Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] up in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the layman they all look pretty similar : crisp emerald weed buoyed up in the stream and then , in July , a snow in summer of glistening white flowers , which spill over the water in a way that seems to spell out the brief abundance of midsummer . |
| 2 | The bike drew up in the yard under the tree . |
| 3 | The three raiding parties laid up in the mountains during the day to observe their targets and descended on to the coastal plain as darkness fell . |
| 4 | And the wind got up in the night and pretty strong and we had a hut a twenty by twenty five foot fourteen eighteen war hut in the middle of a square and there was a shop and a storeroom besides . |
| 5 | The awful triumvirate of fear , guilt and anger has to be faced and the tension built up in the body dealt with . |
| 6 | But as Percy Makepeace twittered through the hall and down the corridor with his clerical acquaintance , two more cars drew up in the Burleigh driveway . |
| 7 | Then a car drew up in the courtyard and at the same time the telephone rang . |
| 8 | Outside , the bad dog recommenced barking rather savagely as a car drew up in the yard . |
| 9 | As we spoke , a car drew up in the carport ( which incidentally was still just as I 'd built it 15 years ago ! ) and to our astonishment ( because the ownership had changed since we sold it ) the lady recognised us ( she 'd been given our Edinburgh address by a mutual friend and had actually called on us once , which we 'd totally forgotten ! ) . |
| 10 | From time to time , her eyes screwed up in a spasm of misery . |
| 11 | His look deepened and the corners of his well-defined mouth turned up in a half-smile of mystery . |
| 12 | Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door . |
| 13 | The dark eyes fired up in an instant . |
| 14 | Several other sets of doors were dotted around the floor and , far off to the left , a black maw opened up in the wall , with so little light coming from it that Benny was certain the tunnel beyond turned several times before reaching the outside world . |
| 15 | Swathes opened up in the crowds on either side as they saw the brickbats coming . |
| 16 | Her lips curved up in a smile . |
| 17 | The figure curled up in the chair by the fire , stirred and yawned toothlessly . |
| 18 | That is the private opportunity cost of the funds tied up in the project . |
| 19 | A civilian judge investigating the case died on Nov. 19 when her car blew up in the capital , Santiago . |
| 20 | Safri cleaned up in the song awards , with Par Linghade judged best dance song and best cover song and Bomb The Tombi the best album . |
| 21 | The child Nizan grew up in the shadow of death . |
| 22 | The industry grew up in the Lake District because there was a demand for gunpowder in the slate quarries and copper mines of the region , and because of the ready availability of birch and alder for charcoal and fast flowing becks to drive the machinery in the area . |
| 23 | In other words , the reef grew up in the presence of the starfish . |
| 24 | Almost all schools ended up in the black in the first year . |
| 25 | As Richard stood up in the boat , he could be seen to hesitate , not about what he wanted to do , but about procedures . |
| 26 | Two of his brothers ended up in the House of Lords . |
| 27 | King Charles VII won Bayonne back from the foreigners in 1451 after a siege and , if a plaque set up in the cathedral has it right , with a little supernatural help . |
| 28 | Certainly , the complex set up in the city meant that the bishop , appointed in the time of Sigibert , was only too easily suspected of treason by Guntram — and the arrival of Gundovald clearly did not help matters . |
| 29 | One night , later in their affair , O woke up in the middle of one of his long and noisy dreams and lay there for a long time looking at Boy 's face as he slept . |
| 30 | ‘ Kenneth Baker came up in the House to offer congratulations . |