Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] up in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The barber took a knife to the thicket , weighed it when it was off , and gave her 2½ lb of hair wrapped up in tissue paper which the nurse briskly took from her as soon as they were outside because she did n't believe in being morbid . |
| 2 | Cuckney challenges the view that there are vast sums of money locked up in pension funds floating around the City that could be diverted towards helping struggling small firms to grow . |
| 3 | But until you consider the amount of money tied up in County Farms , and the return it gives us , and the , the subsidy if you like of so few people , and you think that school ca n't have toilets and things like that , then these should all go into the decision making melting pot , and this council should not blind itself to the various options that there could be , and in those circumstances Mr I think should be allowed to explore the possibilities of the market . |
| 4 | Counting the cost of a fire which has brought his business to a standstill and caused ten years of research to go up in smoke . |
| 5 | ( Indeed it could be that the fullness of humanity summed up in Christ would be well represented by a woman and a man concelebrating . ) |
| 6 | Aaron Hicklin , in Mostar ( left ) , learns how a beautiful mountain region in Bosnia-Herzegovina is co-existing with war after generations of rural tranquillity Centuries of peace go up in smoke |
| 7 | We skirt an abyss-like hole , narrowly avoid a rock , then another wall of water rears up in front of me , blocking out the sky . |
| 8 | ‘ We 're simply disappointed to see this kind of attack turn up in Li Peng 's work report , ’ British Embassy spokeswoman Janet Rogan said after the speech . |
| 9 | ‘ It is terribly distressing to watch hundreds of years of history going up in smoke , ’ she said . |
| 10 | A school of painting grew up in Cuzco which became the leading centre of the production of paintings south of Mexico and exported paintings and painters to many other parts of the continent including remote areas . |
| 11 | The Labour Party made its voice heard , and a storm of protest blew up in Parliament . |
| 12 | Arriving early for a night session is a good idea for several reasons , not least those I have mentioned about having plenty of time to tackle up in daylight , bait the swim , and settle in comfortably . |
| 13 | Further , we can expect interactions between pure deictic M-tense concepts and cultural divisions and measures of time to show up in L-tenses . |