Example sentences of "up [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What I say , constable , is ’ — and now it was Arthur speaking — ‘ there 's such a thing as 'arassment , that 's what they 've told me when I 've been up afore the old bloke . |
| 2 | Then to Ann Butler , ‘ Missus , put some oven shelves in t'bed ti get it warmed up afore we puts 'im in . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We do n't want the arena closing up afore we 're out of it , Lads , ’ he explained . |
| 4 | Many opinions I formerly entertained are now given up & probably many of my present opinions will share the same fate — I wish them to be closely and fully ( as I know they will fairly ) examined without any regard to the author & therefore I can not by my presence aid your cause . |
| 5 | GET UP & GO |
| 6 | The U.S.A. trip was wonderfully reminiscent too … mainly for the two brothers who travelled up & down Memory Lane every hour of every three week day . |
| 7 | I can talk about it freely now & we have all picked ourselves up & dusted ourselves down … says that she is a stronger person ( maybe even ‘ harder ’ ) … & she is a very efficient business person & lives & works in Glasgow . |
| 8 | Taking only the period in which this book has been written , and limiting the location to the UK , there have been numerous similar press-provoked scandals in which the homosexual has kept turning up where he or she should not , especially at the ‘ respectable ’ centre of things : in MI5 , the Houses of Parliament , as parliamentary candidate , schoolteacher , council employee , prison chaplain , vicar , guard to the Queen Mother , film star , circuit judge , to cite only some ( and some whose lives have been destroyed by homophobic media harassment ) . |
| 9 | It takes up where MacPuke left off , offering a whole range of activities the computer is likely to perform , and the opportunity to attach any sound to them . |
| 10 | Four races over the next four days — men 's and women 's giant and special slaloms — pick up where Australia and Argentina left off in August . |
| 11 | Four races over the next four days — men 's and women 's giant and special slaloms — pick up where Australia and Argentina left off in August . |
| 12 | I was on to the exchange for your name and number as soon as the news came through , but it took me an hour and a half to bully someone into looking up where the phone-box was . |
| 13 | Susanna , is there an article you can dig up where Ilona says I 'm good ? |
| 14 | Susanna , is there an article that you can dig up where Illona says I 'm good ? ’ |
| 15 | The temptation to return safely back up where I 'd come from was enormous . |
| 16 | Perhaps he will be taking up where Naas Botha , the South African outside-half , left off in American football next . |
| 17 | While looking forward in its powerfully climactic , funeral-march sections to the episode of Siegfried 's death in the Wagner excerpts later , the instrumental virtuosity of its writing also seemed to pick up where the preceding concert left off in the Chicago 's bravura , if sometimes coarse-grained account of Strauss 's Ein Heldenleben . |
| 18 | Successively a Rhodes scholar , Foreign Office mandarin , Oxford don , politician , TV current affairs reporter and politician again , he is unencumbered by the traditionalist baggage inevitably carried around by those who grew up where the writ of the Labour establishment still runs largely unchallenged . |
| 19 | The column in the piazza is of Baveno granite and was set up where San Carlo Borromeo celebrated Mass during the plague of 1576 . |
| 20 | No one was in a hurry to pick up where Bradshaw had left off . |
| 21 | Ask the task orientated member to regularly sum up where the meeting has reached . |
| 22 | The area had been built up where not long before , according to Defoe 's account , there were fields of grass with cows feeding in them . |
| 23 | Workers were needed in the new factories , most of which were set up where coal was available . |
| 24 | Invariably , in such cases , the two sides ended up where they started with the RCM pleading moderation and a softly , softly approach . |
| 25 | On the other hand , a new training school has been set up where I did find excellent service , friendly and helpful instructors and a range of aircraft rates which are almost unbelievable . |
| 26 | However the 6W type seems scarce , so its a case of using 3W ( doubling up where indicated ) or a 7W type . |
| 27 | It was his desire to play the Senior Tour and his love of golf which has given the Notts professional the inspiration to overcome his terrible injuries and pick up where he left off a little more than a year ago . |
| 28 | Picking up where that era left off has spelled the restoration of the power of the Catholic Church and the unabashed exaltation of Hungarianism . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's easy to be critical by watching television and they may feel that they can just pick up where they left off . |
| 30 | The whole service was provided from Sutton depôt and the trams were broken up where they stood in Penge depôt . |