Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Air India plane that blew up off Ireland in 1985 , with 329 people killed , had been targeted by men trained in a paramilitary camp . |
| 2 | They halted on a rocky ridge where heather poked up through gaps in the stones , and looked back to see Ralarth a green patch below them . |
| 3 | In natural first language acquisition , the child , growing up through involvement in naturally recurrent events , learns about the world through language and concomitantly learns language through an engagement with the world . |
| 4 | This is the first of Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki 's films to open here , but not the last : two more are lining up for release in the next six months . |
| 5 | A pleasant , very nearly a respectable , young man , it seemed , which was far more than could be said for the fellow they had put up for Bradford in 1841 , an Irishman of the wilder variety who had served his apprenticeship to the political trade in such select establishments as Northallerton House of Correction and the castle jails of Lancaster and York . |
| 6 | Up for re-election in 1952 , he was looking around for a cause that would be electorally popular , and found it in anti-communism . |
| 7 | Was up for re-election in May this year , nineteen ninety two . |
| 8 | Some will be up for re-election in two years . |
| 9 | Drivers are lining up for hours in front of petrol stations guarded by sullen , sometimes angry soldiers who keep control by firing their automatic weapons into the air . |
| 10 | Tries from Ian Lucas and Sam Panapa put Wigan in front but a John Gilfallan try reduced the deficit to two points before Denis Betts ' try wrapped it up for Wigan in injury time . |
| 11 | Renewed prospects opened up for preferment in Ireland . |
| 12 | In the city itself there is the Oskar Reinhart Foundation , which he set up for Winterthur in his lifetime , and which houses over six hundred works by Swiss , German and Austrian artists of the sixteenth , seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 13 | I also remember , incidentally , the first letter that I had to erm type , a young chap who was erm shortly called up for service in the Army came in and erm dictated a little letter to me to see how erm , how I got on and erm it was a letter to parents in Halesworth whose daughter had just been er transferred to a grammar school and erm in those days of course the , if the distance was more than three miles the Education Committee er provided a cycle and cape and leggings and erm the object of the letter was to find out the child 's inside leg measurement |
| 14 | In one blinding flash then , she had realised how much she had actually given up for Paul in a futile attempt to avert his jealous outbursts — friends , family , social life , even smiling … |
| 15 | These are , for example , the nameless and faceless workers who lined up for work in response to Henry Ford 's visionary offer of a $5-per-day paycheck . |
| 16 | You 're the , you 're the driver and you 've got to get up for work in the morning and everything else . |
| 17 | It would perhaps be unusual for expulsion to follow as a matter of course under this head without some discussion with the invalid to see whether other arrangements might be made and the real object of including this as a ground for expulsion is to remove doubt on all sides as to when such delicate matters are liable to be brought up for discussion in the context of early retirement . |
| 18 | From the old man , you see he 'd always been an old I L P man and er I remember when Harris put up for parliament in the Rushcliffe division . |
| 19 | • MORE than £1,000 in prizes is up for grabs in the British All-comers Championships at Tynemouth this Sunday , February 17 . |
| 20 | Rather than looking abroad , smart European bankers will already have realised that with banks like Chase Manhattan and Security Pacific pulling back from Europe , some of the best corporate business will now be up for grabs in their own backyards . |
| 21 | Three places are up for grabs in each of the individual kayak , Canadian singles and women 's kayak singles classes . |
| 22 | After an exhausting schedule of two days of pool matches — the most tortuous ‘ trial by fire ’ ever devised for a sevens tournament — Namibia had established themselves as firm favourites to claim top spot among the four qualifying berths up for grabs in Catania for Murrayfield , 1993 . |
| 23 | THESE are the trophies up for grabs in our 1992 Daily Mirror National Allotments Awards . |
| 24 | Setting his sights on the lucrative prizes up for grabs in the Daily Mirror/Manx Airlines sponsored event is classy Kenyan Jimmy Muindi , the current World Junior steeplechase champion . |
| 25 | THE biggest individual guaranteed cash prize ever offered in North West fishing is up for grabs in Saturday 's Octoplus Echo Spring Classic final . |
| 26 | THERE are two prize fishing holidays up for grabs in the Echo 's Catch of the Season competition . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , places in the North-East team for the Inter Counties Championships at Corby on Monday week will be up for grabs in the North-Easterns tonight , tomorrow and Sunday . |
| 28 | Keith has to get up for school in the morning , but he 's not thinking about that at the minute . |
| 29 | And anyway you 've got ta get up for school in the morning . |
| 30 | What an admission to make after 12 years of Conservative government that our economy is uniquely incapable of being signed up for participation in a single currency . |