Example sentences of "be up with the " in BNC.

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1 Town are up with the pacemakers for promotion .
2 By now , 1345 hours , the Colonel had been up with the leading Troops for more than because two hours , and as the short Arctic day was drawing to a close he ordered the withdrawal to begin .
3 That morning Sara had been up with the dawn to walk for the last time in the castle grounds to say goodbye to her doves , her servants , her horses and her hounds , the last of which seemed to sense what was happening and started howling as soon as she had departed .
4 ‘ You must have been up with the famous Ord Gaunt ? ’ says the man whose name Howard did n't quite catch , and the dense Middle English blackletter in which the words are uttered exactly matches their resonant profundity .
5 He would be up with the morning chorus , while Beth was happy to mooch around for hours in her nightdress , drinking black coffee , smoking cigarettes and watching breakfast television .
6 This year a bumper crowd is expected to turn out for Northern Ireland 's premier triathlon event at Portaferry in July , and Alastair should be up with the front runners .
7 I mean , you could be up with the fucking could n't you ?
8 I honestly believe that because they 're certainly not strong enough erm to be up with the top boys , well they 're not going to disgrace themselves having said that , as I said before , the League 's pretty well evened out , but I think they 'll be at the lower part rather than the top part .
9 Do you think it helps them being up with the ?
10 I thought you were up with the latest fashions .
11 So it 's up with the lark , my girl ! ’
12 ‘ What 's up with the man ?
13 ‘ What 's up with the fellow ?
14 The voice is still languishing , wasted in its rumpled bed , but the guitar is up with the sun , out the window and scaling such dizzy heights that it manages to drag the chorus into a deliciously wounded country yodel .
15 In future , schools will publish more information in a comparable format , so that parents can see easily whether their child 's school is up with the best .
16 Matt is competing in Germany in the European Cup and is up with the leaders …
17 He had to see what was up with the sheep .
18 Now I was up with the world 's elite sprinters , with Ben and Carl , Calvin and Dennis .
19 I thought that as I was up with him , I was up with the leaders .
20 You know both sides were very happy you know it was up with the company or down with the company you know , and I think certainly the younger lads sort of saw it as an infringement upon their future , you know we 've all got mortgages and the o older men who 'd been working since the quarry started you know were gon na see a drop in their standard of living , so I think you know people were getting a bit upset you know that a n a new fella h a new face had come in , and all of a sudden you know changes were being made that were gon na hurt everybody financially .
21 Andy Melville was up with the attack and took his chance well .
22 Well we nearly when I was up with the children at the to when I was
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