Example sentences of "up in [art] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , in those days the mistress was generally kept by her lover , set up in a cosy little love-nest somewhere , her accounts settled with no questions asked … |
| 2 | By the late 1980s , Ceauşescu was on course for creating a new type of humanity : people brought up in a squalid spiritual void , learning only outward conformity and inward cynicism . |
| 3 | Cut-price chains Presto and Lo-Cost , caught up in a bloody head-to-head battle with discounters like Kwik Save , managed only a small profits increase . |
| 4 | Very cautiously , they opened the door , and saw nothing more alarming than poor Oliver , curled up in a sad little heap on the step . |
| 5 | Novice anthropologists are not all birds of a feather but most readers of this book are likely to have grown up in a modern industrialized society of the sort which presupposes a particular type of major distinction between private affairs and public affairs . |
| 6 | But remember that they 're tucked up in a nice warm greenhouse and it can be pretty chilly outside . |
| 7 | Perhaps their attitude can be summed up in a nice little phrase from one of Dally 's patients : ‘ The pleasures of eating are fleeting , but the pleasures of fasting are lasting . ’ |
| 8 | Born in the late 1930s , Edhi grew up in a small Indian village , Bantva , near Junagadh ( Gujerat ) . |
| 9 | Mum kept out of sight until he had left , then down the stairs she came , all dressed up in a long black taffeta dress , which rustled when she moved . |
| 10 | The concrete was cold to his bottom , and he stared at the stairs down which Bunty had fallen , his throat and his face and his eyes seeming to swell up in a great hot surge of grief . |
| 11 | This has a shuffling joss-sticky booga-booga spook beat and a strange haircut ; this is the record that Pop Will Eat Itself have been trying to make for the past 24 months , the grinning idiot love-child of Mr Desmond Drugmusic and Mrs Winnie Indiewhine brought up in a radical lesbian commune in Vancouver , Canada and fed on a diet of black pudding and Ecstasy . |
| 12 | Nuclear power has been given an encouraging thumbs up in a recent Daily Telegraph survey which looked into what kind of country the British public wanted their children to inherit . |
| 13 | Fancy him turning up in a snivelling little place like Bethlehem . |
| 14 | Curtain up in a grand old Belfast tradition |
| 15 | The Biohybrid pancreas consists of beta cells from animals wrapped up in a patented acrylic plastic and implanted under the skin or in the abdominal cavity . |
| 16 | A minute or two later he drove up in a battered English saloon car with a bumper and two door handles missing . |
| 17 | As night fell on Stabiae , Vesuvius presented an awesome sight , with the oppressively heavy ash cloud above it lit up in a baleful red glare from the many fires that had been started by the rain of hot ash . |
| 18 | As Ice Cube Summed it up in a simple four-word news release : ‘ No justice … no peace ’ . |
| 19 | Her slender body was untidily bundled up in a big leathery jacket and she was wearing long , shiny red boots . |
| 20 | The letters are pinned up in a big main post office and generous people send the presents . |
| 21 | It was clear that the free-enterprise ( indeed , Thatcherite ) peoples of Hong Kong were likely to be swallowed up in a huge Marxist empire of uncertain direction . |
| 22 | ‘ Go , little son , like a good child ! ’ she called , then flung both hands up in a queer quick gesture — and was no longer there . |
| 23 | Next , intermittent or semi-continuous explosions may hurl solid material up in a dense dark mass , with the leading fragments soaring straight up into the air , trailing smaller fragments behind them , and looking from a distance like rockets . |
| 24 | But if you were Jewish , and had grown up in a strict kosher home it might be difficult to accept , even if you now had a broader view through your conversion to Christ . |
| 25 | Then turn to the opposite direction by stepping with the left foot about a shoulder 's width to the left , thus ending up in a left forward stance in the opposite direction . |
| 26 | Deee-Lite are three hitch-hikers picked up in a red 1962 Falcon station wagon that levitates into the clouds . |
| 27 | The third common explanation suggested that growing up in a white racist society and with few positive black public images created low self-esteem and self-concept in black children which in turn led to poor performance in schools . |
| 28 | The most enduring band of their time now seem like a memory bound up in a few classic singles and a reputation for ‘ nuttiness ’ . |
| 29 | She recognized curry , but not the strange things which accompanied it , a pale beige paste with a dusty yet lemony flavour , and bits of cucumber chopped up in a bitter white sauce . |
| 30 | Cornelius bathed , togged up in a faded Hawaiian shirt and his favourite ( only ) summer suit . |