Example sentences of "up [prep] a [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They therefore decided to break up for a while because , Dustin said , ‘ I wanted my fling . |
| 2 | There is times I 've casually picked it up , dropped it on the floor and forgotten to pick it up for a while because I 'm on the phone and sometimes it is quite loud in my ear . |
| 3 | The arrival of the Italian soldiers was held up for a time while the Italian government bargained for an Italian to command the UN forces ( the commander is , as it happens , a Brazilian ) . |
| 4 | Proper planning was held up for a time until the route of the M4 was decided , as an early outline brought it through Harpsden and over Peppard . |
| 5 | The others , including the new drummer , had come to pick Keith up for a practice while I was there . |
| 6 | ‘ Amber always runs up for a hug when I walk through the door ’ , she says . |
| 7 | And I tried to save up for a car cos my son was in the army . |
| 8 | But it is not an offence to dress up as a policeman unless the uniform is used for personal gain . |
| 9 | Continuing down the and P and L account the erm tax charge , you 've seen a note in the erm preliminary results present erm handout is not in fact up as a percentage if you look at the operating er if you look at it in operating terms , there was a tax credit in in extraordinaries last year this therefore had reduced the nineteen ninety one tax charge comparatively , strip it out and tax chargee share was around twenty nine percent . |
| 10 | They do n't wish it to happen , but it becomes an impossibility almost for them to stand up to their rights , and Mr talks about rights and no rights is in abstract and we all know how difficult it is then to stand up as a minority when you 're surrounded by that majority , but I 've had personal representations |
| 11 | And it can be a hazardous time for the male — usually much smaller than the female — as he could end up as a meal if he 's not careful . |
| 12 | However , I was not willing to order the setting up of a court-martial before I had heard your version of what took place that morning . |
| 13 | A gene ca n't affect the wiring up of a brain unless there is a brain being wired up in the first place . |
| 14 | When he reached the hut Ariel had built , he found Kit Everard asleep on the threshold , curled up like a worm when a hoe has struck it in the earth , rust-pink and grimacing with his whole body , as if in pain . |
| 15 | The central membrane is threaded lengthways through the centre of the cylinder and also blows up like a balloon when the chamber is filled with grapes , only the pressure outwards is even , gently crushing the fruit in all directions . |
| 16 | I went back to Ralemberg 's house but it was all sealed up like a tomb so I left it alone . |
| 17 | If we get caught up in the ice that means she 'll pop up like a cork when the pressure 's on . |
| 18 | She glanced up with a smile as Connor came in , but her smile disappeared when she saw who was with him . |
| 19 | It 's hard to tell , cos I always seemed to be awake , but then I remember waking up with a jump when this voice comes over the loud speaker . |
| 20 | Alan Parker comes up with a winner when his cast of unknowns forms a working-class band that lights the torch of opportunity in Dublin 's mean streets . |
| 21 | The crucial difference is that a trust could be set up with a non-heir as trustee , whereas legacies remained always bound to the need for an heir to discharge them . |
| 22 | Overall what stands out from intercity comparisons such as these is that firstly , London 's difficulties are echoed elsewhere , which is comforting since it is generally easier to put up with a problem if you know that others share it . |
| 23 | If , on the other hand , you introduce your ferrets via holes from the burrow system that show , say , 10 yards ( 9 metres ) from the tree trunk you simply drive your rabbits towards the major roots , not away from them , and can end up with a problem where thick roots prevent digging down to retrieve your ferrets . |
| 24 | The bridesmaid eventually turned up with a tale as long as her arm as to why , which nobody listened to . |
| 25 | Even in the ‘ settled ’ areas , where the US and the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control ( UNFDAC ) have been active , efforts to eradicate opium by crop substitution have run into trouble for one simple reason : in 30 years , no one has been able to come up with a product as lucrative and easy to market as opium . |
| 26 | But you c My impression is that you still finish up with a contradiction if you use terminology like in the Greater York area when there is and stick to the existing definition of that area . |
| 27 | He commented : ‘ We were woken up with a jolt when we found out that Spinneys were going to be bought out by some ‘ jocks from over the border ’ . |
| 28 | They feel the fighting is justified because their religion is something worth supporting and fighting for because if everybody just accepted what the other said then no-one would have the right to choose and end up with a dictatorship where one person is saying what they believe in and nobody fights back so everybody would end up having to agree . |
| 29 | The Royal Navy rapidly came up with a countermeasure once it had discovered exactly what circuits Exocet used to foil attempts to head it off . |
| 30 | In this instance we have used five-year steps for both age and service , coming up with a result as in figure 7 . |