Example sentences of "up [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | I 've got a continuation shot , well what I shall do is just try and line them up for a rush down to , which is not bad . |
2 | Well no you 'd be amazed what they do , if you leave Blu Blu- tac up for a while how it actually takes |
3 | So the Stenness Hotel has been up for a while then . |
4 | ‘ Yeah , I picked it up for a song about twelve years ago . |
5 | 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 ’ . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Cos I 've got to take these kids up for a bath soon er er you can stay |
8 | He was as psyched up as a footballer about to step out on to the field on Super Bowl Sunday — but he would be sustaining this level of feverish anticipation all winter . |
9 | 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 |
10 | Int he trained up as a welder now ? |
11 | News of Clive Gregson and Christine Collister splitting up as a couple sadly signalled the end , too , of a fruitful artistic union . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | She usually pho phones you up about a month afterwards , you know there is a sort of a problem . |
14 | Lysette has no fears that her marriage to hunky Luc will wind up like a scene out of Husbands and Wives or with the heartbreaking headlines that Woody and Mia have endured . |
15 | There is n't a back door and I doubt whether even you with that charmed life of yours can come up with a way out of this one . ’ |
16 | 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 . |
17 | This time , Mr Kaifu was convinced , the Americans would not be shut up with a promise here , a concession there . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | If you do n't get the chance to really freshen up with a shower then Femfresh has the answer . |
20 | Yeah , but you 've got to come up with a cost somewhere , that 's got to be . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 |
23 | Then she remembered ; the car , the box , the head , she sat up with a start only to clatter back down again . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | Employees in the leisure department have worked extremely hard to bring this prestige event to Stockton and we end up with a situation where the first person of the town is kicking us in the teeth . ’ |
27 | ‘ They then end up with a photograph very different to what they intended . |
28 | There were quite a few battles before Pearce got British Aerospace on the road to privatisation , particularly with civil servants and ‘ officials who were not really responsible , but tended to sit on the sidelines criticising and always coming up with a reason why you could n't do anything . ’ |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |