Example sentences of "up a [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes we used to go to see her , and she came up a couple of times . |
| 2 | It 's interesting that team briefing thing on there , because that 's come up a couple of times recently , people have mentioned about erm team briefing as a sort of management system . |
| 3 | took the kids up a couple of times and then Mick and I have been up there with the |
| 4 | I was up going on the ski slope , and this is like , I 've been up a couple of times before , but it had been really cold and bi and I went at Easter , I was so like hot , but it 's still really good snow , and we went up there and I just could n't believe it , I just went dad , erm , oh , I do n't feel too good , and he just went , do n't be so stupid , and Nathan and I collapsed , I was at the front of this queue waiting for the ski lift and the whole queue just went |
| 5 | After the computer has been started up a number of times — possibly 90 — the damage starts . |
| 6 | He picked up a copy of Time magazine , the cover story was about Canada ; maybe the British Dominion would be the compromise . |
| 7 | He found that the canonry and the cathedral , and the administration in the university , took up a lot of time . |
| 8 | The problem was that we were firefighting not just for ourselves but for so many of our clients , and firefighting takes up a lot of time and emotionally is a strain . |
| 9 | Campaigning is a demanding business and it swallows up a lot of time without guaranteeing success , said group secretary George Knowles . |
| 10 | There I finally decided to throw in my efforts at making contact with the Delhi eunuchs ; it was taking up a lot of time and there was still no hint of a breakthrough : after ten days I still knew as little about them as I had when I had begun . |
| 11 | And after I got the job at the centre , erm that took up a lot of time for er a few weeks till I settled down . |
| 12 | It is not very good , you see , on Government responsibility and this takes up a lot of time . |
| 13 | This all takes up a lot of time ; we are under great pressure today . |
| 14 | She says her husband has another business — which takes up a lot of time . |
| 15 | But anyway I know it takes up a lot of time and a lot of our columns . |