Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those special events are treats that we save up for look forward to are also subject to the ravages of inflation . |
| 2 | Not quite knowing what to expect other than that she wanted a new job , Jean turned up for work promptly on a cold , wet , Monday morning but found no one to let her in . |
| 3 | Better prospects had by now opened up for Charles elsewhere with the death of Pippin of Aquitaine in December 838 . |
| 4 | United were put up for sale yesterday in a shock move at Bramall Lane . |
| 5 | Shops were coming up for sale all over the precinct . |
| 6 | She had never liked suiting up for trips outside in space , and this suit was an old model , and equipped for combat as well as maintenance . |
| 7 | During the course of their conversation , to which Julia listened with only half her attention as she sipped her brandy , she learned that Jackson French was likely to be posted to London to play a part in the winding up of UNRRA later in the year and that Comfort herself was due to leave Venice in two days ' time ‘ now that Julia is getting well again' . |
| 8 | John Ferguson , the Canberra Raiders wing who lines up against Widnes tonight in the Foster 's World Club Challenge , is little known outside rugby league circles , but within the game he commands a whispered respect his more famous namesakes might envy . |
| 9 | Should I fill up with petrol just in case ? |
| 10 | Joe had met up with Benny again on one of his rare trips to his old haunts and offered him a job , which Benny was glad to accept . |
| 11 | That is a child who has grown up with books instead of wallpaper . |
| 12 | But one of the demonstrators , Cat Wiener , said : ‘ One player got hit in the ear by an egg , and others ended up with flour all over them . ’ |
| 13 | Inevitably , perhaps , Parr and Jessica ended up in bed together at roughly the same time that evening . |
| 14 | Rushing around causes mistakes which end up in accidents both to clients and home carers . ’ |
| 15 | THE organisation representing rank and file members of the Republic 's army was up in arms today over a new security vetting procedure . |
| 16 | She was brought up in France just before the Second World War , but as an adolescent she was sent to spend a year with relatives in Germany where she was forced to remain when fighting broke out . |
| 17 | Commuters to the capital obviously decided to take a long weekend or were put up in hotels overnight by their employers , said a spokesman . |
| 18 | Herbert , deciding that he had had enough of provincial life , set up in partnership again with brother James . |
| 19 | He said to one of his chaplains that Ramsey spent too much time theologizing up in York instead of tackling problems practically . |
| 20 | The loyal workers were gobsmacked to find two months later their ex-boss had bought all his ex-machinery at the receivers ' auction for next to nothing and started up in business again under another name in the same premises . |
| 21 | Eckford started up in business again as a shipbuilder and soon re-established his high reputation . |
| 22 | He has been working very long hours setting up in business here in er in this area er he gets home late at night and I 'm afraid to say that over the last few months he 's been nagged continuously by his girlfriend who wants him to try and sort out financial arrangements because the relationship between the two of them 's not been very good . |
| 23 | They had driven to the edge of the city , into the brittle mauve of dusk , lights starting up in buildings everywhere as if some vast signal beacon were slowly igniting . |
| 24 | So marriages break up , the man becomes rootless and homeless , and can either end up in prison again within a short time or else drift into destitution . |
| 25 | Many Shetlanders expressed concern about land being considered not as a resource for production , but as a resource to be treated simply as a kind of nonagricultural commodity i.e. something to be surrendered up from agriculture merely for money . |
| 26 | Maybe you have to throw a coat over your nightie and pick them up from miles away in the car . |
| 27 | I if you 're coming up from Deeside now towards the |
| 28 | If we went high enough to use a ‘ chute we 'd be picked up on radar immediately after taking off . ’ |
| 29 | Yeah it 's about time it were shaken up now that Labour Party er this government er , erm they 're agreeing to this , this has to be done and that has to be done you put notices up on buses all over Britain no smoking in the buses , now in the big restaurants they 're going to have to between now and July put notices up , no smoking in restaurants |
| 30 | ‘ I liked the coffee tonight , ’ he said , not allowing that it was the same instant coffee as ever , and to deserve the goodness she determined to go up to Soho tomorrow for some beautiful fresh espresso beans . |