Example sentences of "[pron] up in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us tuck ourselves up in the light and warmth , and hide away from the night . " |
| 2 | ‘ Was n't that where some bakery foreman dressed himself up in a turban , said he was an Eastern potentate , and persuaded half a dozen women to move in with him as his harem ? |
| 3 | When the weather was cold he would wrap himself up in a tabar , a big , black , woollen cloak . |
| 4 | He turned round again and propped himself up in the bed . |
| 5 | He tried to lever himself up in the bed . |
| 6 | For a split second he looked oddly vulnerable , but then he pushed himself up in the bed , her wary eyes lingered on the naked gold of his shoulders , and she quickly changed her mind . |
| 7 | He 's not naturally aggressive — he 's not a friend of John Major 's for nothing — and he 's not nasty enough ; he 's been trying , no doubt psyching himself up in the mirror in the mornings — ‘ I will be beastly to them ! |
| 8 | On Fridays and other fast-days he would lock himself up in the church for many hours . |
| 9 | Detectives believed the armed man must have run inside the hospital and holed himself up in the office . |
| 10 | We 're all prone to do that , were all prone to take the line of least resistance and you find this not just in the truth but in any sort of community in life , in any area of life that wish to go , you , you may find this at work or at school , you youngsters , there 's always a little Johnny at the back is n't it , that , that will fit in the back row and think if I 'm back here teacher wo n't notice you see , were act were actually tuck himself up in the corner and er think well if I 'm , if I 'm up here nobody will notice me and see the day goes by and er we do n't have so much to do , those are the type of people that in , in , in a physical life er sort of going to sleep are n't they , they do n't want to accept responsibility and we , we find even in the truth , you 'll always find it in congregations like we have here in our congregation , we 're not different , we 're all the same are n't we , we 're all flesh and we 're all imperfect and we 're all prone to doing or wanting to do the things that are different or you know than , than what Jehovah wants us to do and we all want to tuck ourselves up a little corner sometimes and yet we should n't be like that and this is what the scriptures tell us and warn us about to put ourselves headlong into the truth , be whole sole , be awake , be alert , be vigilant to the things that are going on and there 's a lot going on in the truth at this particular time , things are changing , the scriptures tell us that the scene of the world is changing and that 's true is n't it ? |
| 11 | When the old publican went off his head and shut himself up in the snug with an ex-War Department Verey pistol , and shot distress signals through the serving hatch at anyone who came near ? ’ |
| 12 | He got himself up in the morning and dressed in the clothes Emmie had put out for him the night before . |
| 13 | The manager had been trying to set himself up in the Business when he knew full well that Clive had the franchise . |
| 14 | In my imagination , I was going to pick you up in a fury of emotion , toss you down on that bed — ’ |
| 15 | " No , we 're busy , I 'll get someone to take you up in a minute . " |
| 16 | I 'll catch you up in a minute or two . ’ |
| 17 | I do n't even know if you have a mother or father , or whether they made you up in a test tube . |
| 18 | ‘ If only I had the means to set you up in a house where I could visit you . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll pick you up in an hour , Ray . |
| 20 | How are we gon na get you up in the air ? |
| 21 | so if you doing that , doing that keep you up in the air , right , keep doing that you 'll go that way , when the helicopter 's you want to do that way , so obviously |
| 22 | What time were you up in the mornings ? |
| 23 | A short bout of exercise has a further role , namely of waking you up in the morning as it turns on the alerting mechanisms of the body . |
| 24 | So what time were you up in the morning then ? |
| 25 | I 'll run you up in the car . |
| 26 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 27 | I pulled the short straw and could not drink as I had the job of getting everyone up in the morning and doing the first two hours driving . |
| 28 | The overlap area is difficult , and it is therefore better to insist on the rigorous separation of the two methodological approaches than to mix them up in a compromise , or to treat one as logically more worthy of respect than the other . |
| 29 | Companies generally take their guests down to Sunsail 's Port Solent base near Portsmouth in the evening , give them dinner and put them up in a hotel . |
| 30 | She wrapped them up in a parcel and took them out to the dustbin . |