Example sentences of "[noun] up in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I make his bed once a week to give it a good puff up in the sheets . |
| 2 | There 's an old clay range up in the woods , and I 've been practising on that . |
| 3 | Farnborough is the highest village in Berkshire , 720 feet up in the downs , and straddles the most beautiful road in that county which leads — without a wire or cable to be seen — through open downland to West Ilsley . |
| 4 | The narrator of Farewells owns a bar in a sleepy village up in the mountains . |
| 5 | Beating up cushions releases the feelings pent up in the shoulders — but such forms of catharsis are sometimes thought to be all right for Californians but not for the rest of us . |
| 6 | He was already into the champagne and mansion bracket up in the hills and very soon began his first famous relationship , setting up home with Joan Collins . |
| 7 | The thunder of it drowned his voice as he yelled at the rodman up in the bows to hold the jib clear of the stays . |
| 8 | In fact the only buildings up in the mountains are the restaurants which many of the marked walks include en route ! |
| 9 | What was a lone scumnik doing up in the habs , acting like some spy ? |
| 10 | The trips include a great party night called ‘ Cova Rava ’ , a BBQ at La Siesta up in the hills , a beach party , Sixties night , ‘ Wet and wild ’ and of course , the hilarious Reps ' Cabaret plus lots more . |
| 11 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
| 12 | ‘ If th'bist hoping for a piece of apple , then th'bist up in the clouds , ’ Jess said — and to Midnight : ‘ This way . ’ |
| 13 | Some farmers live in small houses up in the mountains ( during the summer ) so as they can look after their cows . |
| 14 | If you were n't familiar with them , the roads up in the mountains were treacherous . |
| 15 | Because there there were guns up in the flats . |
| 16 | Luz is a small resort town , these days with its ski extension up in the mountains to the west , at Luz-Ardiden ; Saint-Sauveur is a spa a mile and a half away , in a gorge . |
| 17 | All the game up in the thickets will run away . ’ |
| 18 | Erm I mean obviously you 've got people up in the flats who at times , hit absolute desperate rock-bottom situations . |
| 19 | Well if if you add to those two factors , erm isolation and and loneliness , erm then the consequences can vary I mean certainly there were large numbers or quite a few elderly people up in the flats , who who survived who survived very poorly really . |
| 20 | There was coppa , made from the muscular part of the pig 's neck where it meets the shoulder , and prosciutto , Parma ham , which comes from the same part of the pig as English gammon , and is cured in specially air-cooled rooms up in the foothills of the Apennines above Parma . |
| 21 | ‘ Course , there 's badgers up in the banks but I never heard that name — ’ She broke off . |
| 22 | Most campesinos live between two thousand and four thousand metres up in the mountains , in the harshest land , and still they are exploited . |
| 23 | The day was idyllic , with clear blue skies and temperatures up in the shirt-sleeves . |
| 24 | Both regions are famous for seafood , which we both love , and there appeared to be a reasonable number of airfields dotted about , ranging from little fields up in the mountains to Porto , one of Portugal 's only three Customs airports — the others are Lisbon and Faro . |
| 25 | I had , over the course of the morning , already gulped down about a gallon of teeth-achingly cold stream-water at various points up in the hills , but the traditional Scottish hangover treatment was probably just what I needed . |
| 26 | I got the crow 's cage again and afterwards was sent inside to do the washing up in the Corporals ' eating area . |
| 27 | and no jacking up in the toilets . |
| 28 | The same problem of faith that sees God as too small shows up in the attitudes of those who approached Jesus for help . |
| 29 | ‘ Way up in the hills … ’ |
| 30 | came from quite a wide area way up in the hills Airedale and all that area , at the foot of the Cleveland hills |