Example sentences of "up [prep] a [noun] or " in BNC.
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1 | But experience can often make up for a yard or two of pace . |
2 | If you 'd like to meet up for a drink or something , do give me a call on the above number . |
3 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
4 | Do come up for a day or so if there is the remotest possible chance . |
5 | But give him his due , he does not give up for a scratch or two , and not even a dagger could hold him off for ever . ’ |
6 | There were connections there , safe houses where he could hole up for a week or more , while his American friends made arrangements to get him out of the country and into free Europe . |
7 | The afternoon audience steadily declined , built up for an hour or so in the late afternoon and then surrendered to TV , except for another late-night blip . |
8 | Wind was measured at 11.00 and 15.00 each day , but only counted if it kept up for an hour or more . |
9 | Amaranth had no wish to be caught napping in the lounge of the Grand Hotel ; how much better to return to ‘ Mon Repos ’ and put her feet up for an hour or so . |
10 | As we have seen , he argues that trade union government will be relatively centralised where agreements are drawn up for an industry or an entire country , and will be relatively decentralised where they are regionally- or plant-based . |
11 | There were no written rules or code of practice in the early years of the trade , and anyone could set themselves up as a coffin-maker or undertaker . |
12 | I woke up after an hour or so , and just leaned out of the window looking at the half-empty Main Street . |
13 | If the PNC Declaration of Independence constituted a major landmark in this process , the time has come to embark on another major step , that of declaring the setting up of a state or government structure . |
14 | FAR LEFT Always try to walk on the street with the dog up against a fence or wall . |
15 | ‘ Girls come up against an obstacle or two , maybe on tour , and they tend to give way instead of trying to overcome them . ’ |
16 | ‘ Girls come up against an obstacle or two , maybe on tour , and they tend to give way instead of trying to overcome them . ’ |
17 | HUNDREDS of swimming pools are so dirty you could end up with a rash or tummy bug , health chiefs cautioned yesterday . |
18 | Ideally this should be as part of a ‘ mock interview ’ set up with a friend or colleague . |
19 | Some people find it easier to give up with a friend or a group at work . |
20 | He points out that this safety exercise is about assessing risk where one set of circumstances might be alright within that particular discipline , but when you actually put that along the side of a similar sort of marginal safe systems , that are in other disciplines , er th that you might end up with a conflict or or or highlighting some form of erm er permutation , that could end up in in what satisfies all the codes and regulations and blue books and whatever , but at the end of can do this and nobody else can . |
21 | Surely the place would have the mental institution would have set you up with a home or something when you left ? |
22 | Hold up a finger at arm's-length , close one eye , and line your finger up with a picture or some other convenient object some way away . |
23 | follow up with a punch or … |
24 | Such projects were popular constructions in the late 1970s and early 1980s , and I am worried that once again the Welsh Office is trying to catch up with a fashion or a phase that has passed . |
25 | I 'll catch you up in a minute or two . ’ |
26 | The CO took his time as if savouring a titbit of information certain to delight its recipient , ‘ As you know , camp breaks up in a day or two . ’ |
27 | They 'll probably pick him up in a day or two . |
28 | and then he said something about do us cart one and a half cartwheels and end up in a crab or something , and she come flying across the room at me and I felt this foot go shwoo |
29 | He said he 'd pick it up in a month or so . |
30 | He picked it up in an hour or two and went on to the guitar . |