Example sentences of "[verb] up in [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was struck by how similar the behaviour of different species can be , as in ( for example ) the courtship of different species of ducks which grow up in very different environments . |
| 2 | Her book features 100 authentic recipes that can be conjured up in just 35 minutes from start to finish , including antipasti and starters — try ricotta-stuffed dates for an unusual appetiser — and pasta , risotto and other typically Italian main courses . |
| 3 | increase goes to arts projects — the museums and galleries improvement schemes and other proposals that his Department funds — and is not caught up in too much bureaucracy . |
| 4 | ‘ For those children who get caught up in totally anti-social behaviour there is no point in just looking at the friendships . |
| 5 | It is built up in very thin washes . |
| 6 | It is built up in very thin washes . |
| 7 | The agreement , which was drawn up in fairly obscure terms , proposed that the now-sovereign states of the former USSR should return to each other works of art on the basis of whose territory they were created on , the nationality of the artist , or just on the principle of ‘ I want it , it 's mine ’ . |
| 8 | Cuddle it right , it 's wrapped up in about six layers of erm whatever , are you just going to pick it up and cuddle it or are you going to do anything with all those layers ? |
| 9 | Hence the lack of competition shows up in abnormally high airline costs . |
| 10 | I 'll engage to pull down in three hours what you 'll be building up in as many years , in spite of all the lessons you can teach her . |
| 11 | Very quickly , however , such preoccupations were swallowed up in vastly greater ones . |
| 12 | You wake up in yet another hotel bed and you do n't know what day it is or where you are . |
| 13 | Since distribution concerns access the requirements of a distribution system , by happy chance and some contrivance , can be summed up in yet another acronym , ACCESS , standing for : |
| 14 | The most attractive reason in the current economic climate can be summed up in just one word , margin . |
| 15 | The large trucks that are used by professional carriers where the horse is sealed up in almost complete darkness and isolation , frighten horses more than two-horse floats pulled by cars or the more open trucks frequently used by professional riders . |
| 16 | With thoughts of conservation I can understand this but then one must understand the times when these were being worked and in the 19th and early 20th century this chalk gave a great many people employment and allowed families to be brought up in reasonably comfortable conditions and many of us now owe our very existance to these cement factories , our fathers and grandfathers earning their livings working on them . |
| 17 | older generation that were brought up in under different whatevers , |
| 18 | Also , unlike others who had been brought up in more cultured surroundings , it was a rarity for him to go to the theatre and even more of a rarity to go to other forms of public entertainments , including the cinema . |
| 19 | claim that many of those who are promoted before they are 30 embark upon successful management careers and they end up in unambiguously middle-class jobs . |
| 20 | How many ponies end up in totally unsuitable homes or in so-called sanctuaries . |
| 21 | But I must be safe with this — I hate seeing dogs dolled up in supposedly smart clothes ; you know the kind — scarlet plastic macs with matching sou'wester and booties . |
| 22 | The clothes that the children wear or dress up in often prompt comment . |
| 23 | Booklets can be very popular indeed and some booklets have been taken up in very large quantities . |
| 24 | Yet questions have to be asked quite seriously about whether Eubank himself can maintain his work-rate with a tenth world title fight lined up in just 24 months . |
| 25 | However , effective S-turns are not easy to do , and they need to be practised if they are not to end up in dangerously steep turns or in bringing the final turn too close to the field . |
| 26 | One source said : ‘ Certain phrases cropped up in supposedly different conversations with alarming regularity . |
| 27 | That one is particularly pleasing , as it conveys the idea of equality wrapped up in more recent connotations which assign customer status to both patron and client . |