Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] up in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creatures that bestride the dividing line between amphibians and reptiles and between mammals and protomammals , are constantly turning up in the fossil record . |
| 2 | Hitherto she had been so tied up in the day-to-day mechanics of the company that she was often forced to consider time for research as a luxury . |
| 3 | Five and six in the morning , and you 're always waking up in the middle of the night cos you do n't know , you know , if summat 's happened or summat 's gon na happen . |
| 4 | One of the problems of deciding how much of a person 's temperament is inherited is due to the fact that babies are usually brought up in an environment of both parents , or at least more than on individual , and that they take a while to grow and show many personality characteristics . |
| 5 | As waste dumps all over Europe are frantically dug up in the search , other interesting things have come to light . |
| 6 | As adjacent word positions are also looked up in the word look-up tree , they are checked for whether or not they are the appropriate words to complete the compound . |
| 7 | Ex-Loop-ers Neil and drummer John originally formed the Traders as an offshoot-cum-hobby when Loop took an extended break from music , but are now wrapped up in the band full-time . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's certainly wiser to be more covered up in the sun , ’ she says . |
| 9 | The last thing I want after the programme is to be still caught up in the atmosphere of the studio . |
| 10 | I 'm always waking up in the night . |
| 11 | Sadly , teachers too are sometimes caught up in a competitive assessment system — perhaps even as beneficiaries . |
| 12 | William Beveridge , the author of the famous report on National Insurance , was himself a Liberal , not a Socialist , and his ideas were widely taken up in the Tory Party . |
| 13 | Key members accused the MPs of being so caught up in the technical arguments and the prospect of winning one concession from the Government after a barren frustrating decade that they lost sight of the big picture . |
| 14 | Martha 's school dress and books , her one skirt , two blouses and handful of frayed underwear were swiftly parcelled up in the coarse paper Nana used in the shop . |
| 15 | I have the feeling that if oil supplies were somehow caught up in the Yugoslavian position , an armed intervention force would already be in that country . |
| 16 | He was hungry and conscious of the delicious greasy bundle in his bag , but he believed fish and chips were usually heated up in the oven anyway , so they would n't spoil . |
| 17 | we were always brought up in the country , you know |
| 18 | The experience comes very close to being mistakenly caught up in a lawnmower . |
| 19 | The horrors of Belsen concentration camp , meanwhile , were eloquently summed up in the painting of Doris Zinkeisen . |
| 20 | The horrors of Belsen concentration camp , meanwhile , were eloquently summed up in the painting of Doris Zinkeisen . |
| 21 | As an instance , carriage doors which were formerly framed up in the body shop and then transferred to the finishing shop for the fixing of the interior lining , afterwards being sent to the polishing shop to be french polished and finally returned to the body shop for fixing in position , were now dealt with by an altogether different method . |
| 22 | They were thoroughly caught up in the contest . |
| 23 | A number of people from the North-East were also caught up in the riots . |
| 24 | The bronzes were later set up in the Porticus Metelli , the first secular building in Rome specifically intended for the display of booty . |
| 25 | At least people knew where they stood with him , and the darkened corridors of local government , with their forbidding and ever-present whiff of graft and back-scratching , were now lit up in a blaze of publicity . |
| 26 | Open fields without hedges or other divisions were awkwardly split up in a system known as ‘ run-rig ’ between joint small tenants living in a small village or ‘ fermetoun ’ , each annually allocated strips or ‘ rigs ’ of from a quarter to half an acre , with a rough- and ready attempt to balance the better and poorer land between the respective individuals . |
| 27 | Anyway , as you know , we were almost brought up in the same bassinet , and , as I made out to Mama just a short while ago , if Isobel had to choose between the horse and me , the horse would come out best . ’ |
| 28 | She did n't feel she could bother Mike with the problem either ; he might be team manager , but like everyone else his thoughts were closely tied up in the cars and their drivers . |
| 29 | His overcoat and fur hat were neatly hung up in the hall and his overboots reposed on the boot tray in the back sunroom . |
| 30 | Large parts of the Suiheisha were subsequently caught up in the government 's clampdown on radicalism after the mid-1920s . |