Example sentences of "[vb past] up in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Massive bottle-necks built up in the early spring on the railway network , at Koslov , west of Saratov on the route to Moscow and particularly at Balashov , between Saratov and Tsaritsyn on the west side of the Volga . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Slowly , an image built up in the mirrored lens . |
| 4 | It should be noted , however , that an alternative hypothesis has been suggested for the formation of the Straits of Dover by Stamp ( 1927 ) , who thought that they were due to the southwards overflow of a proglacial lake ponded up in the southern North Sea by an ice front stretching from England to Holland . |
| 5 | Two nights later he woke up in the small hours and lay there coldly . |
| 6 | I woke up in the early hours of the morning and it was still there — the first thing that come into my head . |
| 7 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 8 | ‘ And once he woke up in the early morning , and saw a rat in the middle of the floor , looking at him . |
| 9 | More to him perhaps than the relief afforded by the crude sex was the fact that he woke up in the meagre home of a real working woman , warm like a picture by Chardin ; ‘ a wooden floor with a mat and a piece of old crimson carpet , an ordinary kitchen stove , a chest of drawers , a large simple bed . ’ |
| 10 | … One of the topics came up in the following week 's Science lesson … the girls took great delight in showing the boys how to perform the tasks ! … the improvement in their confidence was most marked . ’ |
| 11 | Similar discrepancies opened up in the agricultural sphere . |
| 12 | ‘ You thought that if you turned up in the smart suit and with the laser-beam smile you 'd wow them into panting agreement ? ’ |
| 13 | Next day he would find the little piece of paper screwed up in the waste-paper basket and the matter ignored . |
| 14 | Having walked the Gorges of Kakouetta and then rested up in the benign landscape of Sainte-Engrâce , you may feel you have the legs back to inspect another of the spectacular limestone phenomena of the Upper Soule . |
| 15 | There was great excitement in February 1987 , when a supernova flared up in the Large Cloud and became an easy naked-eye object . |
| 16 | If they were watching for her , they would n't expect her to travel on the night boat from Liverpool , with a rough sea battering at the B & I ship , while the drunks and the seasick threw up in the smelly lounges . |
| 17 | Therefore , it is advisable to coat the surface of the dish with a 1% solution of agar made up in the synthetic medium of choice for subsequent culture ( 14 ) . |
| 18 | These are usually presented as small corners made up in the particular moulding to give you an idea of the finished effect , but any reputable framer will be able to answer any questions you have , as well as give you plenty of sound advice should you need it . |
| 19 | The computation involved is complicated , but well within the powers of a small box of modern electronic components wired up in the proper way . |
| 20 | You got up in the early morning and helped in the farm , milked the cows , fed my cows and calves and looked the pigs , and then you 'd hens and chickens and the pet lambs and things like that . |
| 21 | Great granite fortresses sprang up in the misty vales and from them Dragon Princes rode the thermals over sullen volcanoes . |
| 22 | As a regular attender of Irish League games could I suggest that the 22,000 who turned up for the United v Villa debacle perhaps try the fare served up in the Irish League which I 've no doubt they would find much more exciting ( unless Bangor and Ards are involved ! ) |
| 23 | Plugging a Japanese Strat into the high impedance Input 1 socket , the Champ booted up in the Normal channel . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If the universe consisted of just the elements cooked up in the big bang , then W would be about 0.1 — ten times larger than it appears , but ten times less than theory demands . |
| 26 | Jenna pulled up in the small courtyard and sat for a moment looking at it . |
| 27 | Within moments of setting off , she was lost from view , swallowed up in the white mist . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | When this happens , the social opportunity cost of the resources tied up in the public project is the return that households could have obtained on the same resources . |
| 30 | No one brought up in the Jewish faith with his sort of European connections could fail to be unaware , or convulsed , by the nightmare we call the Holocaust . |