Example sentences of "up [prep] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So few people dress up for first nights these days … ’ |
| 2 | Former Lord Mayor Tommy Patton slammed Sinn Fein councillors for having the ‘ audacity ’ to turn up for last night 's council meeting two days after the atrocity . |
| 3 | But Sunday 's win should erase those ghosts , as well as make up for last year 's defeat to France in the final in Lyon . |
| 4 | This win made up for last year 's defeat by Rob Orme when things just did n't go right for Dunlop . |
| 5 | The way he was fired up for last season 's FA Cup semi-final against Portsmouth , despite knowing he was to have major heart surgery the next day showed his commitment . |
| 6 | The frost put paid to Mowden Park 's home game , while Newcastle Gosforth warmed up for next weekend 's Pilkington Cup fourth round tie at Manchester with a 27–9 win over Nottingham . |
| 7 | It set him up for next year , I 'm sure . |
| 8 | Several racecourses would like to stage more Sunday meetings but so far no fixtures ( apart from a point-to-point ) have been drawn up for next year . |
| 9 | The 24-year-old Luton striker was sent off at Chester after scoring his first goal of the season , but Billy Bingham has called him up for next week 's Group Six qualifier against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin . |
| 10 | NIGERIAN prince Andrew Harriman warmed up for next week 's Pilkington Cup rugby final repeat against Bath with a regal hat-trick of tries for Harlequins in a 64-6 win at Plymouth . |
| 11 | RUUD Gullit is gearing up for next week 's European Cup final with Marseille with many Milan fans believing it will one of his last games for the Italian giants . |
| 12 | But he 's okay now and revving up for next week 's World Cup group three game against Latvia at Windsor Park . |
| 13 | England spinner Peter Such warmed up for next week 's second Test with an impressive spell as Essex put pressure on Lancashire at Old Trafford . |
| 14 | And then Gemma had that big job up for next week rang today to say |
| 15 | Dettori , who will be warming up for next season in Hong Kong , did not rest on his laurels , steering odds-on Shintillo to a sauntering success in the Something For The Boys Maiden . |
| 16 | After serving an apprenticeship in Formula Three , he had recently been signed up as second driver by Dalgety , a leading Formula One team . |
| 17 | American children whose mothers were called up during last year 's Gulf War felt they had been abandoned , an in-depth study of their feelings showed . |
| 18 | Their expertise lies in enabling others and others to take advantage of arts facilities and helping them erm or working with them to produce the things that happen , for example all the erm posters which were up during last years festival erm were produced in conjunction with community arts which erm has erm er produced on Ditchfern Place , erm and earlier this morning I was thinking that up as I think other councillors did , that more serious of projects which community arts are now entering into er in Chesterton in particularly in the children erm I think councillors went to Dickfield women 's photograph project and it is things like that about giving people confidence to join arts in a way erm with which they might never otherwise have experienced and the community arts have taken just that . |
| 19 | In return the Americans this month unblocked $5m in military aid that had been held up after last year 's arrests . |
| 20 | This absence of feudal social and political structure prior to the onset of industrialisation has been held to help account for US ‘ exceptionalism ’ , in the form of a weakened socialist consciousness and the lack of strong political Party-union ties , although there are undoubtedly other important factors as well , including the scarcity of manpower and ample employment opportunities for skilled workers , which militated against challenge along political and ideological lines ; a complex ethnic ( immigrant ) labour force composition and racial cleavage , which impeded collective action on a class basis ; and a political and constitutional structure that discouraged the setting up of third parties ( Lipset , 1977 ) . |
| 21 | It was not to be , for although we were all keyed up like first violins , having heard Churchill 's great ‘ Their finest hour ’ speech on June 15th with les soldats Francaises listening as well , Whitehall had decided that better arrangements had to be made for children than care in one of the best London hospitals . |
| 22 | Crosby 's Shirli-Ann Siddall , now based in Dorset , is up against seventh seed Jennifer Capriati in the first round and junior Lorna Woodroffe , languishing at 532 in the rankings , faces Switzerland 's 11th seed Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere . |
| 23 | But Pond Pavarotti , which qualified in third place , is up against second favourite to win the classic , Glengar Ranger , and another top notcher , Taringar Bay . |
| 24 | If we get first division people I 'll do it a different way to him if I had to end up with second division people and the responsibilities they take on board will very much reflect that and the same surely should happen to the field sales force erm their abilities are reflected in in what sort of activities we give them and by looking at the people we have we then put together a team to most accurately attack whatever we want to do . |
| 25 | After the hearing in the court Alison Draper , who lives near the station , said : ‘ Nearly all the people here are against the festival because of the trouble we had to put up with last year . |
| 26 | But even though there is water everywhere , I just ca n't help wondering what excuses our profit-hungry water authorities might come up with next year for increasing our water rates rather than reducing them now the rains have come . |
| 27 | Football now , and Swindon Town have stepped up their promotion challenge by moving up into fifth place in the first division . |
| 28 | Rivals Tennis World Middlesbrough move up into second position — one above Ilkley — after earning their first win of the season against Topspin Darlington . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , Villa moved up into third place , level on points with Manchester United and three points adrift of Norwich . |
| 30 | Now football , and Swindon Town have moved up into sixth place in the first division after beating Grimsby Town one-nil at the County Ground last night . |