Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun prp] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With only five minutes remaining Claire McMahon could have wrapped it up for Pegasus when she gave herself room , but blasted the ball off the post . |
| 2 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 3 | I could , of course , have added that some of those crowded around the door were likely to end up like Conor unless they backed away from their relentless hedonism , from their incessant living for the moment . |
| 4 | No one , not even Fenna , could actually stand up against Rachel when she had once got the bit between her teeth : she was better at the game of controlling , containing , winning , than anyone else that Maggie knew . |
| 5 | Pascoe walked up behind Singer as he opened the door and then simply followed him into the room . |
| 6 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp is said to be looking to the second source agreement with Digital Equipment Corp on the Alpha RISC to build a new base for its semiconductor business : the company gave up manufacturing its own mainframe and mid-range computers several years ago , in favour of selling IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co machines on an OEM basis , and focusing its strategy on client-server systems , where it was assisted by its purchase of the Apricot Computers Ltd hardware division — but Apricot insists that it is 100% wedded to the Intel Corp iAPX-86 architecture and has no plans to build Alpha machines , although if the instruction comes in from Tokyo , it wo n't have much option ; there is an element of two-timing in Mitsubishi Electric signing up with DEC because it is already a member of the Hewlett-Packard Precision RISC Organisation . |
| 7 | Nevil caught up with Maggie as she was leaving Templeton 's . |
| 8 | I still imagined returning to work at WTN in London , picking up with Jill as though all these years had not altered anything . |
| 9 | Hugh Griffiths , an outsize and very grand Welsh actor with eyebrows like handlebar grips , was there in full bucolic magnificence : there was a Welsh harpist who pretended to be a ghost , Rachel Roberts teamed up with Sybil as ‘ Lady Something or other ’ and they gossiped , knitted the acting village together , went on stage wearing wristwatches and nail varnish . |
| 10 | ‘ He can double up with Bertie when he gets back . |
| 11 | Indeed , this week was the first time that Graf had joined up with Kohde-Kilsch since the Olympics . |
| 12 | For a short time I was completely clammed up with Marian because I had never been allowed to talk about myself with my wife . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose I assumed you could n't cope with people 's reaction to your breaking up with Jennifer when you learnt she had MS . ’ |
| 14 | On the most trivial of levels it could be claimed that Version 3.0 had caught up with Ventura because it supported stylesheets and graphics wraparound . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm really looking forward to linking up with David because I believe we can go on to become every bit as good as the partnership I had with Ian . ’ |
| 16 | It 's terribly suspicious , Reinhard , you being up in Denmark when the old fox flies away . |
| 17 | He grew up in Holland until at the age of I3 he was sent to live with his uncle , Henri Curiel , in Egypt , where he studied at the English school . |
| 18 | While the preparatory drafts , drawn up in Rome before the Council opened and very largely rejected by the fathers , had made heavy use of scholastic terminology and not much of Scripture — as was generally characteristic of pre-conciliar theology — the Council almost systematically reversed this , eliminating scholastic terms again and again and falling back on biblical ones . |
| 19 | ‘ I was up in Norwich when I doubled over in agony because the thing had moved inside me . |
| 20 | Stones were also set up along the Great North Road in 1708 , but the first true milestone to be set up in Britain since Roman times was that at Trumpington , just outside Cambridge , in 1727 , where it is still to be seen . |
| 21 | Labour 's vote is holding up in Scotland while Tory support is at its lowest level since the campaign started , according to a poll conducted for Scotland on Sunday . |
| 22 | Err I think by the way I 've pretty much got all the the areas wrapped up in Scotland if we can just get going and we can get |
| 23 | yet they never stayed up in Scotland cos there was nothing to bloody do . |
| 24 | Weekly group meetings were set up in Newham when five or six workers were on the payroll . |
| 25 | You did n't pick it up in Germany when ? |
| 26 | Union by moving twenty or thirty miles outside , at once they set up conditions that I know they would set up in London if they could do so unchecked ( The Women 's Printing Society continued to operate , as an exceptional case , with women being paid male rates . ) |
| 27 | Yes did n't buy any new ornaments when I was up in Liverpool cos I did n't see anything that I particularly liked but what Carla has done gives me an idea for making some extra bits for the tree Where did you get that from ? |
| 28 | Organisers say they hope to set one up in Darlington as it has the county 's highest proportion of ethnic minorities . |
| 29 | They came home , packed their bags , left Wales for good and set up in Brussels until they found a new house . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll be damned if I 'll set up in Northallerton because of the ride they have given me , ’ Mr Davies said . |