Example sentences of "up [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |
| 2 | She was out every evening , sometimes staying away all night and coming back in the afternoon only to tart herself up for the next evening away . |
| 3 | He usually sleeps for a couple of days and then slowly builds himself up for the next trip . |
| 4 | Unfortunately I am tied up for the next month or so with filming commitments , but I hope we can arrange some time in July . |
| 5 | Angry with Nutty for her pigheadedness and superior airs , Nails did not turn up for the next swimming lesson . |
| 6 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 7 | They 're warming us up for the next attack . ’ |
| 8 | He said : ‘ I am 24 now and I am signed up for the next five years . |
| 9 | He was also afraid that when he turned up for the next practice , Amber and Jeopardy 's argument would be resolved , and he would no longer be required . |
| 10 | Dana has missed a few fittings , but the earth wo n't stop turning and I 'm sure she 'll turn up for the next one . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ My rent is paid up for the next six months , ’ Caro had assured her airily , ‘ before I knew I was leaving . |
| 12 | I sat up for the next few nights , my head poking out of the back skylight of the loft , my ears straining for the tinkle of glass breaking or muffled curses , or the more usual signal of the birds being disturbed and taking flight , but nothing more happened . |
| 13 | ‘ Sorry , I 'm tied up for the next couple of months with long-haul business trips , ’ Ashley interrupted . |
| 14 | They holed up for the next two days in Leatherslade Farm House … at Oakley twenty seven miles away . |
| 15 | Christie … of course and two more Redgrave and Pinsent the Olympic rowers who this week started their build up for the next games … yes … in four years time … they 're our special guests in this week 's Friday Feature |
| 16 | Events lined up for the next few weeks include Indian dancer Bisakha Sarker performing as part of a Verbal Images event , a European Youth Dance Night , The Cholmondleys and V-Tol Dance Company . |
| 17 | But the way he 's going he could just end up as the next Vinnie Jones . |
| 18 | We believe that the downturn has genuinely bottomed out now , however , and we will be watching for a pick up during the next three months . ’ |
| 19 | The 1990 Broadcasting Act means that three new independent radio services and a fifth television channel will be set up during the next Parliament . |
| 20 | So what are your plans in the next year or two as we head up towards the next winter Olympics ? |
| 21 | These feelings can build up into the next repeat of the same interchange . |
| 22 | Both of these are therefore reflected in the file as being attributes of the assembly and so are rolled up into the next hierarchical level . |
| 23 | And er I I as I say I moved up into the next er school . |
| 24 | And he said he was working with an old fellow which is getting on in age and he was quite absent minded and he said , I was about thirty feet from the ground on a ledge er filling er s a hole ready for shot for blasting and the old fellow was about twenty feet higher than him and then he was ss er whatsit another hole and then a at the top of the chamber there 's a little hole , he said , like a roof we call it which is a little passage that goes up into the next floor and then we used that as an escape route he did n't have to go far . |
| 25 | A curved arm scythes through the air and the body follows its lead , spiralling to the ground where deft work ( and powerful abdominal and back muscles ) produce a smooth synthesis of movement , driving it across the floor and up into the next sequence . |
| 26 | I f I shall feel as if we 've been from here cos when I was first married we lived up round the next road . |
| 27 | Many of the offices are in the West End of London , where rentals are still growing , and there are quite a few rent reviews coming up in the next few months . |
| 28 | Even if output continues to decline at a similar pace in this quarter before it picks up in the next ( as most forecasters expect ) , the total peak-to-trough decline will look much shallower than the 2.7% average drop in GNP during the eight recessions since the second world war . |
| 29 | ‘ I want to think about it and will probably make my mind up in the next day or two . ’ |
| 30 | These matters are taken up in the next chapter . |