Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] up in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader : |
| 2 | The campaign showed few issues and , with the Conservatives overwhelmingly backed up in the popular press , was wholly one-sided . |
| 3 | Bath also had a resident gem-cutter , whose collection of 34 unmounted intaglios somehow ended up in the main drain carrying the overflow from the reservoir housing the hot spring . |
| 4 | If he just suddenly hits me without warning , thought Bob , I shall almost certainly go straight over backwards with my feet still caught up in the bar-stool , and split my skull open on the floor . |
| 5 | Learn to study ahead of the lectures by using the techniques of chapter 4 in the section on Key words and Pattern of notes and by drawing pattern diagrams for two topics soon to come up in the lecture programme . |
| 6 | In April I make the journey to London from my home in Suffolk , with my paintings carefully wrapped up in the back of my car . |
| 7 | When the large whisky-blending house of W. and G. Pattison collapsed fraudulently the following year he tried and failed to arrange a rescue package , but DCL did provide financial help to firms unwittingly caught up in the crash . |
| 8 | Misinterpretation is easy for children today growing up in an environment very different from those in which the stories were told originally . |
| 9 | Drill-holes never end up in the right place , screws do n't go in straight , and no matter how carefully they measure , nothing ever quite fits . |
| 10 | Her own college , at first encounter , struck her as somewhat dimly conformist , with long brown corridors and an unexpectedly high proportion of young women apparently wrapped up in the triumphs of yesteryear on the hockey field or in the prefects ' Common Room , but even there she had discovered part of what she was looking for : in the persons of Liz Ablewhite ( now Headleand ) and Esther Breuer ( still Breuer ) she had discovered it , and rediscovered it there each time she met them , which was , these days , on average once a fortnight . |
| 11 | Even the £25 pairs favoured by northern women often end up in the kitchen as chip fat or paint strainers , handy onion storers or to plug leaking pipes . |
| 12 | Visegrad 's streets were deserted yesterday as Serb irregulars exchanged sporadic fire with the handful of Muslim gunmen still holed up in the town . |