Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] up in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader : |
| 2 | The campaign showed few issues and , with the Conservatives overwhelmingly backed up in the popular press , was wholly one-sided . |
| 3 | Bath also had a resident gem-cutter , whose collection of 34 unmounted intaglios somehow ended up in the main drain carrying the overflow from the reservoir housing the hot spring . |
| 4 | If he just suddenly hits me without warning , thought Bob , I shall almost certainly go straight over backwards with my feet still caught up in the bar-stool , and split my skull open on the floor . |
| 5 | By 1984 , the Prudential Trophy had metamorphosed into the Texaco Trophy , and the first game at Old Trafford contained the finest dish ever served up in a one-day international . |
| 6 | ‘ Later they told me my body just went up in the air and I was hanging on by one hand . ’ |
| 7 | Further volumes of Henry Oakeley 's Journal also turned up in the County Record Office - for the years 1862–1866 . |
| 8 | So it seems that the weakening of the trade winds allowed more surface water normally piled up in the western Pacific to flow back eastwards across the ocean . |
| 9 | Learn to study ahead of the lectures by using the techniques of chapter 4 in the section on Key words and Pattern of notes and by drawing pattern diagrams for two topics soon to come up in the lecture programme . |
| 10 | Polar Star is no exception ; its lovely clueless opening soon snarls up in a mess of motives and half-finished characters . |
| 11 | In April I make the journey to London from my home in Suffolk , with my paintings carefully wrapped up in the back of my car . |
| 12 | Now this kind of behaviour often ends up in a fierce debate about guidebook descriptions and grades of the participants ' favourite routes . |
| 13 | When the large whisky-blending house of W. and G. Pattison collapsed fraudulently the following year he tried and failed to arrange a rescue package , but DCL did provide financial help to firms unwittingly caught up in the crash . |
| 14 | The sales then marked up in a Gollop poll . |
| 15 | McAllister , clad in her shabby bottle-green dress enlivened at the throat by a bit of cheap lace , her serviceable shoes on her feet , her hair simply tied up in a knot on top of her head , her hands red raw from hard and constant manual work , resignedly straightened up , to meet the gaze of Havvie and his friends . |
| 16 | The loyalty oath duly turned up in the book — Major Major is blacklisted and is thereby debarred from taking the oath . |
| 17 | In July 1914 air travel was still a novelty to many people and during an outing by employees of an Accrington firm of billiard table makers to Blackpool , a deaf employee named Jack Hargreaves became possibly the first deaf man ever to go up in an aeroplane when he went up as a passenger in a two-seater Fokkers biplane piloted by a Mr. H. Blackburn . |
| 18 | We are all used to thinking of the Earth as some kind of large magnet , with two magnetic poles located quite near the geographic North and South Poles , so that the needle of a compass always lines up in the same direction . |
| 19 | As she stood up in her stirrups , stretching over Hermia 's nearside shoulder to hit the forehand , her right leg automatically swivelled up in the air . |
| 20 | Misinterpretation is easy for children today growing up in an environment very different from those in which the stories were told originally . |
| 21 | Drill-holes never end up in the right place , screws do n't go in straight , and no matter how carefully they measure , nothing ever quite fits . |
| 22 | The blonde woman was always elegantly dressed and absolutely immaculate , even when she came off the beach , her hair neatly pinned up in a French pleat or out of sight under a chic floppy straw hat . |
| 23 | Her own college , at first encounter , struck her as somewhat dimly conformist , with long brown corridors and an unexpectedly high proportion of young women apparently wrapped up in the triumphs of yesteryear on the hockey field or in the prefects ' Common Room , but even there she had discovered part of what she was looking for : in the persons of Liz Ablewhite ( now Headleand ) and Esther Breuer ( still Breuer ) she had discovered it , and rediscovered it there each time she met them , which was , these days , on average once a fortnight . |
| 24 | The second Lord Redesdale once stood up in the House of Lords to argue that ‘ denial of the hereditary principle is a direct blow at the Crown . |
| 25 | Even the £25 pairs favoured by northern women often end up in the kitchen as chip fat or paint strainers , handy onion storers or to plug leaking pipes . |
| 26 | The SBD was shipped to Hawaii where it was refinished in a Navy camouflage paint scheme and reportedly used for at least one air-to-air session but the resulting footage never ended up in the film . |
| 27 | Once a cheerleader at the University of Texas , she looks like an innocent suburban housewife unknowingly mixed up in the rough-and-tumble world of Texas politics . |
| 28 | Releases money currently tied up in a depreciating asset on which no direct return is being obtained or capital employed . |
| 29 | I have n't managed to find out whether anyone from East Sussex actually rang up in a panic . |
| 30 | Wedding first , Pertwee 's wedding , and Hatton all got up in a topper with his tarty wife . |