Example sentences of "be [verb] up in the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
2 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
3 | Most of your belongings are stacked up in the hall and the bedroom . |
4 | A dozen of the company 's senior executives have been caught up in the country 's ever-widening corruption scandal . |
5 | She 'd thought about going back to her room for a while , maybe find out from Josie what she 'd been caught up in the night before , but it would take her more than half an hour to walk . |
6 | ‘ Unfortunately , we 've been caught up in the crossfire and we 've had people on to us saying they 'll never smoke Camel cigarettes again . |
7 | Police believe Gary may have been caught up in the world of drugs and met his death as a result . |
8 | Now that new possibilities are opening up in the Balkans , they will modify this . |
9 | For many Christian people who are caught up in the whirlpool of grief , the most difficult part may well be their realization that they are in fact feeling very distressed . |
10 | Plans cater for both an immediate accident and the long-term care of individuals who survive or are caught up in the disaster — including the rescuers . |
11 | The water had been picked up in the Humber estuary and used as ballast . |
12 | Lead from petrol bought outside the Turin area would not have been picked up in the study . |
13 | I am curled up in the armchair , flicking through a book . |
14 | The purples are echoed in the colour wash on the wall and the oranges are picked up in the flowers . |
15 | When words are looked up in the word look-up tree , if the flag for start of compound is set , the compound tree is checked . |
16 | Yet we also have the example of Robert Ferguson , the Whig plotter who had been mixed up in the Rye House intrigues and Monmouth 's Rebellion . |
17 | Nevertheless , the survey concluded that ‘ a very considerable qualitative and quantitative momentum ’ had been built up in the training of part-time teachers for general adult education in the local authority sector and that this was beginning to spill over into vocational teaching . |
18 | Objections to the creation stories are made up in the name of science . |
19 | In addition , savers can miss up to six monthly payments over the five years provided they are made up in the months immediately following the five-year term . |
20 | They 're growing up in the village . |
21 | when you 're brought up in the war you see , waste not , want not |
22 | They 're all th round there , round that dahlia they 're coming up in the corner over there , and there 's some here , and I think they 're all coming . |
23 | Things do tend to get out of proportion when you 're shut up in the mountains . |
24 | By the middle of the eighteenth century alluvial workings had been opened up in the Ural mountains . |
25 | Does this mean that as I am going up in the lift , I see it expanding ? ’ |
26 | Departmental Budgets are drawn up in the wake of the Sales and Production Budgets . |
27 | In the UK , the institutional mechanics are broadly that a government 's intended expenditure plans for the coming four years are drawn up in the autumn of each year , with the upcoming year being the dominant period for consideration . |
28 | Instead , they are bound up in the replication of previously set standards and routines which may actually frustrate the straightforward goal of simply getting housework done . |
29 | Moral and economic rights are bound up in the concept of copyright . |
30 | The station has been converted to burn confiscated marijuana which has been piling up in the warehouses of the local police forces . |