Example sentences of "[verb] up in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I think he was certainly mixed up in the beastly business of getting into England some of those unhappy Asians who pay through the nose either because they 're desperate to join relatives , or because they think they can find work here .
2 New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept .
3 The nearby fishing village of Porthleven was also badly hit , with a 14ft-deep hole opening up in the back garden of one house .
4 Faced with a new branch of nationwide chain opening up in the next street leading to falling sales at one 's own bookshop , a bookseller might go for interviews with customers leaving the new store .
5 Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ?
6 She believes that it is essential that her children grow up in the outside world and not be hidden away in the artificial environment of a royal palace .
7 Who 's been gossiping to you about her running away with the married man when she was fifteen and ending up in the Daily Record ?
8 If a pregnancy is pre-marital , it trebles the relative risk of a couple ending up in the local authority sector rather than the owner-occupied one ( Murphy , 1983 ) .
9 Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’
10 Massive bottle-necks built up in the early spring on the railway network , at Koslov , west of Saratov on the route to Moscow and particularly at Balashov , between Saratov and Tsaritsyn on the west side of the Volga .
11 This came partly from that confidence built up in the wide affection of the large family , partly perhaps from the arrogance of the supreme athlete , mostly , though , from his view that writing and learning were the real thing : acting was fine and dandy but not in the same league .
12 Slowly , an image built up in the mirrored lens .
13 Addresses do n't have to be mentioned , they can easily be looked up in the electoral roll just from a name .
14 Similarly it seems unlikely that the reader will bother to construct a three-dimensional , photographic representation of ‘ the baby ’ which cries in the first sentence and which is picked up in the second sentence .
15 We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place
16 Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's .
17 ‘ But to suggest that coincidentally this recording , made just a fortnight earlier , was also picked up in the same way does stretch one 's credibility . ’
18 The immediate remedy is usually to petition for winding up in the public interest , so that a provisional liquidator ( the Official Receiver ) can be appointed , halting the company 's activities .
19 Batty and Sterland play in tonight 's continue their fitness build up in the reserve game against Newcastle , tonight Wed and if they come through will be considered for the Boxing Day game at Blackburn .
20 The fire had been lit in the bedroom , and Senga was sitting curled up in the rocking chair beside the fire quietly reading aloud from the latest issue of the " Girls Own Paper . "
21 The company was wound up in the High Court in February 1989 with tax debts of £35,520 .
22 A theorist might suggest that the conspirators are principally , but not exclusively , Jewish : for example , there might be some Gentile Freemasons caught up in the conspiratorial network .
23 They will be used on humanitarian aid projects by UN High Commission for Refugees teams providing urgently-needed food , blankets and clothing to people caught up in the Balkan conflict .
24 Auguste found himself caught up in the general excitement and cursed his heavy waterlogged costume .
25 Everyone seemed to be caught up in the general euphoria except the bride .
26 So there is evidence that the immune system is caught up in the pathological process , but whether it 's truly an auto-immune disease is not so clear .
27 James 's private quarrel with William now became irretrievably caught up in the greater feud between England and France .
28 Let us say that , although not trapped in a fight for survival , we are all still caught up in the ordinary competitiveness of business , social gamesmanship , and marriage .
29 Like her French contemporaries Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun or Adelaide Labille-Guiard , Angelica Kauffman was caught up in the contradictory politics of class and gender through the elite patronage without which she could not work .
30 The tempo of living quickens this week and it will be difficult to avoid getting caught up in the frantic pace of events .
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