Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was really touched when all the McCarthys drove up with a few bits and pieces . |
| 32 | ‘ Oh , a grateful girl like me can put up with a few bruises , ’ said Dolly , sheet and blankets up to her chin . |
| 33 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 34 | ‘ We 've come up with a few names . |
| 35 | So we think of them as being descriptive , but in reality , if you 're going to say to somebody , you 're very responsible , they 're probably not going to know what you mean , unless you come up with a few examples of what you 're talking about , of how they 've demonstrated that type of behaviour . |
| 36 | The video shop did n't open up until a few minutes after ten . |
| 37 | Welcome back to Central News South : Coming up in a few minutes , the farmer who 's taken maternity hospital technology and adapted it for the lambing season . |
| 38 | Welcome back to Central News : coming up in a few minutes , the sheep farmer who 's opened his farm yard to the public for the lambing season . |
| 39 | Coming up in a few minutes , the artist who 's had a six year love affair with the Malvern Hills . |
| 40 | Welcome back : Coming up in a few minutes , the wallaby farmer who 's got something of a baby boom on his hands . |
| 41 | Welcome back : Coming up in a few minutes . |
| 42 | But if Geoff does n't turn up in a few minutes . |
| 43 | Either way , a whole house-shell could be put up in a few hours by a few successive foam-formings of the main walls and pillars . |
| 44 | Do you have a rota system where if maybe six have got onto an appliance and there 's another fire comes up in a few hours that they can not turn ut again , or is it just a matter of whoever gets there first again ? |
| 45 | Although she had made some photocopies to study later , it was possible that Adam might be able to clear the matter up in a few moments . |
| 46 | I can not sum up in a few sentences what will be the substance itself of my book . |
| 47 | Each centre aims to build up in a few years the basis for energy conservation throughout industry , transport and construction — an ambitious target , which Chandler feels is achievable . |
| 48 | ‘ A lot of the simpler souls ’ , said Quigley , ‘ probably think a great big snake is going to slither out at them and start gobbling them up in a few years . ’ |
| 49 | Of course , where the wealth goes is a problem , since it often ends up in a few hands . |
| 50 | Often the drive surface is just skimmed with tarmac which breaks up in a few weeks . |
| 51 | But I could go up in a few weeks . |
| 52 | Lothar replied that he simply had a skin complaint that could be cleared up in a few days . |
| 53 | The barges , designed to be sailed by one man and a boy , could be laid up in a few days . |
| 54 | From a conservationist viewpoint , Hong Kong 's problem can be summed up in a few words : too many people . |
| 55 | Even that will be used up within a few months , when further recourse to the IMF will be inescapable . |
| 56 | ‘ I hope to meet with the CAA in the next 10 days and we might be able to tie everything up within a few weeks , ’ he said . |
| 57 | It broke up within a few years of Anselm 's death under the impact of forces which were too strong for it . |
| 58 | It referred to a note which he 'd included with the Firearm Certificate application form and the fee , saying that he ( Sampson ) had a chance at a Weatherby Magnum Deluxe rifle at a price that was madness , but only if he could wrap the deal up within a few days . |
| 59 | Jenny came back from Rome and rang Sara up within a few days of arriving home . |
| 60 | At the 13th , Woosnam was heckled and a cheer went up from a few spectators as he put his drive into the creek . |