Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up into a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Anne reminded me of a gazelle , then Mrs. Constantine was like a snake : supple and seemingly without bones , smooth , lustrous , with wicked black eyes like stones and shining black hair twisted up into a knot on top of her head and a wide , wide mouth with disturbingly red lips and a flickering tongue that darted out to lick the crimson lips when she was concentrating on the cards . |
| 2 | And did he have their little scarves sewn up into a patchwork quilt ? |
| 3 | The battle broke up into a series of duels across the skies of Scotland , from Edinburgh to North Berwick . |
| 4 | Right , I think you should get all this stuff written up into a file , a help file . |
| 5 | Parts of its head wrinkled up into a half frown . |
| 6 | When a length has been rigged between one radial cable and another , she gives it a twang with one of her legs and the glue breaks up into a line of beads . |
| 7 | Its head was down and its back sloped up into a kind of point at the rear . |
| 8 | They were dull-eyed and fur clad , with hair bound up into a bunch at the crown and the rattle of bones and polished stones around their limbs . |
| 9 | It 's a bit hard to describe : like a normal scroller rolled up into a ball-shape . |
| 10 | Darwin had to think carefully about what is now called the problem of speciation : how a single species splits up into a number of ‘ daughter ’ species . |
| 11 | The whole house smelled of it , of lost youth shrivelled up into a kind of dust . |
| 12 | Windows were smashed clean out in fourth-floor dressing rooms as actor and understudy flared up into a fight . |
| 13 | The first door to port opened up into a food store , the corresponding door to starboard was locked . |
| 14 | In fact , it was much more common for colonies to break up into a number of separate units as they grew larger . |
| 15 | It is unique in the millipede world for its ability to roll up into a sphere as a means of protection . |
| 16 | No one can deny that he is more exciting , excitable and unconventional , with a mix of old and new Hollywood rolled up into a package that mixes James Dean with Humphrey Bogart , though Nicholson insists that he does not want to be compared with anyone . |
| 17 | Any one ‘ gene ’ in the functional sense , is in fact split up into a sequence of fragments ( exons ) separated by meaningless introns . |