Example sentences of "[verb] up under the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Thomas reported optimism , however , that the situation is opening up under the new coalition government that came into being a few months ago . |
| 2 | ( He thinks you 've cracked up under the strain — ask him about his geraniums . ) |
| 3 | The late arrival had necessitated her getting out of bed and throwing on a voluminous dressing-robe in order to prepare suitable accommodation — on a night such as this , moreover , when all a body wanted was to curl up under the quilt and hide from the horrors outside . |
| 4 | This concrete path is cracking up under the strain of thousands of paws padding over it . |
| 5 | All three firms are crushed by debts built up under the communists . |
| 6 | A skill he has obviously picked up under the guidance of Dalglish . |
| 7 | he 'd go upstairs and Shirley would have put all the clean clothes back in the wardrobe and he 'd go in the wardrobe oh , no I wo n't wear that , no I wo n't wear that and half the time she found the cleanest clothes were all rolled up under the bed . |
| 8 | Section 221 provides that an unregistered company may be wound up under the Act . |
| 9 | This meant that steering the boat was made particularly difficult , with the Atlantic swell surging up under the quarter and sending the ketch careering down ever larger mountains of water . |
| 10 | Having grown up under the nose of the Israeli war machine , young Palestinians have come to the conclusion that , in the world they inhabit , might is right and the only way to survive and flourish is to be strong and violent . |
| 11 | Keep a packet of pitta bread in the freezer , heat up under the grill from frozen and cut into fingers . |
| 12 | Turning up under the new name of ABC Workstation Solutions Ltd , Harpenden , Hertfordshire , the checkered past of this UK start-up has taken some interesting turns . |
| 13 | But if MAFF 's original assessment for the UK 's LFA had been based on an objective survey rather than merely regurgitating the ‘ hill line ’ drawn up under the 1946 Hill Farming Act , it would have had a more reliable basis to which the results of its Hills and Uplands land classification could have been added to determine some meaningful handicap zones . |
| 14 | If the securities are to be listed in the member state where the issuer has its registered office , the listing particulars must be drawn up under the laws of , and approved by , the competent authority in that member state . |
| 15 | Ruth got into bed and sat there , knees drawn up under the covers . |
| 16 | A line of the malabars , named after the Indian immigrants who had brought them to the colony , had been drawn up under the trees in the square outside the Continental Palace Hotel when they emerged to go to Cholon with Jacques and Paul Devraux to buy the last of their hunting supplies . |
| 17 | These arrangements are part of a wide ranging package of service s standards drawn up under the campaign banner of a commitment to customers . |
| 18 | The Convention was drawn up under the aegis of the Pompidou Group [ see pp. 37394 ; 35127 ] and would enter into force once ratified by three signatories . |
| 19 | After 16 years of dictatorship from 1973 to 1989 an executive President is , under the 1980 Constitution ( drawn up under the previous military regime and amended in 1989 ) elected for a four-year term . |
| 20 | Argentina had reportedly resisted allowing the banks the option of making new loans , as had been the case in the 1990 Mexican and Venezuelan agreements [ see pp. 37243 ; 37313 respectively ] , also drawn up under the March 1989 Brady Plan [ see pp. 36541-42 ] . |
| 21 | ‘ I walked round her bed I could see her lying face up under the bedclothes , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Er , er , a man who grows up under the shadow of his father , as it were . |
| 23 | It was not easy to grow up under the shadow is over whelming father as he lashed Iran into a nation , Like almost everyone else in Iran , the Crown Prince was very much afraid of him . |
| 24 | I threw up under the trees . |
| 25 | Then I sow one of my colleagues die from a heart attack and two others crack up under the strain . |
| 26 | It involves putting make up UNDER the skin , using a special probe . |
| 27 | He had hoped to find him attempting to dress but he was still propped up under the shower , hands against the wall . |
| 28 | If it rains , do you think that doll will be able to sit up under the hood of the pram ? |
| 29 | With the tent flap closed , the heat had been building up under the canvas . |
| 30 | Calero mentioned that the American revolutionaries too had front companies like those set up under the Enterprise , established in Europe to take in money from France and Spain . |