Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] up in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gold bracelets , silver spoons and thousands of coins dug up in Suffolk field |
| 2 | Later on that week we were talking in the library again and somehow the topic of owls came up in conversation once more . |
| 3 | It condemns us as lifelong victims of patterns set up in childhood , the unwilling prey of our devilish subconscious , the helpless captives of our ‘ character ’ or genetic make-up . |
| 4 | Then Jilly cast off her chadour and sang , a plaintive rendering of ‘ The Winter of Seventy-Nine ’ , and suddenly , as happens on these occasions , the knockabout mood changed , people stopped laughing , tears stood in eyes , as Jilly 's harsh , grating flat voice lamented the year and deplored the future , as her white , beaky , angry face gazed fiercely at the audience , as the confined energy of months swelled up in self-pity around the room , orchestrated by Jilly 's incantation : |
| 5 | The most recent review of quotas set up in March 1987 failed to conclude its review , and as a result the IMF board of governors requested fresh proposals for new quotas by April 1989 ; until that review the level of Fund quotas remained unchanged at SDR89.99 billion . |
| 6 | Yeah , keeping myself busy I 've got a lot of surveys coming up in Caernarfon of all places |
| 7 | The future lay with minds of a different type — minds which saw that government was a matter of administration , and not an attempt to reproduce on earth a pattern of things laid up in Heaven . |
| 8 | Because that elephant is going to probably require an environmental assessment or environmental statement erm and there would be infinite numbers of details to tie up in section one O sixes and goodness knows what else specific to that user or users , those users when they the came in the frame . |
| 9 | There 's traffic chaos in the region tonight with thousands of motorists caught up in tailbacks more than seven miles long . |
| 10 | Research has shown clear links between the level of crime and number of children brought up in poverty in families in difficulty . |
| 11 | I think erm , often when judges , I do n't know whether George or any other judges that might be here tonight , one of the things which I as a judge often dread is photographs of babies coming up in competition . |
| 12 | In 1975 , the year after the fall of Haile Selassie , and four years before the fall of the Shah , the witness of revolutions turned up in Angola for the abandonment of their colony by the Portuguese : the subject of the third of these books of his . |
| 13 | Dexter pressed his nose against the grid of cold metal but all he could make out in the shadowy interior was a counter and the shimmer of clothes hung up in plastic bags . |
| 14 | In Russia customers queue for goods ; in this fashionable men 's clothing store , if we adopt the right perspective , we can see rows and rows of shirts queuing up in wait for someone willing to spend a day 's wages on a monogrammed polo shirt . |
| 15 | But in the Tory Party there are a lot of votes piled up in corner shops . |