Example sentences of "up [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's not for sale at any price — it 's more than a hundred years old , and was snapped up for a thousand pounds at auction . |
| 2 | In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds . |
| 3 | Do not stand up for a few moments . |
| 4 | We weighed each other up for a few moments without speaking . |
| 5 | I wonder if you 'd care to wander up for a few minutes and we could perhaps move this matter of Gray on a bit ? |
| 6 | I 'm gon na put me feet up for a few minutes , do you want now we 've nearly finished ? |
| 7 | She made to close the door on them when Mrs Phipps added , ‘ We 're gooin' from dower to dower ter get a collection up for a few flowers . |
| 8 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 9 | We actually split up for a few days because his mother sent a Christmas card to him and not to me . |
| 10 | ‘ I was hoping Kenny could put me up for a few days until I 'd sorted things out with my parents . |
| 11 | There 's no alternative , I 'm afraid , to covering up for a few days , using a higher SPF sunscreen and taking care to stay out of the sun as much as possible . |
| 12 | We 're going to put him up for a few days . |
| 13 | Lesley-Jane will be fine if she just rests up for a few days . |
| 14 | Cover up for a few days , use a higher factor lotion , and take great care . |
| 15 | Then the funeral was held up for a few days , and we soon realised that the effect was indeed cosmetic and nothing more . |
| 16 | Well if they come round to ours this year I 'll invite them in I 'll take them to my basement and I 'll lock 'em up for a few days . |
| 17 | We 'd sure love to put you up for a few days . ’ |
| 18 | instead of just going , you should of said oh I just come up for a few days |
| 19 | A few stragglers kept it up for a few seconds , then there was nothing . |
| 20 | He found it incredibly rewarding and had a couple of momentous experiences of such excitement that he tried to recreate the excitement instead of going back to what caused it ( the old Orgasmic-Goal orientation — see Dr Ruth , pages 12 to 461 ) , so he gave up for a few years . |
| 21 | In the past a Welsh dealer had brought ponies and kept them on the moors at Hartshead to fatten them up for a few weeks prior to the fair , and Mr Rawson had often helped to drive them from there to Lee Gap . |
| 22 | The customer gives up after a few months waiting . |
| 23 | And like Kim 'll be the first one to say she gave up after a few months |
| 24 | I made a mental effort to visualise his new house , to create some mind picture , but gave up after a few seconds . |
| 25 | Of crucial importance in the period of transition to democracy was the setting up of a specific negotiations commission under Cyril Ramaphosa , secretary-general of the ANC . |
| 26 | Among the projects carried out by ERA-WACC during the year were : a colloquium held in Moscow on the MacBride Report , entitled ‘ Europe speaks to Europe ’ ; a conference on communication ethics ( also held in Moscow ) ; a worship workshop for TV producers in western and eastern Europe ; and the setting up of a European Women 's network . |
| 27 | Under the banner of industrial democracy various changes have been proposed in the structure of the organisation , decision-making and ownership of companies , involving things such as compulsory councils and co-determination at the shop-floor level , the representation of workers on the board , and most recently ( in Sweden and Holland ) the setting up of a union-controlled wage-earners ' fund by capitalising a percentage of pretax profits , with the newly issued shares being placed in the fund and used to acquire interests in other companies and to supplement wages in the lowest-paid jobs . |
| 28 | An integrated circuit can be made up of a few capacitors , diodes , resistors and transistors or even thousands of them . |
| 29 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 30 | To supplement work-outs , he has come up with a global best-practices programme . |