Example sentences of "be one up " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're one up on the men 's team . |
| 2 | The scoreline was unkind to Leeds , who should have been one up through Rod Wallace but were one down when poor defending let Sheron in . |
| 3 | Bullock had been one up after 15 holes but Davies pulled back the deficit at the 16th and held on to finish the match all square . |
| 4 | And they could have easily been one up at that particular time which was a minute . |
| 5 | In reality , I feel I 'm one up of I do n't come out in tears . ’ |
| 6 | A very good sign and so that would be one up for them . |
| 7 | Well , people that I spoke to , spoken to from Cardiff , they they originally got involved because one of the lads used to work up in the factory , the chairman of their labour club , and after that I do n't , politically you know it started off completely non political , but after a while people latched on to it as a dispute that could be won , and you know that would be one up for the workers and the country . |
| 8 | And then of course the Air Force , they 'd be one up again I suppose . |
| 9 | The Princes will rue the fact that they passed up a wonderful chance to finish off the match on the 18th , for they were one up on that tee from which both the sons hit long and straight down the fairway . |
| 10 | 2 headers followed by one touch and a fine shot from Kevin Noteman and Doncaster were one up . |
| 11 | Wales were convinced that they were one up on Scotland in having already experienced Joel Dume in their England match , while the Sassenachs ' top brass reckoned Scotland would be at a definite disadvantage for the first 20 minutes . |
| 12 | We were telling you earlier that Blackburn were one up over Shrewsbury Town , Mike the goal scorer after six , well has equalized immediately for Shrewsbury after twenty , Shrewsbury Town one , Blackburn Rovers one . |
| 13 | Sequoia Systems Inc is joining the rush to fit out Unix systems with all the aids and facilities that mainframe users take for granted , and reckons that it is one up on its competitors with software that continuously monitors all the functions of a computer system and immediately notifies operators of problems in operations or applications — even if it did have to go out-of-house to get it . |
| 14 | There 's one up for you , Keith . |
| 15 | And what you might need to start thinking about as well is how could you illustrate some of these , already around you in the room , going up , work from year nine where they have started writing that as a complaint to god , moaning about Hurricane Andrew , about earthquakes and floods and so on and they 've decided that they 're going to illustrate the work they 're doing with these paper cuttings of disasters and problems in the world , there 's one up here about a gorilla that 's been taken from the wild and is in captivity in London Zoo and they said that they think it 's wrong . |
| 16 | Er there 's one up one er on the next walk down . |
| 17 | ‘ Then that 's one up to me . |
| 18 | Crikey there 's one up there . |
| 19 | There 's one up there . |
| 20 | There 's one up beside , round there with a garage on it . |
| 21 | They have a wax work of ma Mrs Thatcher up and erm Mis Mr erm Major would n't go there till they erm so that , they 've still got Mrs Thatcher 's one up . |
| 22 | No there is n't one in there , there 's one up here |
| 23 | It was one up and one down , terraced on three sides , so you could hear the people poking their fires on three sides . |
| 24 | As a matter of fact , when I 'm talking about , let me see er fifty years ago , there was one up at every back yard , that 's the truth . |
| 25 | I got one , there was one up here actually . |
| 26 | Yeah there was one up and one down . |