Example sentences of "[pron] up in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was pouring with rain , so we dolled ourselves up in wet-weather gear and swayed like Michelin men back down the lakeside path nicknamed by Stuart the Yellow Brick Road . |
| 2 | Yet to set ourselves up in such a manner contradicts our cherished notion of being part of the community . ’ |
| 3 | Markus Wolf , the former head of East German intelligence from 1958 to 1987 who gave himself up in 1991 [ see p. 38447 ] , was charged on Sept. 24 with treason , espionage and corruption . |
| 4 | He 'll be cheering himself up in one or the other place by now without a backward glance . |
| 5 | Johnnie Armstrong , distinguished from others of that surname by the to-name of Black Jock , dressed himself up in all his finery and rode with fifty of his best men to meet the king in Teviotdale , obviously hoping to impress him as a near equal . |
| 6 | ‘ Because he mixed himself up in poor Donny 's murder . ’ |
| 7 | He caught himself up in horrified confusion . |
| 8 | ‘ When my name is cleared , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ I 'd like to set you up in better premises , supply you with as much leather as you need and get you an apprentice or two . ’ |
| 9 | I will pick you up in twenty minutes . |
| 10 | The agreement over education was so clear that when the first revolutionary Irish government set itself up in 1918 , prior to negotiated independence , there was no Minister for Education . |
| 11 | But for one zany week in March , the place sheds its stay-at-home Cinderella rags , paints its face and gets itself up in motley as Clown Town . |
| 12 | If not , simply leave them nearby , and the dog will probably pick them up in due course . |
| 13 | put them up in that middle one . |
| 14 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 15 | Let's say Vargas has picked one of them up in one of those pubs the soldiers frequent round the Tower . ’ |
| 16 | You can work on those and you can build them up in two or three or four year 's time job changes this might take a bit more of a a higher priority . |
| 17 | Daly invents new words , breaks them up in provocative , punning ways ( as with the title ; and therapist becomes the-rapist ) and plays on obsolete meanings , as with glamour ( originally ‘ possessed of magical powers ’ ) , haggard ( connected with witchcraft ) and spinster ( one who spins a new thread ) . |
| 18 | You can often pick them up in second-hand bookshops . |
| 19 | When these new factors are brought out by the informant the interviewer can then follow them up in more detail by a simple prompt , such as ‘ Tell me more about what happened when the old vicar died and this new man came who fell out with the schoolmaster . ’ |
| 20 | Shannon , constantly mopping her feverish forehead , is , like the giant lizard tied up and thrashing under the floorboards , at the end of his rope , and the party of Texan school teachers he is leading on a ‘ tour of God 's world ’ are incensed about his having put them up in flea-bag hotels and fallen into bed with the teenage student they have brought along . |
| 21 | In fact I think you can probably still pick them up in antique shops and second hand shops and probably a lot of people have still got some . |
| 22 | Dorothea had often wondered about the crumbs , whether they stored them up in some kitchen jar and you got them , months later , coating your fish . |
| 23 | Rescuing beleaguered maidens had a certain passing reward , but most of the time he 'd finished up by setting them up in some city somewhere with a handsome dowry , because after a while even the most agreeable ex-maiden became possessive and had scant sympathy for his efforts to rescue her sister sufferers . |
| 24 | Disappointingly strawberries do not freeze so if you do not eat them at once you need to use them up in some other way . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , we still tell each other our dreams and look them up in these absurd books , and still read our horoscopes — just for fun . |
| 26 | It needs to be full somebody said that you can wrap them up in these papers and they stay frozen . |
| 27 | She dressed them up in full nineteenth century bourgeois feminine regalia and had them flower arranging or idling by the mantelpiece as in ‘ Angela ’ . |
| 28 | An , you know yourself , I 've come every week here and set them up in different bits and pieces . ’ |
| 29 | Then suddenly a doctor walked in all dressed up in his green gown and a face mask and said , " Hello , this is it then , " and a nurse took my ankles and shoved them into some stirrups and covered me up in all this green cloth . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , you could stop picking me up in that van . |