Example sentences of "up there [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Yes it was a big , it was a square , big square room and er we were all young people up there except the foreman and erm some lived in , one lady live in she was named , then there was another one who lived in Street she was named and er there was a Violet there 's a Winkles butchers shop is n't there , Winkles have got one in Road at Willenhall , yes there was Violet and er
2 Something come up there onto the brink of the gulf ,
3 Roof you see , if you look right up there above this this central beam , you can see the smoke hole .
4 Emil beckoned me towards the kitchen end , and I went up there into the small lobby with a serving counter , a space that made a needed gap between the hot glittering galley and the actual dining area .
5 There 'd been some trouble up there between the Catholics and the Protestants and we were ordered to put a line across the road and were ordered to take out our truncheons .
6 There was something up there beyond the landing , in one of the shuttered rooms .
7 ‘ You 're not up there for the good of your health . ’
8 Just imagine now , my dear brethren , if the modernists had their way we 'd be having a banjo up there for an organ — sorry Miss Baker !
9 I 'd like you to put up there for a few days , and try to scrape acquaintance with her .
10 It must have been up there for years , it weighed at least 14 carats and sat like a throbbing lime fruit pastille on the back of my unmoving hand .
11 In an upstairs bedroom — the kidnappers tended to avoid the downstairs rooms during daylight hours , despite the thick net curtains that screened them — the South African was seated at a table brought up there for the purpose .
12 ‘ Sean had no business coming up there for me , interfering and giving orders and upsetting everyone here and there . ’
13 What on earth did she want him up there for ?
14 ‘ It is astounding that he was up there for all that time in such a busy area without anyone noticing , ’ said Det Insp Martyn Evans .
15 Otherwise we could search up there for a year and we would n't find her .
16 Steve was up there for half an hour while I shivered with cold and neurosis .
17 ‘ What 's she going up there for ?
18 Meanwhile Saddam Hussein massed troops in northern Iraq in apparent preparation , said the United States , for an attack on the ‘ safe haven ’ set up there for the Iraqi Kurds .
19 Daylight suddenly burst upon them , sunlight , and up there for a moment blue sky and white clouds and a tall whitish building .
20 Erm ironically I was one of those that went from Essex to Manchester and I did live up there for a couple of years but er decided to come back .
21 The timing of the goal was a vital ingredient of this delirium , of course ( I for one had given up all hope by then ) , as was the venue ( we had n't won up there for decades ) ; but what really gave the night meaning was the anxiety and despair , year after year of it , that had gone before .
22 If you look up there for example , can you see the row of heads supporting the beams ,
23 She never said anything about it when I went up there for my last leave , and she 's never written about it since , but I can imagine a little of what she felt .
24 I told him , although it was not true , that the local carabinieri had said he would not remain locked up there for long , but I am sure he did not believe me .
25 We had the road up there for some sewer connections and he said that our hazard warning lamps were out .
26 " What did he put those two red lights up there for ?
27 ‘ And yet he was up there for nearly a year , ’ said Viola , casting eyes heavenwards again , like Mr Stiggins speaking of rum .
28 They would go mid-week when he had to go up there for Joskiss 's ; they need not be vulgar weekend lovers .
29 I was up there for six weeks , I passed the course and was posted back to Brigade H Q to a wider posting to a regiment .
30 Muhammad went up the mountain — ; He was up there for more than an hour —
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