Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . |
| 2 | From time to time , her eyes screwed up in a spasm of misery . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ says McPherson , ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ — his voice is breaking with emotion — ‘ Oh God , Mary , I do n't want our kids to grow up in a world like this , with man an enemy to man , and cats crawling all over the books , in a cold water walk-up behind the subway depot . |
| 4 | His look deepened and the corners of his well-defined mouth turned up in a half-smile of mystery . |
| 5 | Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door . |
| 6 | Erica De'Ath , Teenagers Growing up in a Stepfamily |
| 7 | Her lips curved up in a smile . |
| 8 | Sweeping into Battersea Park , the anti-lock brakes show to advantage as the car pulls up in a flurry of leaves . |
| 9 | Black silk skirt maroon blouse her hair done up in a bun draped with gold jewellery oh talk about looking the part ! |
| 10 | As the title suggests , this is the tragedy of Thomas Fox ; the narrative draws out the disintegration , physical and mental , of an innocent boy caught up in a world of inexplicable rules and inescapable brutality . |
| 11 | A child grows up in a community in which people moan and cry when they are in pain ( as he does himself ) ; in which they also use expressions like ‘ I 'm in pain' and ‘ I 've got toothache ’ ; in which others react sympathetically to their linguistic , as to their non-linguistic , expressions of pain ; and so he comes to use the linguistic expression himself in the place of the natural expression . |
| 12 | Although in every case the judge must balance the commercial or property rights of the plaintiff in controlling the information against the value of the defendant 's right of free speech , for many judges brought up in a world which accords pre-eminent value to rights of property , this may seem like balancing hard cash against hot air . |
| 13 | She could imagine the girl curled up in a cupboard , trying to breathe noiselessly , willing her heartbeat to be less loud . |
| 14 | Book-oriented homes lead to book-oriented children : a child brought up in a home where reading is encouraged as a major activity is more likely to read voraciously from an early age . |
| 15 | A girl brought up in a convent with the whole town knowing her circumstances could not be expected to feel any warmth towards the people who lived in splendour over in Westlands . |
| 16 | The actual configuration taken up in a solvent , in the liquid or in the solid , will , however , depend upon the sum total of all the interactions whether intrachain or interchain rather than upon the nearest neighbours only . |
| 17 | He was waiting for a couple of soluble aspirin to break up in a glass of water as he stood before the opened mirror-cabinet . |
| 18 | I could be a hard-working career girl mixed up in a murder case , doing some solo sleuthing to get her fiancé off a murder charge . |
| 19 | Or an office girl mixed up in a murder ? |
| 20 | A system which has the intelligence to acknowledge that people are more than just a bag of bones dressed up in a birthday suit and that ill-health is not only caused by biological factors , but social , political , economic and environmental ones as well . |
| 21 | That benighted member of the Established Church of England ended up in a barrel on an English pier . |
| 22 | My eye swelled up in a matter of minutes , and I was unable to hear anything . |
| 23 | He wrote love-letters for his less literate friends , as did William Lovett growing up in a fishing village at the other end of England . |
| 24 | In 1959 Dean Martin turned up in a Sinatra film , Some Come Running , having been wandering in the Hollywood wilderness since breaking up with his former screen buddy Jerry Lewis . |
| 25 | Alston , Thesiger and Martin holed up in a wadi near the old rendezvous . |
| 26 | I do n't buy guitars to put up in a cabinet on the wall . |
| 27 | The two women in the sombre , fusty dignity of the drawing-room at Buller 's Hill House ; Matthew Choak , trying his uncle 's chair for size ; the little room overlooking the bay where the undertaker kept his secret troubles locked up in a drawer like Pandora 's box ; the Scapegoat turning over and over in its garland of flame ; the clothing , some of it blood-stained , spread out on tables in the police station . |
| 28 | One day there might be a bleary-eyed buzzard with his wing taped up in a splint , looking very sorry for himself ; the next there might be a baby sparrow basking under a red heat-lamp , recuperating from the attentions of a cat . |
| 29 | While they were with him , the rest of the band pulled up in a van outside . |
| 30 | In another experiment , Sissons ( 1970 ) arranged for an actor to dress up in a suit and bowler hat and stand on Paddington station , periodically asking people the way to Hyde Park . |