Example sentences of "up [prep] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the opening section of the pageant , Mahmud , lying underneath the stage , was due to poke a flag decorated with a crescent moon up through a crack in the stage . |
| 2 | Michael Howard , the employment secretary , was left to make the best of this glum news by telling the TECs ' directors — 1,200 of them , by December 1990 — that they could make up for a shortfall in cash from the Treasury by raising money from the private sector . |
| 3 | While it is unremarkable to observe that although some people eat three meals a day , and others miss out breakfast and lunch altogether , taking all their food in the evenings , there is no such parallel during sleep — no normal person has been found who , for instance , takes all his or her REM sleep in one session of ninety minutes at the beginning of the night , or saves it all up for a session in the early hours of the morning . |
| 4 | Motoring costs went down by 1.3 per cent , thanks to a further fall in the average cost of second-hand cars and an average drop of 7p a gallon in petrol prices which , together , more than made up for a rise in car insurance premiums . |
| 5 | After Arnold died , Nancy , feeling more strongly than ever what she had always known , that he was the only man she had loved , came to live permanently in the house where he had always seemed happiest , a piece of property he had picked up for a song in the sixties from Barone Dulcibene 's father-in-law , old Count Umberto Baderini . |
| 6 | The children dress up for a saloon in the kind of gear that snooker players or riverboat gamblers wear , with the girls in long dresses . |
| 7 | From the ‘ savings , ’ as they are referred to , funds have been redeployed to make up for a decade in which growth of support for basic scientific research was , at best , sluggish . |
| 8 | Jeff Dujon in action against Worcestershire early in 1984 , warming up for a century in the Old Trafford Test . |
| 9 | But Thomas has been lined up for a return in Sunday 's FA Cup third round tie at Bolton Wanderers . |
| 10 | No German would kill his dad , of that he felt certain , though lately he had begun to feel guilty about his own war efforts since Grace had signed up for a spell in the hospital tents , a mere half-mile behind the front line . |
| 11 | If he was up for a part in a Night Nurse commercial he 'd be sure to get it unless Mickey Rourke turned up for the same audition . |
| 12 | Britain 's oldest and biggest investment trust invited the lucky investor , Fiona Saunders , and fiance Graham Grant , up for a day in London from their home on the Isle of Wight . |
| 13 | ‘ Nothing happened and as I like to race every weekend I signed up for a meeting in France on June 13 ’ , he said . |
| 14 | Got up for a wee in the night . |
| 15 | Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham . |
| 16 | Lining up for a photocall in front of the latest Leyland Daf trucks , just before the announcement of the rosy future the newly formed companies have predicted for themselves . |
| 17 | Dressing up for a walk in the forest to find eggs |
| 18 | A few months as a registrar in Nottingham , then he would be well set up for a job in the place of his choice . |
| 19 | In 1889 he left the lace business in search of larger fortunes and set up as a stockbroker in Nottingham . |
| 20 | I decided this had to be done puristically and had a young boy dressed up as a girl in the play . |
| 21 | Besides , she did n't want to take such a step merely for escape 's sake and perhaps find herself ending up as a prisoner in just another house in just another town . |
| 22 | Nield , from Cheshire , joined up as a boy in a junior leaders battalion before passing out into the Royal Engineers . |
| 23 | Clearly if we tried to apply a legal definition of ownership the asset belongs to Fred , however , unless the business is set up as a company in most countries the law does not recognize the separation of the business assets from those of the owner . |
| 24 | All systems go , then his father died and he threw in his hand to set up as a GP in Falmouth . ’ |
| 25 | perhaps if integrated schooling were more widespread in the North , more protestant voices would be heard against it , particularly if there was a possibility that a nun or priest might show up as a teacher in such an integrated school . |
| 26 | Tony Wilkinson dressed up as a down-and-out in London and lived like a tramp for several weeks as part of a television enquiry into London 's dossers , published in book form as Down and Out . |
| 27 | So there he was , caught in a trap of his own making — being nice to a woman he did n't like , and mean to one he did , and as mixed up as a schoolboy in short trousers . |
| 28 | She has played Mozart on stage and in her new film Orlando plays someone who starts off as a man in Elizabethan times and ends up as a woman in the present . |
| 29 | The former Champion amateur rider was associated with top horses Browne 's Gazette and The Mighty Mac , but everything turned sour when he set up as a trainer in 1990 . |
| 30 | You 've set up as a designer in your own right , Gary ! ’ |