Example sentences of "up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ My friend , Lord Auden and I cut one up the other day , ’ she says ( of an old mahogany sideboard ) . |
| 32 | Yet another rarity turned up the other day and which I illustrate here . |
| 33 | A girlfriend rang me up the other day . |
| 34 | Now the major problem that came up the other day was that , I thought I had given you a very easy extract to translate into modern English , and it turned out not to be such an easy extract , obviously . |
| 35 | Well she come up the other day , they wanted to exchange Kelly 's old house for , for , for her , somebody wants it er part exchange Kelly 's house , you know then go and |
| 36 | Anyway , I phoned her up the other day to have a little chat with her . |
| 37 | I said erm I said to Alison oh aye cos she rang up the other day and I asked her if she 'd found a fella . |
| 38 | Cos I 'd cleaned it up the other day cos it had mildew on the bottom of it ! |
| 39 | And I said when I walked up the other day |
| 40 | Can I just say that er Ray phoned me up the other day and he said er , would you be prepared to take part in probationers ' , er regional probationary sort of training day er which is at coming up er in a few months time , to give erm presentation skills er I part of what we were doing , erm but just those O H Ps that we did on that part . |
| 41 | and then and then I was going yeah I really want to take , I 'll have to take my stereo home and he goes yeah your stereo 's quite big is n't it , I went when have you seen my stereo and he goes oh I came up the other day to see if you were in . |
| 42 | Manolo flicked a switch and brought up the other figure . |
| 43 | Bit like those papapizza photographers you duffed up the other week , eh Stan ? |
| 44 | ‘ Quite a number of our staff live in Wimbledon and some practical jokers have been putting up the other Graham Hadley 's pamphlets , ’ he says . |
| 45 | Therefore , para. ( c ) could swallow up the other paragraphs . |
| 46 | There he ordered Cronus to vomit up the other children , who then became the gods of Olympus . |
| 47 | Stop up the other end , and bury the hose-pipe alongside the beans . |
| 48 | Sure enough , I dived in the water , swam up the other end , and he came after me . |
| 49 | One umpire was up the other end , the other was too busy controlling his refractory pony to watch what Randy was up to . |
| 50 | ‘ Players who whack someone when the play is up the other end of the field are cowards . |
| 51 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 52 | I woke up the other morning and I thought , once you married for company , and now you marry the company . |
| 53 | On reaching the face drop down to the toe of the rocks then climb steeply back up the other side until North West Gully is reached ( 15 minutes ) . |
| 54 | Ireland have been pooled with Olympic champions Spain , 1990 World Cup silver medallists Australia , Korea , Argentina and Russia with Canada , China , England , United States and reigning champions Holland making up the other group . |
| 55 | One of them Derek Clark is the man who dreamt up the new idea … took the plunge into the sailing revolution |
| 56 | An official of the Association of British Insurers , which drew up the new insurance ratings , conceded that the structure , which is due to be introduced on July 1 , is being revised ‘ almost daily . ’ |
| 57 | The economy embarks on a rather sluggish crawl up the new LM curve until it eventually comes to rest at point C where there is a new , higher equilibrium level of income , Y 2 |
| 58 | They could see a man with a ladder up against the cinema putting up the new poster , and the small round figure of Peggy Pine coming out of her dress shop to stand and look admiringly at her window display . |
| 59 | I picked up The New Principles of Gardening , a leather-bound tome by Batty Langley ( d. 1751 ) and wondered when she would have been b . |
| 60 | Had there been a verification that nuclear fusion did occur in solids at room temperature , here is one theorist , and I am sure I speak for many colleagues , who would have taken up the new field to see what fundamental implications it had . |