Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as a child growing up in the Fifties , she and her sister , Marlene , preferred to spend their sixpence pocket money on animal welfare classes run by a local RSPCA inspector rather than go to the cinema . |
| 2 | The poem is thus curiously " displaced " , a late Victorian work turning up in the crisp 1930s , the Auden decade . |
| 3 | The creation of air-mobile strategic reserves could lead , they thought , to a reduction in static overseas garrisons ; and the replacement of troop-ships by trooping-aircraft should also save manpower locked up in the trooping pipeline . |
| 4 | We are not told this but it is easy to say that the plot opens up in the Deep American South between the two world wars , from the way the coloured people are treated , the fashions , and the descriptive backgrounds . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , shades of Intel Inside , expect to see a PowerPC image campaign starting up in the second half . |
| 6 | A polity grew up in the nineteenth century that , through changes of regime , was characterized by its narrow social base and the ‘ exclusion of subordinate classes from any form of participation in the political sphere ’ ( Giner 1985 : 311 ) . |
| 7 | The contrast shows up in the different notions of ‘ social capacity ’ . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , whether the contract drawn up in the first place has been a correct one or not , I 'm not sure . |
| 9 | In Honduras , the pressures of a growing debt crisis built up in the late 1980s . |
| 10 | This came partly from that confidence built up in the wide affection of the large family , partly perhaps from the arrogance of the supreme athlete , mostly , though , from his view that writing and learning were the real thing : acting was fine and dandy but not in the same league . |
| 11 | Consider the case of a teacher brought up in the hard school where right answers were rewarded by praise and wrong answers by the cane . |
| 12 | According to IDC , only 3% of workstation kit ended up in the financial sector — which invests more heavily in high-end and on-line transaction processing multi-user Unix systems . |
| 13 | A year and a half ago , Hotspur thought , this fierce faun was surely no more than seventeen years old , and married off , like many another , to an old miser three or four times her age , for the sake of a noble name and a set of paltry quarterings , and the hope of a grandson set up in the landed estate . |
| 14 | The Child Poverty Action Group , a pressure group set up in the 1960s , urged governments to deal with this problem by increasing family allowances . |
| 15 | What are you doing sat up in the high chair ? |
| 16 | The Still Waters project began two years ago , while Denyer was doing shoots for the Broads Authority , a body set up in the late 1970s to manage and protect the area . |
| 17 | Checkpoint Charlie , the crossing point set up in the early 1960s between East and West Berlin is to be opened to millions of people on Wednesday . |
| 18 | " Ham " acting shows up in the slightest twitch of an eyebrow . |
| 19 | This literally causes water to pile up in the western Pacific : a veritable hill of water . |
| 20 | I would have no difficulty whatever in going on any hustings and waxing eloquent about foul sewage coming up in the wrong places . |
| 21 | To try and reduce the potential for stress to build up in the first place . |
| 22 | The plain walls were painted in a typically French eighteenth-century green , a colour picked up in the rich , floral design of the fabric , copied from an eighteenth-century Lyons silk , battened to the adjoining wall , and used for the opulent bed coverings . |
| 23 | I closed my eyes but seconds later there was a scream and the sound of crashing undergrowth ; Matata had found a snake curled up in the warm ash of the fire . |
| 24 | In this , Ken played a drama instructor caught up in the then current controversy over corporal punishment . |
| 25 | Faced with a new branch of nationwide chain opening up in the next street leading to falling sales at one 's own bookshop , a bookseller might go for interviews with customers leaving the new store . |
| 26 | Some 44 per cent of the 65 advertisers interviewed saw the economy picking up in the last quarter of this year at the earliest , and a further 35 per cent did not envisage an improvement until 1993 . |
| 27 | Next day he would find the little piece of paper screwed up in the waste-paper basket and the matter ignored . |
| 28 | Will the right hon. Gentleman further explain to my constituent why people who reach that age end up in the appalling position of having all their age allowances clawed back by the Government ? |
| 29 | If developed countries do not want their rubbish to end up in the third world , they must help developing countries to build better treatment facilities and enforce higher standards . |
| 30 | The nearby fishing village of Porthleven was also badly hit , with a 14ft-deep hole opening up in the back garden of one house . |