Example sentences of "up [prep] the big [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its comments follow a fresh warning by Sir Gordon Borrie , director-general of Fair Trading , that he will take action against long-term beer supply agreements set up between the big brewers and pubs leased to others . |
| 2 | Runners limber up for the big test |
| 3 | He pays up for the Big Turn but , ’ she shook her head and compressed her lips together , ‘ she 's never once swept that stair . ’ |
| 4 | Limbering up for the big event — Lord Mayor Treloar College assistant bursar Derek Graham ( left ) and teacher John Etherington . |
| 5 | Limbering up for the big race , are |
| 6 | You can watch the newsreader 's lips getting into gear , like Fatima Whitbread psyching herself up for the big throw . |
| 7 | Each time Rugby Canada were up against the big names . |
| 8 | On the MS-DOS side of the connectivity business , Rabbit sees itself up against the big names — IBM , Novell and DCA . |
| 9 | At half past midnight , Springfield drew the council of war to a close by pushing back his chair and standing up behind the big desk , where he had been sitting flanked by Grant and Deputy Fenton . |
| 10 | It did n't require much capital to manufacture the equipment or produce the short films , and for some time it was possible for small craftsmen on the British model to keep up with the big boys in France or the US . |
| 11 | McGilligan 's subsequent achievements in the Ireland jersey have been well chronicled and since then the Dungiven joiner has been very much up with the big boys . |
| 12 | Pete Waterman is making animated conversation at the bar After trying unsuccessfully to blackmail him with photographs of his dancing , we part company , wondering aloud if he would tart the programme up were Granada to come up with the big bucks . |
| 13 | They come up with the Big Ideas and build the organizations — the Big Machines — that turn them into reality . |
| 14 | Americans came up with the Big Ideas for videocassette recorders , basic oxygen furnaces , and continuous casters for making steel , microwave ovens , automobile stamping machines , computerized machine tools , integrated circuits . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're going to take a few more , ’ and I was ushered up onto the big machine . |
| 16 | Stephen took the stairs two at a time and threw open the bedroom door to see Tamar , sitting up in the big fourposter bed , nursing their son . |
| 17 | Without being particularly conscious of where they were going , he and Cora-Beth had ended up in the big barn containing bales of straw for the loose boxes . |
| 18 | Amounts of toxic gases in our cities have already reached unacceptable levels and this is showing up in the big increases in respiratory illnesses . |
| 19 | Sometimes Frankie would curl up in the big seat and sleep until she shook him awake shortly before the second feature came to an end . |
| 20 | I looked them up in the big dictionary my father had bought for me by mail order at the beginning of the year . |
| 21 | If the universe consisted of just the elements cooked up in the big bang , then W would be about 0.1 — ten times larger than it appears , but ten times less than theory demands . |
| 22 | Macaulay gets on the wrong plane and ends up in the Big Apple where he books into the palatial Plaza Hotel , much to the suspicion of various flunkies including a camp Tim Curry . |
| 23 | ‘ They seemed convinced a whole lot of people had come up from the big city to show off , to be grandees , which was far from the truth . |
| 24 | The man so often pilloried for fouling up on the big occasion was determined to make no mistake this time , racing to the front immediately to keep out of trouble and defying his opponents to get past . |
| 25 | The 29-year-old Motherwell man , who has made an art form of fouling up on the big occasion , acknowledged that he too came close to calling it a day after the Olympics . |
| 26 | Brilliant weather from the end of May through into June , particularly on the west coast , saw hordes of climbers up on the big mountain routes , particularly on Ben Nevis . |
| 27 | Like everyone else , like you yourself , I had seen Caduta many times up on the big screen , in costume dramas , musicals , Italian sex comedies , Mexican westerns . |
| 28 | ‘ You know , Frank , ’ she said , ‘ I 'm going to take a great delight in telling her , much more so than facing up to the big boy himself , because she it is who has paved the way for all this . ’ |
| 29 | The lights went down further , and I guessed Kruger was working up to the big climax , whatever that was . |
| 30 | Yeah , it 's it 's it 's the build up to it as well , there 's a lot of excitement , I mean , most people it takes about six months to build up to the big day , and then finally it 's there and it all happens and , I think that makes it a lot , exciting for a lot of women . |