Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the parts of the country where things have been a bit flat seem to be the north and the south west and both of those are regions in which export orders received fell in the previous two surveys so that seems to be consistent although in the north they seem to have picked up somewhat in this survey erm and optimism is also erm er stronger in this survey than it was in the previous one . |
| 2 | He could n't remember the transition from sofa to bed , but he must have made it because he woke up there in total darkness with a headache and a blocked nose and a sense that something was not quite right . |
| 3 | PAT officials say the number of cases has shot up dramatically in recent months , and is now running at about one case each week . |
| 4 | Gently turn up the heating , and ensure that they are wrapped up well in light blankets or warmer clothing , and take warm drinks . |
| 5 | She said ; I would not want to go up there in this wind . |
| 6 | He says : ‘ They were rare even in Binks ’ day , but the strange thing was that there was a tradition among the people who lived up there in those days to make a ball out of clay and cover it with spring gentians . |
| 7 | She comments on the role of women in contemporary American society , using a variety of technical tricks to reveal the ‘ feminine ’ nature of objects that crop up regularly in day-to-day life . |
| 8 | ‘ Just as long as you get up there in one piece and stay put all night you can crawl up on your hands and knees for all I care . ’ |
| 9 | The huge improvements in productivity have borne up well in recent months . |
| 10 | ‘ You realize , Stevens , I do n't expect you to be locked up here in this house all the time I 'm away . |
| 11 | These were taught in a number of schools which had sprung up mainly in large cities throughout the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | It is a complex carbohydrate and consists of starches and fibre bound up together in such things as bread , potatoes , fruit , vegetables , nuts and pulses . |
| 13 | A trust is set up even in this way : ‘ I want you to give ’ ‘ I desire you to give ’ ‘ I believe you will give ’ . |
| 14 | Seeing it there , foursquare in soot-streaked stone , with its barred windows , great studded iron door , and high walls trimmed with barbed wire , makes her think with a shudder of the men cooped up inside in cramped cells smelling of sweat and urine , rapists and pimps and wife-beaters and child-molesters among them , and her heart sinks under the thought that crime and punishment are equally horrible , equally inevitable — unless men should change , all become like Charles , which seems unlikely . |
| 15 | Indeed , among the more bizarre places to find an Armani are holes in the wall in the Sicilian hill villages around Corleone where unlaundered mafioso cash comes out at tea time every day in search of status-promoting glad rags — the same suits that turn up simultaneously in posh Paris bistros , Los Angeles lizard lounges and the boardrooms of the most respectable British banks . |
| 16 | These matters will be taken up again in more detail in the next two chapters . |
| 17 | This matter will come up again in later parts of the book . |
| 18 | If you get out of position and if you find yourself too low , move up slowly in small steps , checking the movement every few feet . |
| 19 | I ask myself why the people do n't live up here in these glades beside the rushing streams . |
| 20 | People would turn up again in large numbers on Wednesday nights to be paid for their produce . |
| 21 | The terms have been cropping up increasingly in this magazine and elsewhere : ‘ the London funk ’ , ‘ the drum and bass groove ’ , ‘ the jazz not jazz explosion ’ … a myriad of catchphrases for records that refuse to sit within any one easily categorised genre . |
| 22 | However , evidence suggests that , after an initial fall-off , admission numbers at those museums which charge have held up well in subsequent years . |
| 23 | Turnout held up best in Tory wards . |