Example sentences of "up [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in fact I might not even need to vacuum the floor , need I ? , if I pick that bit of paper up off there |
| 2 | Staff hope that at least 100 people will turn up between 9am and 5pm.The project is laying particular emphasis on improving the wheelchair access and availability of hearing aid clinics . |
| 3 | The big chains admitted that house sales could dry up between now and Christmas , as vendors refuse to accept drastic price cuts . |
| 4 | The businessmen travelled , of course , in the first-class carriages , dividing easily into groups so that compartments were made up between more or less particular cronies … any wife or daughter who had to go to Manchester by one of those trains always travelled third ; to share a compartment with the ‘ gentlemen ’ ( we were taught never to call them just plainly ‘ men ’ ) would have been unthinkable . |
| 5 | Shall we go up through here ? |
| 6 | You see there was no road up through then , |
| 7 | It 's an accident on the M Six , and er now if you look there in a moment you 'll see a car come out of control up through there . |
| 8 | Look and he 's gone , up through there . |
| 9 | He 's over there , he 's running up through there , |
| 10 | Right up through there , and tell me if I do that oh ? |
| 11 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 12 | But I suppose the old house has pulled down under pressure and built on now but that was the only house going up through there in them days . |
| 13 | To escape , the heat has to travel up through quite large thicknesses of continental crust , and a large proportion does not get very far ; instead , it comes to rest and solidifies a few kilometres below the surface , forming enormous masses of igneous rock which have been forced or intruded into the crust and are known as batholiths ( Greek origin , meaning something like deep stones ) . |
| 14 | And if Mike could set it up for tonight , and it went well , a drink with J. J. in the club afterward could pay big dividends . |
| 15 | KINGS FOUNTAIN was last night given the clean bill of health he required to line up for tomorrow 's Mackeson Gold Cup at Cheltenham . |
| 16 | The Manchester United midfielder , originally called up for tomorrow 's friendly in Santander when Trevor Steven withdrew , was suffering from a virus despite his match-winning performance in Sunday 's 2-0 home win over Leeds . |
| 17 | She thought of the shoot lined up for tomorrow morning at Paolo 's , a relatively new design house , and shook her head . |
| 18 | Around 1,000 prospective buyers are likely to turn up for tomorrow 's sale . |
| 19 | An inaugural meeting of the Merseyside Music Industry Association has been set up for tomorrow night . |
| 20 | I said I would make them a hundred butterfly cakes , and they either they 'll eat them or they 'll sell them , and I 'll hav I 'll try and have them ready for when rings up at half past one and if they sell them and she brings me any I would n't mind knocking a few more up for tomorrow , but I 'm not gon na give them all |
| 21 | The Graduate was up for Best Picture , Best Director , Best Actor , Best Actress ( Bancroft ) , Best Supporting Actress ( Ross ) , Best Screenplay ( based on material from another medium ) , and Best Cinematography ( Robert Surtees ) . |
| 22 | He told him how much of his pay he had saved up for today , how he would personally kick him all the way back to Newmarket if he did n't win , how he was a big beautiful bastard that could n't fucking lose , could he ? |
| 23 | Okay we 'll give up for today . |
| 24 | But it was a tersely worded compliment , and as he turned to take an olive from the tray of hors-d'oeuvres already laid out on a side-table , her stabbing disappointment told Belinda that he was the person she had really dressed up for today , though what she wanted to prove to him she did n't quite know . |
| 25 | Looking at the level plan , which is the basic one base plan and level plan What we 're really saying there with that plan , whatever you set it up for today , |
| 26 | Okay , so the level whatever you set up for today , will still be that way , unless you change it . |
| 27 | Of course , everyone signs up for nearly everything , but then it 's all part of university life . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , you cheeky cuss , ’ she said , ‘ I might be poor and 'omeless , but I 'm respectable , I am , and I ai n't goin' to listen to you talkin' about my bottom , you ought to be locked up for even mentioning it . ’ |
| 29 | Terry Pearson , head of the bank 's global custody division , said the system could be set up for well under £50 million . |
| 30 | US Sun Chemical Corporation exploited the weakness of the pound yesterday and snapped it up for just under £15m , or 167.5p a share . |