Example sentences of "up a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A director of one licensed dealer rang up a former employee working for a stockbrokers , addressing him as follows : " You took our clients with you , you little shit . |
| 2 | However , we climbed up a little way , just to get off the road . |
| 3 | However , she could only get up a little way before she tumbled backwards , as the jar had a heavy glass base which proved impossible to overbalance . |
| 4 | ‘ They did n't see anything because they were working in their little tent , ’ she went on , ‘ but they did hear someone hurrying past and then a car starting up a little way away . |
| 5 | A tyre like a truck 's loomed up a little way away in the gloom , but it was far more knobbly than any she had seen . |
| 6 | You know , they might just get up a little way and then some bureaucracy knocks them down again and they 're back where they started . |
| 7 | ‘ Should n't we call up a little support ? |
| 8 | SMALL investors could use any spare cash to pick up a few holdings in carefully chosen smaller companies . |
| 9 | As the current Gogarth guidebook heads towards halfway in its lifespan and a reasonable number of new routes are being climbed , I have rounded up a few corrections and other snippets that are applicable to the existing routes . |
| 10 | The Prince 's Youth Business Trust , which gives grants and loans to disadvantaged young people hoping to start their own businesses , is looking for volunteer business advisers prepared to give up a few hours a month to help the youngsters get their projects off the ground . |
| 11 | I only know that he turned up a few hours after the accident and got into some row with the head copper . |
| 12 | You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice . |
| 13 | The Down 's Syndrome Association desperately need volunteers to give up a few hours before or after work on Thursday June 24 to help them collect donations at mainline stations . |
| 14 | Petty sessions throw up a few cases , but not many . |
| 15 | However , the job had to be done , and our training asserting itself , we began to pic up a few bits and pieces . |
| 16 | Together , by getting their fingers in the rat-holes , they managed to tug up a few feet of rotten chestnut boarding , tindery at the edges . |
| 17 | This huge chamber is reached by a short spiral staircase which leads up a few feet beyond the gallery door in room 64 . |
| 18 | Rushie picked up a few lira and an Armani suit but it 's probably fair to say our golden boy from St Asaph did n't exactly win the freedom of Turin . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've run up a few debts myself , you know ! |
| 20 | ‘ Well , ’ says the ex-chief executive philosophically , ‘ when you 've managed a business in crisis mode as long as I have , you pick up a few enemies . ’ |
| 21 | Clear up a few unsolveds , eh sir ? ’ |
| 22 | So it is n't a bad idea at this stage of the season for us to conjure up a few exercises to test receding intellectual fibre . |
| 23 | Practise reading it and think up a few sentences to explain why you have chosen it . |
| 24 | Or go back to HQ , and try to think up a few lines of enquiry for the staff there to pursue — men and women looking progressively more unwashed and unkempt and incompetent as the small hours of the morning gradually wore on . |
| 25 | I sympathized and threw in a few choice obscenities and ‘ hanging 's too good for ‘ ems ’ but made a note to pick up a few watches next time I was down the Brick Lane midnight market . |
| 26 | I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me . |
| 27 | Once you can keep this up a few times , then you are juggling . |
| 28 | Mike come up a few times . |
| 29 | Surely it could not take this long to gather up a few baskets of food ? |
| 30 | When she when she does get up a few octaves , I cringe . |