Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there he was , caught in a trap of his own making — being nice to a woman he did n't like , and mean to one he did , and as mixed up as a schoolboy in short trousers . |
| 2 | It was a large room , totally silent save for the voice of one Sister perched up on a pulpit in the end wall , reading portions of the scriptures . |
| 3 | After Arnold died , Nancy , feeling more strongly than ever what she had always known , that he was the only man she had loved , came to live permanently in the house where he had always seemed happiest , a piece of property he had picked up for a song in the sixties from Barone Dulcibene 's father-in-law , old Count Umberto Baderini . |
| 4 | 2 More fundamentally , however , defence of the established electoral system is caught up with a belief in the virtues of the Responsible Party Government model that we discussed in the Chapter 2 . |
| 5 | and to appear in court , he found himself caught up in a drama in which he had been cast as The Defendant , facing the man he had known as Rich whom everyone called The Plaintiff , and being called to order by someone he had never heard of before called The Registrar and his right hand man The Clerk of the Court — and all in the unfamiliar setting ( set ) of a courtroom . |
| 6 | It was not that this could be attributed to a weakening of moral fibre on their part , but rather that they had grown up in a society in which there were few straightforward moral guidelines , and into ‘ a community which is thoroughly confused about morals , and … their behaviour reflects that confusion ’ . |
| 7 | But most readers of this book will have grown up in a society in which the major comparable distinction is between kin and non-kin , and in which it is assumed , or even insisted upon , that kin relationships ought not to enter into the non-kin sphere at all . |
| 8 | The water for washing had to be Pumped up from a well in the scullery every morning for half an hour before breakfast and the drinking water fetched daily in a bucket from a communal tap in the tiny village street . |
| 9 | Thursday 's rehearsals built up to a run in the afternoon . |
| 10 | It was also made up of a hospital in Jerusalem which cares for both Arabs and Jews , an Ambulance Air Wing with 60 volunteer pilots and 50 planes throughout Europe , and an aeromedical section to return people to the nearest hospital to home from the scene of an accident again on a Europe-wide basis . |
| 11 | Phone bookings should be made up to a fortnight in advance on 0229 66063 . |
| 12 | Motoring costs went down by 1.3 per cent , thanks to a further fall in the average cost of second-hand cars and an average drop of 7p a gallon in petrol prices which , together , more than made up for a rise in car insurance premiums . |
| 13 | Pylon inquiry : inspectors explain how the hearing will be conducted Guidelines on how the pylons public inquiry would be run in North Yorkshire were drawn up at a meeting in Northallerton this week . |
| 14 | Lisa Benner — police believe that her body has been washed up on a beach in Kent |
| 15 | A BODY found washed up on a beach in Kent has been confirmed as that of missing Essex woman Lisa Benner . |
| 16 | Got up for a wee in the night . |
| 17 | The final 20 minutes is filled up with a song in three parts ( Rule Two : All songs in three parts are shit , too ) called ‘ Everything Under The Sun ’ , which attempts to be like ‘ Abbey Road ’ , ‘ Tommy ’ , and ‘ Dark Side Of The Moon ’ all at the same time and instead sounds like the worst moments of 10CC , REO Speedwagon and every other would-be epic turd factory band of the 1970s . |
| 18 | And since every violation of the equilibrium is inevitably bound up with a decline in the productive forces , it goes without saying , that in an antagonistic society , the development of the productive forces is made possible only by means of their periodic destruction . |
| 19 | There is evidence that the present east gable is a replacement , made very soon , for another , likewise with a battle , which seems then to have been set up on a base in the sanctuary , its centre akroterion also . |
| 20 | A few months as a registrar in Nottingham , then he would be well set up for a job in the place of his choice . |
| 21 | On this occasion , Plage was set up over a water-hole in a clearing in the jungle , hoping that a leopard would show up to hunt or drink . |
| 22 | Clearly if we tried to apply a legal definition of ownership the asset belongs to Fred , however , unless the business is set up as a company in most countries the law does not recognize the separation of the business assets from those of the owner . |
| 23 | You 've set up as a designer in your own right , Gary ! ’ |
| 24 | Drummonds Bank was set up by a Scot in the Scottish end of London ( the name Scotland Yard dates from mediaeval times when the kings of Scotland and their ambassadors would lodge there . |
| 25 | The 44-year-old director was born and brought up on a ranch in California , before attending military school and a spell in the Marines . |
| 26 | Brought up on a farm in Kenya , he had lived there until he was seventeen . |
| 27 | The hay had been brought up on a wain in front of which two of the farm horses stood , blowing plumes of steamy breath . |
| 28 | The country is not as deserted as all that , as McLeish , brought up in a village in Leicestershire , well knew . |
| 29 | I 'm most delighted to have it , having been brought up in a house in the Isle of Man that was very much a product of the earlier stage of the Arts and Crafts Movement ( it was designed by and built in 1893 ) . |
| 30 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |