Example sentences of "[pron] up in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was born at Preston in 1732 and got little education ; he was apprenticed to a barber , and set himself up in the barbering trade at Bolton later . |
| 2 | We 'll fix you up in the best hotel on the station . |
| 3 | We 'll fix you up in the best hotel on the station . |
| 4 | Selene never again made a long speech , but she was happy ; and after Mrs Gracie died Dinah took shares in the business , which by then had set itself up in the old Asshe house while Dinah moved out to Hampstead . |
| 5 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 6 | They were kicked senseless and then handed over to the Military Police who locked them up in the roofless regimental prison before they were handed over to the Colonel of the Regiment for interrogation and questioning . |
| 7 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 8 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 9 | I looked them up in the big dictionary my father had bought for me by mail order at the beginning of the year . |
| 10 | People sent their daughters to Cambridge School , dressing them up in the toffee-brown and pale-blue uniform Elizabeth Jarvis had selected . |
| 11 | She stopped for a moment , then said suddenly , ‘ Let's look them up in the veterinary register and see roughly how old they are , judging from the year they qualified . ’ |
| 12 | Well I I I would prefer to perhaps follow this one up in the closed session later but erm . |
| 13 | A yellow and a pink one up in the same plant . |
| 14 | Too tired to think any more , she kicked off her sandals and freshened herself up in the scented blue-tiled bathroom , brushing her hair and wiping her hands and face , and then her feet , on the fluffiest white towel she had ever felt . |
| 15 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 16 | Any way , Aunt Bessie brought her up in the little house built by her husband and brother-in-law which was near to South Stainmore . |
| 17 | Her mother had brought her up in the strict religion of the Mormon church , which made her very guilty about having sex . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I want to know whether we 're going to be blushing when they put him up in the Foreign Ministry at a press conference and he spills . ’ |
| 20 | They always , they always lag as you know , our , our , we always underspend capital in the first half against what our division think they 're gon na do and they always think they 're gon na catch it up in the second half , they never do but erm , it wo n't be , you know , it wo n't be materially different . |
| 21 | Perhaps he just picked it up in the right place . |
| 22 | They hammed it up in the spectacular 17th century building unaware that smoke from the candles was blacking up the beautiful hand-painted ceiling . |
| 23 | Look it up in the six textbooks mentioned in chapter 4 , draw a pattern diagram and study the rays or branches one by one , committing part to memory and part to short notes for further use . |
| 24 | From McIntosh 's point of view it was not an easy decision to pull out of institutional sector research as he was involved in setting it up in the mid '70s . |
| 25 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 26 | When you 've got your bandage in your pack , I 've explained to you before , you open it up in the first aid kit it 's sterile , yeah , you open it up by the |
| 27 | That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’ |
| 28 | It was difficult to abandon the RPF precisely because de Gaulle had so compromised himself and his unique prestige by setting it up in the first place , by fighting elections , and by being a politician " like the others " . |
| 29 | Well he brought it up in the first place . |
| 30 | 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 . |