Example sentences of "up [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , like so many others brought up through an older tradition , I was only indirectly aware of their nature , or even of their existence . |
| 2 | The net swept them up through an oblong portal faced with irregular , soapy-looking tiles , into a concourse bathed in harsh amber light . |
| 3 | Ms or Mr Trim wakes up for an early morning drink , has tea or coffee with either no milk or skimmed milk and definitely no sugar . |
| 4 | To fit everything in here you have to be up for an early breakfast . |
| 5 | Plymouth looked to be cruising to victory when striker Dwight Marshall made up for an early miss with two goals in three minutes in the first half of this tie . |
| 6 | But at least we have trained the waitress to bring us three cups of coffee each for breakfast , as we need at least that to wake us up for an early morning start ! |
| 7 | They teamed up for an after-show celebration after Elton and rock star Eric Clapton thrilled fans at a huge outdoor concert in New York . |
| 8 | Measure up for an outer framework , based upon sawn timber , 75x25mm . |
| 9 | He has since left BP to sign up for an American company in Oklahoma . |
| 10 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 11 | The bunkers ate into the fairway at around the 240-yard mark to cool the aggressive ardour of the professional golfer who might try to cut the slight dogleg and set himself up for an easier shot into the two-tier green . |
| 12 | As major appliance makers gear up for an expected world market for ‘ green ’ refrigerators , FORON is the first to offer a fridge completely free of so-called chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) . |
| 13 | A DOCTOR and a student will warm up for an Arctic adventure by spending tonight in a seafood freezer . |
| 14 | Before he died in 1983 , Swire had the exhilarating experience of watching one of his Cathay Pacific aircraft landing at Gatwick airport , the first of innumerable scheduled passenger flights from and to Hong Kong by the airline he had built up as an international enterprise . |
| 15 | But let us begin instead with Héléne Cixous 's remarkable account of what it was like to grow up as an Algerian French Jewish girl at that time : |
| 16 | If you choose the second alternative , the result usually ends up as an unhealthy hybrid of the Sale Of The Century theme and a Mick Talbot solo album . |
| 17 | If you choose the second alternative , the result usually ends up as an unhealthy hybrid of the Sale Of The Century theme and a Mick Talbot solo album . |
| 18 | They sped down the warm evening pavement for about fifty yards and then pulled up as an elderly man , walking his dog , came out of a driveway in front of them . |
| 19 | Publication of the essay , presumably in The Criterion , would understandably have hurt Rowse 's feelings ; it might , at the same time , have shown me up as an impertinent upstart . |
| 20 | ( The solution is to sign up as an individual ) . |
| 21 | The Commander is best left separate from the tank so that he can be painted up as an individual model and put in or left out of the hatch as desired . |
| 22 | BENTWORTH Aided School are to get a new play area which will also double up as an occasional overflow car park for the village hall . |
| 23 | They did not share the critics ' dismay that bumptious Mr Spielberg should have borrowed that nice Mr Barrie 's little boy , allowed him to grow up as an awful Dad , and then sent him back to learn a few lessons in Captain Hook 's theme-park paradise . |
| 24 | Stop anywhere for a few minutes on a summer 's day and you are likely to end up as an unpaid extra in next year 's calendar or on a biscuit tin . |
| 25 | It seems that the landlord of the Red Lion , called Leslie , and held up as an elegant fellow , instigated enquiries as to how such food came to be served to Johnson , and the following explanation emerged . |
| 26 | The windows which had been nailed up as an anti-escape measure were thick with steam , and water was pouring down the panes . |
| 27 | Yet it was accordingly — to quote Cole again — that the producers ' co-operative was set up as an industrial , or perhaps more exactly , as a proto-industrial co-operative . |
| 28 | The Taligent environment , derived from Apple 's Pink , has been designed from the ground up as an object-based system and includes a user interface , a development environment and operating system kernel . |
| 29 | When a foot is damaged , the volley of nerve impulses produced by the damage and arriving in the spinal cord sets up a long lasting increase of excitability which shows up as an exaggerated flexion reflex , among other changes . |
| 30 | For Bürger ( 1984 , p. 48 ) it is specifically ‘ bourgeois art ’ that sets itself up as an autonomous realm . |