Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two , to see whether we can knock down the price and whether we can get him to come up here in the same way as Doctor does and do it that way to reduce the costs . |
| 2 | Consequently she never stopped bellyaching to Daisy about how all the other Pony Club members had at least three ponies , and how humiliating it was having to hack to meetings when everyone else rolled up either in the latest horse boxes with grooms , or driving Porsches with telephones . |
| 3 | Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore . |
| 4 | They trembled not from fear , but from anger and resentment which had built up rapidly in the 24 hours since he had heard the ridiculous order from Washington . |
| 5 | He would crop up repeatedly in the anxious preoccupation with the demoralising influence of popular amusements , the collapse of ‘ fair play ’ sportsmanship , and the allegations of excessive ‘ freedom ’ and ‘ affluence ’ that were levelled against the young . |
| 6 | Real changes will show up only in the next ten or 20 years , and even then they may be hard to monitor against the confused background of deteriorating conditions in today 's Soviet Union . |
| 7 | Lining up tonight in the 450 metres event are the highly-rated Belle Vue racer No Joe Soap , Powderhall 's Rhincrew Legend , Dawn Milligan 's Smashiton , Sheffield-based Ragus and Gordon Rooks ' Movealong Sharp , which won three on the trot at the East Boldon circuit before losing on the run-in last week . |
| 8 | She then went into the kitchen and wrote a letter to her mother , which she would have ready for poor Monica Waters , who would certainly be turning up here in the next day or two . |
| 9 | " I was thinking how little I know of you , and wondering how and why you turned up here in the first place . " |
| 10 | The first to open is ‘ Zwanenburg Bronze ’ , whose bronze-streaked yellow flowers open up wide in the low shafts of February sunshine . |
| 11 | The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side . |
| 12 | Suicide in more conventional forms shows up prominently in the later records of the Kindertransporte , when the work of the RCM had been merged with that of the Central British Fund ( CB F ) . |
| 13 | This change shows up directly in the uneven spacing of Figure 2 , and corresponds to a change in shape of the nucleus from a sphere to a prolate spheroid , or ‘ rugby ball ’ shape . |
| 14 | Problems flared up again in the 430s , when the Bacaudae gained a leader called Tibatto . |
| 15 | Chancellor Norman Lamont is about to announce a further cut in base rates , but most people fear they are just as likely to go up again in the New Year , according to a new survey . |
| 16 | But what intrigues us even more is how the hell it got up there in the first place . |
| 17 | But when we tol When we told us they said Oh they 'd have come down to match the nearest competitor , and we thought oh why did he quote up there in the first place then . |
| 18 | Is there anything coming up locally in the next er |
| 19 | Those who visit the church in late spring and early summer will be entranced by the swifts who have set up home in the upper reaches of the building and wheel about the place , filling the area with their raucous but comforting squealing . |
| 20 | Because I have it , whether it 's anything to do with my aristocratic ancestors or the fact that I was brought up properly in the old-fashioned way to respect integrity and honesty and decency . |
| 21 | Sam said , ‘ Morning , ’ but Camille glanced at him haughtily and looked away : she considered that she had no time for the working classes , although her mother 's best friend had been brought up here in the olden days before the supermarkets and the middle class had come to compete for space . |
| 22 | They found Googol tied up securely in the Emerald Suite with a leather hood over his head . |
| 23 | It was not necessarily a kindly mood — the number of types of crimes that carried the death penalty went up steadily in the early eighteenth century — but it was practical rather than cruel . |
| 24 | Ninny , played with strength and softness by Jessica Tandy — tells her new pal a tale of two girls who grew up together in the racist Deep South of the Thirties . |
| 25 | It grew up originally in the Southern middle-class suburb of Dalkey , County Dublin , and around the Church of Ireland national school there . |
| 26 | Hari felt the impulse to ruffle William 's hair but she knew he would resent being treated like the child he was , boys grew up quickly in the harsh realities of World 's End . |
| 27 | OUTPUT inched up again in the fourth quarter of 1992 for the second quarter running , which could be taken to mean the recession has formally ended . |
| 28 | For instance , the incidence of reported rape has gone up dramatically in the last five years but this has also coincided with a change in police policy designed to give victims support and to take every allegation seriously . |
| 29 | And as the soldier lit up there in the open ground , and twilight faded around them , someone started playing ‘ Roses of Picardy ’ on a mouth organ . |
| 30 | It was the prelude to a period of closer co-operation in the Middle East which began to break up only in the later 1960s when the British government decided to retreat from most of its " East of Suez " commitments . |