Example sentences of "up [prep] a [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because , ’ said Damian Flint , ‘ when antagonism springs up between a man and a woman , it 's really just a fight for supremacy . |
| 2 | The Dormouse woke up for a minute and then went to sleep again . |
| 3 | I must thank the judges who did a good job for us apart from three who entered , showed up for a while and were then missing when their turn was due . |
| 4 | but when he stumped up for a brandy and soda |
| 5 | Looks like you 'll have to sort of like put it up for a day and then take it down for a week and put it back in again . |
| 6 | I got an elbow in the face as I went up for a header and I remember putting my head down and running straight into Bull 's back . |
| 7 | Last week , Jarman had n't quite decided whether they were to talk to the audience or simply sleep through the exhibition 's four-day run — ‘ although they 'll be allowed to get up for a pee and lunch , ’ he added generously . |
| 8 | But you can only use it up for a month and then you . |
| 9 | I get all dolled up for a party and then I look at myself in the mirror and suddenly chicken out , put my jeans on , ruffle up my hair , and only then do I feel comfortable . ’ |
| 10 | When this goon is at the point of his beat furthest away from our stretch of wire , the Wing Commander will give the signal to Clinker here — ’ a dark beetle-like man stood up for a moment and sat down again , ‘ — who will fuse the entire lighting system of the camp including the searchlights . ’ |
| 11 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 12 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 13 | He said OK rewrite them , so I held things up for an hour and at the end of it he said he was n't convinced . |
| 14 | We get the whole thing seized up for an hour and a half in the morning and an hour and a half in the evening . |
| 15 | One of the colleges he listed invited Katrina up for an interview and she seemed to like it there . |
| 16 | He fled to Cyprus without his wife and set up as a storekeeper and contractor . |
| 17 | Dress up as a gorilla and chase people down Sunset Strip . |
| 18 | Dress up as a gorilla and chase people down Sunset Strip . |
| 19 | Schnadhorst was brought up as a Nonconformist and as a young man he acted as secretary to the Revd R. W. Dale [ q.v. ] , the pastor of Carr 's Lane Congregational church . |
| 20 | The Tanguts were northern enemies of the Han , and T'sao , the Han Chief of Staff , had pardoned a condemned man on the understanding that he would swallow a ball of wax , dress up as a monk and enter the kingdom of the Tanguts . |
| 21 | Sort of fix a room up as a theatre and bring the , some nursing staff in . |
| 22 | The play centres on the severe cultural disturbance generated by the fact that Clara , a girl , has been brought up as a boy and wants to remain one , while her brother , Lucio , has been brought up as a girl which he wants to remain , despite the fact that society is now demanding that both return to their normal gender ascriptions . |
| 23 | The artists themselves sometimes had a Jekyll-and-Hyde career , the prime example being the Australian bass-baritone Peter Dawson , who for many years dressed up as a Scotsman and hijacked Sir Harry Lauder 's songs , touring Scottish music-halls under the name Hector Grant . |
| 24 | LANtastic is a peer-to-peer system and because the memory requirement of LANtastic is low , each computer on the network can be set up as a server and still function as a regular PC . |
| 25 | He intends to set up as a PR and communications consultant , freelance writer and designer . |
| 26 | You follow me you were to keep it up as a habit and keep to the habit |
| 27 | His uncle John , 72 , who brought him up as a son and taught him to play the guitar , has died of lung cancer . |
| 28 | ‘ And who dressed up as a wino and held up the off-licence ? ’ asked Tim . |
| 29 | he ends up as a tramp and he gets to ah son get in and you know he fucking hanging out the back of the window we had , we had enough money to move to a bigger house right , and they got this little |
| 30 | ‘ He tried to set up as a fridge and freezer engineer , but that did n't work . |