Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can see the point he was trying to make — the Pallas ' Sandgrouse only turns up in this country once every 10 or 20 years . |
| 2 | The British Empire and the United States will have to be somewhat mixed up in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage . |
| 3 | Do n't get so caught up in this fantasy that you miss all the opportunities the real world has to offer . |
| 4 | It must be odd , she thought , for a stranger to be suddenly caught up in these life or death struggles . |
| 5 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 6 | If I am daft enough to tackle up in those conditions I usually go to sleep and hope I wake up to a change for the better . |
| 7 | That grievous bodily harm thing was coming up at a special court this morning , but that ought to be all wrapped up in half an hour . |
| 8 | But the Swiss Confederation of all 23 cantons was only set up in 1848 . |
| 9 | He is quick to point out that it 's not just enough to turn up in any of these activities : ‘ You have to prove to the examiners — and to yourself — that you can are willing to put in the effort to improve and better your standards . |
| 10 | Even one daft enough to wake up in early February . |
| 11 | Well she does n't necessarily end up in general practice does she ? |
| 12 | From somewhere they would suddenly turn up in all sorts of fancy gear , funny sorts of knickerbockers and sweatshirts with strange devices thereon , and also funny hats . |
| 13 | Lynda Moss agrees : ‘ 1,1,1-trichloroethane rarely crops up in published syntheses — a heck of a lot of syntheses use methylene chloride [ dichloromethane ] however ’ . |
| 14 | As Reyburn observes : ‘ Of course the necessity to flush ping-pong balls down the toilet rarely crops up in everyday life but the owner of a double-trap ‘ siphonic ’ can take comfort from the fact that she has the toilet for the job when it arises . ’ |
| 15 | In an instant she was aware of every detail of her appearance from the upswept Titian curls , tamed for the meeting that had just broken up in fragmented dissatisfaction among the main body of the directors , to her neat cinnamon gabardine suit and matching high court shoes . |
| 16 | A week out of Moscow across Siberia and five time zones later you somehow land up in landlocked Mongolia . |
| 17 | Strathclyde has made a direct appeal to the Scottish education minister , Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , to change the legislation so that closure programmes are not caught up in lengthy delays . |
| 18 | Local governments are thus not just caught up in recent political conflicts as some innocent or neutral part of the political machine , but are themselves crucial in interpreting and promoting social change . |
| 19 | Sartre 's argument for History as totalization , then , was already caught up in interminable difficulties by the time he was drafting Volume II of the Critique in 1958 . |
| 20 | With the outbreak of war , the activities of the NUWM were suspended , and finally wound up in 1943 . |
| 21 | To summarize the total award is thus made up in this way there are agreed items as shown on the er schedule of the plaintiff 's submissions which come to three hundred and fifty two thousand , five hundred and ninety six pounds , |
| 22 | It is important to notice here that Freud is talking about a part of the ego as being built up from the social and cultural surroundings , but that the whole ego is not built up in this way . |
| 23 | Quite different from the cacophony of patterns and painting styles which characterised his work of a decade ago , they employ greater expanses of pure colour and favour passages of thick impasto laboriously built up in acrylic paints . |
| 24 | The club has criticised the fans for not turning up in bigger numbers to support the club but now they are turning their criticism on the manager . |
| 25 | However , there were indications last night that some Communist deputies may seek to complicate the vote , by not turning up in sufficient numbers , or to delay it , possibly by as much as three weeks , to allow their own party to re-group after its recent humiliations . |
| 26 | They 've already cleaned up in consecutive Hot Press polls , winning the ‘ most promising act ’ category last year , and ‘ best Irish album ’ this year . |
| 27 | Er how are you doing on just going up in hundreds and not two hundreds ? |
| 28 | Having said that , in order to get into production , or even to use it , you ca n't just set up in those days any more than you can today , now you need planning permission to , you need . |
| 29 | If you just place them on the back seat of your car , or they are removed from an arrangement and not packed up in any special way , some of the petals will almost definitely become bruised , which will cause brown lines , patches and spots once the flowers have been pressed . |
| 30 | Students , because their money is not tied up in big items such as mortgages , spend a lot on goods such as jeans , beer and cheap travel , and are therefore a target group . |