollar " and of Britain 's duty , in company with France , to build herself up against both the superpowers . |
| 9 | I usually call myself half German because people get so fed up with all the Germans who say they 're Austrian . ’ |
| 10 | The only girl , Roberta , or Berta , as the family called her , was the same age as her cousin Sandy and although ‘ chesty ’ as they said , she was certainly spirited enough , and more than kept up with all the boys . |
| 11 | Sometimes , too , it is possible to make the mistake of thinking that she is expecting us to come up with all the answers when , often , all she wants is the opportunity to state the problem to someone who understands and will not criticise her . |
| 12 | So at the start of the second week I will want to put a master sheet up with all the headings on |
| 13 | Because of his father 's incapacity , Leonard grew up with all the advantages of family prestige , and few of its responsibilities . |
| 14 | I just have to put up with all the humiliations that fall on my head in this great country ! |
| 15 | He could make five thousand more in the City , but he 'd have to put up with all the yuppies . |
| 16 | End up with all the needles dropping off . |
| 17 | Nobody could keep up with all the chemists nowadays , for example ; though someone might from time to time attend enormous congresses of chemists , he or she would go to papers devoted to his or her special branch of the subject . |
| 18 | Obviously , because I 'm a sportsman , I keep up with all the sports programmes . |
| 19 | She been writ up in all the cinemas . |
| 20 | The length of follow up in all the studies ( median six weeks ) was short relative to the generally accepted desirable duration of treatment in this population . |
| 21 | Now , it 's not clear to me at the moment that that is going to be the direction , say , of the Roman Catholic Church , because we seem to have a much more conservative Pope and there are conservative movements growing up in all the churches , you 've only got to look at Reagan 's America and the way you find counterparts to that kind of religious conservatism in all the European countries . |
| 22 | It was one and a half hours later before they reached him , caught up in all the plants , still shouting ‘ What have I done ? |
| 23 | When you finally get down to it , the machine knows how reluctant you are , so it play up in all the ways it can think of . |
| 24 | My handicap went up in twos the winters I spent with him . |
| 25 | And was that emotion hatred picked up from all the disasters , the closures , the hopes , the ideals — all crushed , all violated , all laid waste ? |
| 26 | For instance , the note describing the Central Pillar of Freney is likely to tickle a few egos : ‘ ED+ , rock to VI and A3 , mixed — at the end of the world and , given bad luck , delivered up to all the hells of weather . ’ |
| 27 | All they broke all the windows went up to all the shops do n't you remember ? |
| 28 | That means turn up to all the practices and stick with it and join the orchestra and play in concerts as you get better all right ? |
| 29 | You know what them stallholders are , up to all the tricks . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Our players will have to keep their discipline because the Cypriots will be up to all the tricks . |