Example sentences of "up in [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But her new sheets smelled of lavender and there was a comforting stone hot-water-bottle at the foot of the bed , wrapped up in part of an old blanket so that it would not bruise her toes , and Victoria 's gentle breathing was drowsy as the humming of bees , and she slept , with the tears drying on her cheeks . |
| 2 | But a CCETSW working party set up in response to the acute shortage of practice placements heard evidence that social workers finishing DipSW courses were having problems finding jobs . |
| 3 | They had been set up in response to the current level of terrorist activity , but the need for them was assessed daily . |
| 4 | The insurance giants were being snapped up in response to the strong turnround in their fortunes . |
| 5 | Environmentalists reacted with caution to the UK government 's White Paper on the future of the coal industry , drawn up in response to the widespread protests over the announcement of pit closures in October [ see ED 64 ] . |
| 6 | However Hans Beck also spoke up in defence of the European Community PHARE programme in the face of attacks from local critics , many of whom view it as a means of circulating funds from the European Community to Western economic advisors and consultancy firms , delivering few tangible benefits . |
| 7 | However Hans Beck also spoke up in defence of the European Community PHARE programme in the face of attacks from local critics , many of whom view it as a means of circulating funds from the European Community to Western economic advisors and consultancy firms , delivering few tangible benefits . |
| 8 | I looked up in amazement at the abrupt shift . |
| 9 | However she did seem to get better , and no one could have been happier than my master , when he saw her sitting up in bed for the first time , and beginning to take an interest in the people and things around her . |
| 10 | Get tucked up in bed with a good book |
| 11 | On returning home I retired , tucking myself up in bed with a hot toddy bottle . |
| 12 | She was sitting up in bed with a light shawl round her shoulders and a book on her lap , apparently quite composed . |
| 13 | This must be why his collection is , despite the inclusion of some beautiful and thrilling descriptive writing , less readable than those predecessors for which one reaches when tucked up in bed on a stormy night . |
| 14 | THE proceeds of a fund set up in memory of a former MP will be used to maintain mountain footpaths in the Snowdonia National Park . |
| 15 | The campaign , which aims to raise £500,000 , was originally set up in memory of a seven-year-old Kent boy who dies in 1979 . |
| 16 | At last he began to sense that when he entered Lincoln he would keep his end up in spite of the sketchy nature of his post — Pauline preparation for the Oxford Final History Honours School . |
| 17 | In 1806 , Napoleon made the most of his victories by imitating the Caesars and decreeing that a great monument should be set up in honour of the Great Army that had done so well . |
| 18 | Cheered and keyed up in expectation of the pleasant story-book sight in prospect , her hot hand squeezing the scone in her pocket , she followed the path as it passed under the line of windows , before it skirted the domed conservatory where flowers were grown for the house : cactus , geraniums , gloxinia , palms , bird of paradise , passion-flower , maidenhair fern , all throve here in damp and forceful luxury . |
| 19 | Tilda 's mind was made up in favour of the New World . |
| 20 | Security is lost and the traditional social networks have broken up in favour of the commercial nexus . |
| 21 | My friend Jim 's wife is in America and my other pal 's had his heart broken by a hard-hearted woman with a background like yours , who passed him up in favour of an arranged marriage . ’ |
| 22 | The campaign to open membership of the British Association of Social Workers to non-qualified staff is being stepped up in preparation for a renewed debate on the issue at the association 's annual general meeting in Birmingham . |
| 23 | September to October , " the suicide months " , posed a special hazard as the heat and humidity built up in preparation for the rainy season . |
| 24 | The opening ceremony , set for last May , was cancelled , and local activists had to remain on the original walls while gazing up in wonder at the spectacular treat they were being denied . |
| 25 | Just as the recession of 1980–81 was made worse by holding rates up in pursuit of a money-supply target , so today 's recession could be intensified by the pursuit of an exchange-rate target . |
| 26 | Melissa looked up in surprise at the earnest ring in Sybil 's voice . |
| 27 | The following Monday afternoon , shortly after lunch , two customers poring over the jewellery in Fox 's Lair looked up in surprise as a tall man came into the shop like a whirlwind and gave Elise a brief , unsmiling greeting . |
| 28 | More and more members of the American foreign service were coming to question the belief , strongly held at the end of the war , that the USSR was more likely to be caught up in rivalry with the British than with the United States . |
| 29 | But there was only misery for Middlesbrough as their treble hopes went up in smoke with a 4–2 defeat at home to Portsmouth in their replay . |
| 30 | But that calculation had gone up in smoke with the original letter , and since then she must have bitterly regretted her rashness . |