Example sentences of "up [prep] a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the Stenness Hotel has been up for a while then . |
| 2 | ‘ Yeah , I picked it up for a song about twelve years ago . |
| 3 | If you 've signed up for a Barclaycard recently , or joined the AA , you will probably have been tempted by the offer of ‘ free accommodation ’ in a ‘ superb range of hotels in the UK and Ireland ’ . |
| 4 | It 's certainly a , a day of reflection an and great appreciation on a part of all of us , the reason we 're here er for me , personally , I need to back up for a moment perhaps . |
| 5 | Cos I 've got to take these kids up for a bath soon er er you can stay |
| 6 | Erm , I wear make up as a mask basically gives me confidence and it stops me having to be myself which I feel is n't good enough for the public |
| 7 | Int he trained up as a welder now ? |
| 8 | News of Clive Gregson and Christine Collister splitting up as a couple sadly signalled the end , too , of a fruitful artistic union . |
| 9 | Her only son died aged 23 while a Japanese prisoner of war after joining up as a volunteer instead of pursuing his exempt profession as a metallurgical chemist . |
| 10 | She usually pho phones you up about a month afterwards , you know there is a sort of a problem . |
| 11 | So they 're going to finish u they should finish up with a quarter so again this sharing sometimes it works okay and we just get a normal counting number . |
| 12 | This time , Mr Kaifu was convinced , the Americans would not be shut up with a promise here , a concession there . |
| 13 | Since this is rarely so , a deft body evasion , backed up with a counter-block just before the moment of the attack 's impact , almost always pays dividends . |
| 14 | If you do n't get the chance to really freshen up with a shower then Femfresh has the answer . |
| 15 | Yeah , but you 've got to come up with a cost somewhere , that 's got to be . |
| 16 | If they come up with a question maybe just find out what 's being it erm not just reaction to a particular behaviour , but asking them how the feeling , you know maybe pointing to the bit in their body that 's actually feeling butterflies or whatever and trying to help them to express the fears and , more importantly , to make them concrete in terms of play , drawing , or acting it out . |
| 17 | It 's almost like the ceremony of ordaining a bishop in fact if I 'd turned the wrong page we could have ended up with a bishop rather than an abbot you know |
| 18 | Then she remembered ; the car , the box , the head , she sat up with a start only to clatter back down again . |
| 19 | A local estate agent carried out his own survey of the property and came up with a figure only about a fifth of the official valuation . |
| 20 | erm The response has been for that authority then to groin its bit of beach , and so we end up with a situation today where along the Sussex coast practically the whole of the coast is groined , except for the areas which are backed by high cliffs , erm where we have the sorts of rates of erosion that I mentioned . |
| 21 | ‘ They then end up with a photograph very different to what they intended . |
| 22 | It 's no problem when police drivers are learning their craft … but what starts as a simple skid can end up with a car totally out of control . |
| 23 | Now if you said to me er I wou to be able to get myself fixed up with a car then I need two weeks and that that suits us anyway you know if if you wanted to start next week and everything went right fine . |
| 24 | ‘ She 's a very sensitive child , though she 's had to put up with a lot already , her mother being ill so much . ’ |
| 25 | Never one to avoid controversy , millionaire screenwriter Joe Eszterhas has come up with a scenario even more controversial than the lesbian ice-pick outrage of Basic Instinct . |
| 26 | I did n't come up with a theory immediately , though I had hunches which were difficult to put into words . |
| 27 | Oh he used to wash them and he had a proper , he had a case what he made up with a rack so as he could drop them all in . |
| 28 | Nina was curled up under a bed upstairs . |
| 29 | I think another erm area is this question of erm you know dumping of toxic waste , and transporting of toxic waste , which after all could flare up into a disaster very rapidly indeed . |
| 30 | He knew they would be hurrying behind him , might even have heard his running steps on the path or noted , practised woodsmen as they were , the scatter of wood-pigeons that went up in a flurry ahead of him . |