Example sentences of "be so [adj] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sorry to write like this when you are so hard up yourself — Please do n't think I 'm bemoaning — but honestly this house is insupportable . |
| 2 | He had to be brilliant , she thought , to be so well up in his profession at his age . |
| 3 | Thank you for my dinner , I 'm So full up |
| 4 | ‘ They sure need to be good boys , being so hard up . |
| 5 | ‘ I had n't realised we were so high up . |
| 6 | Liz is said to have commented : ‘ I 'm sorry Raquel is so hard up she has to do a film that rips off my life . |
| 7 | A BARONET with a 1,300-acre estate is so hard up he has been reduced to eating free spuds provided by one of his tenant farmers . |
| 8 | It 's so cheap up there . |
| 9 | They sold it Christmas Eve day it was gon na go through the twenty third , Christmas , the day before Christmas erm it was gone and they were supposed to fly over to Spain and they were gon na , gone , exchange a contract to sell it and then she phoned me back and she said I 've got some good news for you , we 've decided not to sell , it 's so beautiful up there and it 's called Los |
| 10 | ‘ It was so misty up there , I could n't be sure of anything . ’ |
| 11 | I sent a letter to Mrs Thatcher saying if she was so hard up as only to pay us 40p , then she could have the money back . ’ |
| 12 | It was so high up , it whined like a fly . |
| 13 | He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years |