Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repeat for each stitch to be embroidered and after last stitch of row , bring needle up through stitch below instead of stitch to left ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 2 | At Shiel Bridge , at the head of Loch Duich , the road climbs west up into Ratagan Forest and up through Glen More , emerging out onto a short Jack-and-the-Beanstalk plateau , and then hard and drearily down to Glenelg from whose shore the Isle of Skye across the Sound of Sleat may almost be reached by fingertip . |
| 3 | That is , just as a county council in eighty five , all the councillors are up for re-election just as in a parliamentary general election , yeah ? |
| 4 | Those special events are treats that we save up for look forward to are also subject to the ravages of inflation . |
| 5 | By the time I got into position , my lungs were bursting and I had to go up for air again . |
| 6 | Constantly putting yourself up for rejection just because you 're grown-up now wo n't help your self-esteem . |
| 7 | He produced a practical edition ( with chapter-divisions ) of Einhard 's Life of Charlemagne : in his prologue , written after 840 , Walahfrid held up for emulation both Einhard 's scientia and the preference of the " most powerful and most wise " Charlemagne for the company of wise men . |
| 8 | Black kids are psyched up for sport anyway . |
| 9 | Right lads , a lot of them coming up for sport today . |
| 10 | And I 'll need somebody to wake me up for work tomorrow . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ What if we both get too drunk to get up for work tomorrow ? ’ she asked as they climbed aboard the bus and put their money in the ticket machine . |
| 12 | When employees fail to turn up for work today , it can often cause huge management headaches , particularly in labour intensive industries where absence may require reallocation of production line work and potential bottlenecks in the system . |
| 13 | Moreover , children attending school and adults turning up for work inevitably have their liberty restricted : simply because the engagement in one activity necessarily restricts their opportunity to participate in other activities , that is , restriction by effect . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The strikers did turn up for work yesterday morning but found the gates locked . |
| 16 | He explained that there were a limited number of places , with sixteen or seventeen taken up for September already ( I wondered whether this meant Balbinder might be unlucky , but did not like to ask ) . |
| 17 | After a further six years ' wait ( during which my original proposer and seconder had died and their nominations had been taken up by two ex-captains ) , my name came up for election again , and this time , I was told , the opposition from members , particularly those in the legal profession who were friends of Lord Robertson , was fiercer . |
| 18 | I 've been advised to stay away from political jokes ( they too often get elected ) but in the UK , party workers say : ‘ If you put a monkey up for Parliament here and stuck a red ( or blue ) rosette on him , he 'd get in . ’ |
| 19 | Up for grabs today is a K-Reg Metro 1.4s , worth around £10,000 on the road which will come to our winner fully taxed for a year and with a full tank of petrol . |
| 20 | In all eighteen of west oxfordshire 's forty-nine seats are up for grabs tomorrow |
| 21 | I think that people like us are up for grabs anyway . |
| 22 | Er you know I think i er it 's all up up for grabs really . |
| 23 | The Arts : The palazzo on the Strand is up for grabs Once the tax gatherers have been cast out , Kenneth Powell envisages a brilliant future for Somerset House |
| 24 | So that was the attitude hey , but erm they 'll have me up for libel here . |
| 25 | Mind you , we 'll still make sets with the old gauge low Bs in them , because some players do n't want to make the shift and some basses just are n't set up for strings that big . ’ |
| 26 | A Celtic move set Mowbray up for life financially , and Middlesbrough hit the jackpot with a seven-figure profit for a player from the junior ranks . |
| 27 | There are matters concerning the teaching of languages for specific purposes ( LSP ) which come up for consideration here as well . |
| 28 | The nature of learner error comes up for consideration here . |
| 29 | Head teacher John Moorhead and pupil Frankie Mckay , who turned up for school yesterday morning |
| 30 | Better prospects had by now opened up for Charles elsewhere with the death of Pippin of Aquitaine in December 838 . |