Example sentences of "up [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I started to make my way up through some bushes on the left of the kirk , something caught my eye and I stopped . |
| 2 | I know that whether it was trying to dig him up for some doubles at Kyalami or just dropping in on him aboard the Queen Mary , I always called up first to make sure he was not otherwise engaged , and I can recall many times when James appeared at the track looking benign but far from fresh . |
| 3 | He was beginning to wonder if they were n't already softening him up for some kind of a change . |
| 4 | I spread them in benediction , and reached up for some air . |
| 5 | I know , I was I went up for some chips at the top |
| 6 | Shrimp kept going up for some water , trod on Andrew . |
| 7 | Oh yes , I had a gentleman turn up for some physio on his arm . |
| 8 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 9 | A reader could make a number of inferences about this passage : Mary is female , more probably an adult than a child ; It is morning ; Mary does not want to get up for some reason ; Mary is in bed ; she lives in a house with a refrigerator ; the house is possibly in North America , and so on . |
| 10 | Mr Cunnane is that up for some reason , that flag of yours ? |
| 11 | Now I must admit my first thoughts of it were it really gets my back up for some reason or other . |
| 12 | Its release had , however , been held up for some time on instructions from C. M. Woolf , a shrewd film salesman who had played a key role in financing the first projects of both Balcon and Wilcox . |
| 13 | ‘ No more dressing up for some time . |
| 14 | They had , it transpired , been training one up for some time . |
| 15 | I have not dressed myself up for some time . |
| 16 | Official signs for a cycle path connecting Baird Road , Ratho Station , to the minor road from Ratho to Newbridge have been up for some time . |
| 17 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
| 18 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 19 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 20 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 21 | ‘ I 've written him up for some medication to ease the headache . ’ |
| 22 | Indeed , once the mother of one of Greg 's friends rang up about some arrangements the boys had made together , and she said , ‘ Oh , by the way , I 've only just learned that Greg 's sister whom Richard talks about is adopted . ’ |
| 23 | Er there 's another book which is similar to the other one in the sense that it made up of some papers by Phillips , Steel and Tants and that has some information about Mexicano in it , er and you find that some people er were giving Mexican language a low a low prestige rate whereas other group in the community were doing the opposite and giving a high prestige rate or certainly a less low one , er in favour of spanish a lot of the Because it was in I think it 's in South America I guess , er you find that a lot of the locals were switching to spanish because it was coming the dominant language er because of societal pressures and constraints and so on . |
| 24 | The Def Leppard singer , at No 10 with Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad , admits : ‘ I could never get into a plane and smash things up like some stars do . |
| 25 | ‘ What the hell did you think — that I was going to take you here on the ground — or up against some tree ? |
| 26 | Garner and Croft were by now both injured , but West Indies suddenly found themselves up against some determination . |
| 27 | You know you 're in for a rough ride just by gawping at their photos for this package which show Knight hunched up against some slum wall and Blake glowering in true Exorcist 2 style from within a storm of locusts . |
| 28 | We have come up against some prejudice in the dressage , but the nice thing is that at the end of the test sheets you often see the same comment from the judge — ‘ What a super pony ! ’ . ’ |
| 29 | I had the odd George II and George III copper , but these were in the minority and it was the 17th century coinage that was popping up with some regularity . |
| 30 | When the office lifers came the next day and tried to make the computer come up with some figures they wanted , what it printed out was this poet 's poetry instead . |