Example sentences of "up in the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 2 | Let us say that , although not trapped in a fight for survival , we are all still caught up in the ordinary competitiveness of business , social gamesmanship , and marriage . |
| 3 | Quite a few wound up in the private labs in Switzerland . |
| 4 | Will the right hon. Gentleman further explain to my constituent why people who reach that age end up in the appalling position of having all their age allowances clawed back by the Government ? |
| 5 | The reason why there is so little progress is horribly tangled up in the overall failure of Italy 's public life , a failure which is arousing mounting concern among her EC partners . |
| 6 | The El Nino is a massive surge of warm water that , once every decade or so , builds up in the eastern Pacific along the South American seaboard . |
| 7 | Xanthe stood up in the narrow space between the bed and the door in Miranda 's room , and said , ‘ You look rather ‘ beatnik ’ . |
| 8 | I have known people to hold a rabbit down with one foot and then , after picking the ferret up in the normal way with their other hand , squeeze the ferret 's foot . |
| 9 | On Friday he played the match of his life to beat the defending champion , Jahangir Khan , in five games , and at 6-0 up in the final game on Saturday he was not far from becoming the first player to beat both Khans in the same tournament . |
| 10 | I hope you will take a look at the document and do whatever you can to ensure its recommendations are taken up in the final version of the regulations . |
| 11 | She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show . |
| 12 | Up in the short-term car-park at Terminal Two , Lewis had to drive from floor to floor before he found a slot in which to put the car . |
| 13 | Layla has now taken to curling up in the cubby hole of the desk to answer these calls . |
| 14 | One way to remind ourselves is to reflect that , even today , not all the phenotypic effects of a gene are bound up in the individual body in which it sits . |
| 15 | Like her French contemporaries Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun or Adelaide Labille-Guiard , Angelica Kauffman was caught up in the contradictory politics of class and gender through the elite patronage without which she could not work . |
| 16 | The tempo of living quickens this week and it will be difficult to avoid getting caught up in the frantic pace of events . |
| 17 | The best approach to this difficult joint is to make an initial shallow cut in the end of the arm and feed it up in the correct position to the back . |
| 18 | Scores of multinational companies have set up in the industrial parks on either side of the giant bridge that links Penang island to the mainland . |
| 19 | Many hours were taken up in the dark recesses of the developing room at Oxford 's photography workshop ; even more spent waiting for the precise moment to open the shutter . |
| 20 | I offered , once again , to put him up in the spare room for the night , but , once again , he would n't hear of it . |
| 21 | For anyone brought up in the European tradition of Claudeian vision , the picturesque , and so on , the impact of all this can be startling and pictorially disconcerting . |
| 22 | In the wild they spawn in fast-flowing streams , and the fry grow up in the slower reaches of the river . |
| 23 | This came partly from that confidence built up in the wide affection of the large family , partly perhaps from the arrogance of the supreme athlete , mostly , though , from his view that writing and learning were the real thing : acting was fine and dandy but not in the same league . |
| 24 | On Dec. 11 , 40 holiday homes under construction were blown up in the north-western town of Calvi . |
| 25 | The fire had been lit in the bedroom , and Senga was sitting curled up in the rocking chair beside the fire quietly reading aloud from the latest issue of the " Girls Own Paper . " |
| 26 | It was surely great to be an American going up in the greatest company in the world and in the greatest country in the world . |
| 27 | So ad hoc multi-council boards , run by officials accountable to nobody in particular , had to be set up in the metropolitan areas after 1985 . |
| 28 | Batty and Sterland play in tonight 's continue their fitness build up in the reserve game against Newcastle , tonight Wed and if they come through will be considered for the Boxing Day game at Blackburn . |
| 29 | The work of the Faculty and its course programme are , for the convenience of potential students , broken up in the following pages into the three divisions of Accounting ; Business and Related Studies ; and Hotel and Catering Management ; each with its own introduction to the range of studies available . |
| 30 | We 'll fix you up in the best hotel on the station . |