Example sentences of "up [prep] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I started to make my way up through some bushes on the left of the kirk , something caught my eye and I stopped . |
| 2 | I know that whether it was trying to dig him up for some doubles at Kyalami or just dropping in on him aboard the Queen Mary , I always called up first to make sure he was not otherwise engaged , and I can recall many times when James appeared at the track looking benign but far from fresh . |
| 3 | He was beginning to wonder if they were n't already softening him up for some kind of a change . |
| 4 | I know , I was I went up for some chips at the top |
| 5 | Oh yes , I had a gentleman turn up for some physio on his arm . |
| 6 | Its release had , however , been held up for some time on instructions from C. M. Woolf , a shrewd film salesman who had played a key role in financing the first projects of both Balcon and Wilcox . |
| 7 | Er there 's another book which is similar to the other one in the sense that it made up of some papers by Phillips , Steel and Tants and that has some information about Mexicano in it , er and you find that some people er were giving Mexican language a low a low prestige rate whereas other group in the community were doing the opposite and giving a high prestige rate or certainly a less low one , er in favour of spanish a lot of the Because it was in I think it 's in South America I guess , er you find that a lot of the locals were switching to spanish because it was coming the dominant language er because of societal pressures and constraints and so on . |
| 8 | We have come up against some prejudice in the dressage , but the nice thing is that at the end of the test sheets you often see the same comment from the judge — ‘ What a super pony ! ’ . ’ |
| 9 | I mean what really your hope in looking after that is is they will come up with some idea of publishing . |
| 10 | ‘ I think we 'll end up with some kind of big confrontation , ’ he said , leaning back in his desk chair , surrounded by other desks and with an open window looking over the rest of downtown . |
| 11 | ‘ What I thought , ’ says Freddie , ‘ was that we could fix you up with some kind of nominal job in the organization … ’ |
| 12 | Chairman I think I have to offer an apology to members and Mr in particular and the town of Bungay with a rather erm over which sentence expressing the press release , I mean we are continually trying to issue news items , press releases , progress reports and anything we 're doing and usually the press are very good and quoted for a basis , sometimes they get it wrong and mangle it up with some bits of disaster , on this occasion that is not the case , the , the actual press report did determine the phraseology used in my in lease them so I have to accept the responsibility for the phrase to act of your recommended this morning so it down sake , could abandon ideas which they can buy it , of course those crazy ideas used in and out of the court is what matters . |
| 13 | ‘ As well as children are when their mother fails to come home from a party because she 's shacked up with some gorilla in a cheap hotel . |
| 14 | I did n't expect her to do so , but what I did n't know then was that she had a holiday cottage in Muker , which is not far over the hills in Swaledale , and one day she turned up with some friends of hers . |
| 15 | She has a miserable time , leaving home for a job in a club , escaping from reform school to hang out with drunken hoodlums and joining up with some soldiers for a bout of petty thieving that culminates in murder , and the film never allows one into the girl 's experience . |
| 16 | However , this young man , besides having the wrong car , was not the most talented of drivers and my first ten minutes were taken up with some anxiety about the likelihood of our arriving at the Consulate intact . |
| 17 | have to er er I 'll I 'll try and come up with some talk of , some sort of definitions , guidelines of , I mean , effort 's effort , I do , do you have to explain effort ? |
| 18 | What we have to do is to come up with some set of criteria which relate to the relative value we are prepared , if pressed , to attribute to a particular form of special treatment . |
| 19 | He was never happier than when watching Morse come face to face with a mystery : it vas like watching his chief tackle some fiendishly devised crossword ( as Lewis had often done ) , with the virgin grid on the table in front of him , almost immediately coming up with some sort of answer to the majority of the clues — and then with Lewis himself , albeit only occasionally , supplying one blindingly obvious answer to the easiest clue in the puzzle , and the only one that Morse had failed to fathom . |
| 20 | For reasons best known to themselves , they attached great importance to the idiot 's efforts to fill his useless bath ( I think it was B ) and it seemed vital to their purpose that I too become involved with the whole farcical business and , what 's more , come up with some sort of an answer . |
| 21 | If these governments want to win back the access to international capital markets that they need in order to expand and prosper , they will have to come up with some ideas of their own . |
| 22 | It 's blown up into some kind of news story , so I better check the bulletins . |
| 23 | By the time I was through San Pedro de Lloc and had reached the turn-off to Cajamarca at San José my mind had built the man up into some sort of a monster . |
| 24 | Oh no , they and he turns up in some hanging from a chain he 's being cruel to her is n't he ? |
| 25 | You must have your face covered up in some way on the night : I suggest a balaclava worn back to front , with eye-holes cut in it . |
| 26 | The maths that you do ties up in some way with usually ties up with reality there 's some reason for it . |
| 27 | It seems they had been beaten up in some way by other prisoners but we do not know who . ’ |
| 28 | Then I dressed her up in some things of my own ( oh , so much too big ! ) . |
| 29 | The face is that of a Renaissance choirboy , or cupid , caught up in some act of Southern atavism . |
| 30 | They were all too aware of the renewed public campaign for further film censorship but their only response to that was to deplore Hollywood 's all too obviously hasty attempt to wrap its gangster and other city films up in some kind of moral message . |