Example sentences of "be up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | They 're up at the castle . ’ |
2 | We 're up on the third floor here . |
3 | If you 're up for a ‘ tart ’ part you must be prepared to present a flavour of the role as you see it . |
4 | In the Unification Church and they 're stealing a march on us right enough and that 's what they 're doing — stealing that march — and they 're up to no good in their unification and I know they 're not and they know I know they 're not and that 's why it all happened . |
5 | It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it . |
6 | They 're up to the roof are n't they ? |
7 | and the Tory , you know they 're giving them victory because they they supposedly we 're we 're up to the , up to as many er we 're level with the with the Labour party now . |
8 | As far as I can make out we 're up to , we 're up to the darts competition |
9 | It 's actually and that 's the most absorbent time , your mind 's most absorbent where you 're up to the age of five which is when you should when you 're at nursery school . |
10 | They 're up like a lark the next morning . |
11 | The God books to be found , yeah they 're up in a high place . |
12 | ‘ We 're up in the air at the moment , ’ Bono concludes a line of conversation where we 're wondering about the direction and attitude of new music ( But can you trust it ? ) especially those current wagon hoppers such as Killing Joke ( J'accuse ! ) . |
13 | We 're up in the air and our school 's down there |
14 | And she replied by saying , ‘ Well , they 're up in the loft . |
15 | up there with him to clean it out because I say , you can isolate things but you 're up in the air . |
16 | we 're up in the air for the goal of the week from the star of the week … |
17 | we 're up in the air for the goal of the week from the star of the week … |
18 | Because you know what , they 're up in the air are n't they ? |
19 | Where are you then , yeah , but , you 're up in the high |
20 | where are one , we 're up in the high are n't we ? |
21 | I 'll do it before you 're up in the morning |
22 | I mean we 're up against a wall . |
23 | From a black perspective you 're up against a white power structure and it does n't really matter whether you 're being beaten up or abused by the police or by a group of kids on the street , it all comes down to the same thing — racism . |
24 | Now I do n't see that there 's likely to be any connection , but since we 're up against a brick wall in the Stavanger case , I 've come to pick your brains . " |
25 | " You say you 're up against a brick wall — well , that 's just where we got to in the Southwark Bridge case . |
26 | Because when my government does see the pattern — you 're quite right they do n't want to see it right now and my D-G is n't helping them — but when these people do the next thing , and it 'll have to be something big — they 're up against a deadline on Berlin they 've already escalated it from forged documents to drugging people to shooting them God knows what comes next well when something new happens the lone psychopath theory will be dead , dead , dead . |
27 | Crusaders know only too well they 're up against a class outfit . |
28 | Our solicitor is fighting for that , but we seem as though we 're up against a brick wall at the moment , so we 'll have to just wait and see . |
29 | you 're up against the power relationship that each patient is caught up in with their consultant . |
30 | You 're up against the factory conveyor belt system of sewing when you , one person does only ears and the other does bodies and |