Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time , her eyes screwed up in a spasm of misery . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ says McPherson , ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ — his voice is breaking with emotion — ‘ Oh God , Mary , I do n't want our kids to grow up in a world like this , with man an enemy to man , and cats crawling all over the books , in a cold water walk-up behind the subway depot . |
| 3 | Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door . |
| 4 | Erica De'Ath , Teenagers Growing up in a Stepfamily |
| 5 | Her lips curved up in a smile . |
| 6 | Although in every case the judge must balance the commercial or property rights of the plaintiff in controlling the information against the value of the defendant 's right of free speech , for many judges brought up in a world which accords pre-eminent value to rights of property , this may seem like balancing hard cash against hot air . |
| 7 | A system which has the intelligence to acknowledge that people are more than just a bag of bones dressed up in a birthday suit and that ill-health is not only caused by biological factors , but social , political , economic and environmental ones as well . |
| 8 | I do n't buy guitars to put up in a cabinet on the wall . |
| 9 | The two women in the sombre , fusty dignity of the drawing-room at Buller 's Hill House ; Matthew Choak , trying his uncle 's chair for size ; the little room overlooking the bay where the undertaker kept his secret troubles locked up in a drawer like Pandora 's box ; the Scapegoat turning over and over in its garland of flame ; the clothing , some of it blood-stained , spread out on tables in the police station . |
| 10 | Laverne , I just want you to know that business could be seriously affected if my guests end up in a mess , dammit . |
| 11 | John 's mother , Maria , who had often earned her living as a seamstress , made the lavish costumes ; the cream-coloured dresses made up in a pinafore smock style reaching just below the knee . |
| 12 | On entering one , he discovered a home-brew still which the owners broke up in a trice , handing the retort to Yakovlev ‘ as a trophy ’ . |
| 13 | Jane Henson turned into Miss THUGGY when she spotted Wilkins and Wontkins , two Muppet-style characters caught up in a copyright row , at a toy trade fair in the New York Hilton . |
| 14 | there 's rugby at Stow on the wold on Sunday … teague … hastings … andrew … skinner lots of big names lining up in a charity celebrity match they land by helicopter at lunchtime … |
| 15 | Later , when people got squeamish about that sort of thing , they substituted cats — a dozen or so live cats tied up in a sack . |
| 16 | Pain Teens open up in a cloud of dry ice that fills the stage and eventually leaks out on to the dance floor . |
| 17 | It tells a poignant story about the community where Singleton grew up : of three friends growing up in a South Central Los Angeles neighbourhood , and of street life where friendship , pain , danger and love combine to form reality . |
| 18 | Now that we were being treated as human beings , rather than sorry creatures penned up in a basement , we could relax a bit , which gave us a chance to replenish our flagging energies . |
| 19 | An children grow up in a flash , |
| 20 | Unless children grow up in a family , they are bound to find it hard to share and , until she starts playing with other children 's toys , she may well think that all toys belong to her . |
| 21 | She spoke quite often of snowy landscapes glimpsed through carriage windows and small hands curled up in a muff made of grey fur , even though she could not have been more than three at the time . |
| 22 | Other points coming up in a sec . |
| 23 | GREEN-THINKING pupils cleaned up in a recycling competition to create new toys from old household items . |
| 24 | Two men pull up in a jeep . |
| 25 | The next Moon-dwellers cropped up in a newspaper report of observations by the noted astronomer Sir John Herschel , using his superb 610-cm ( 20-ft ) telescope at the Cape of Good Hope , South Africa . |
| 26 | A bit of a burden , but she treasured it all , he wealthy possessions screwed up in a ball . |
| 27 | Dishes piling up in a sink . |
| 28 | There was a set of letters tied up in a bundle with a violet silk ribbon and all written in the same ridiculous and now-faded violet ink ; they were scented with old makeup ( each one bore at the bottom of its last page a lipstick kiss in Nuits de Paris ) and were on expensive and indeed pretentious notepaper as thin as an onion skin . |
| 29 | It can be uniquely specified with reference to all the categories set up in a description of the form of the language concerned ; it thus represents the intersection of a grammatical item and lexical item . |