Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] up in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was I you , I 'd stay tucked up in bed . |
| 2 | The faint sound of his cello , as I lay tucked up in bed , is woven into my childhood memories . |
| 3 | After all , it had n't really been her fault that she became mixed up in Jack 's business affairs . |
| 4 | Gabriel reached out a hand , meaning to touch the man 's shoulder : his fingers got caught up in Garvey 's ear . |
| 5 | What happened instead was that Milton got caught up in politics and when the Civil War began he devoted his energy to pamphleteering . |
| 6 | But instead of returning to the trees and swinging happily ever after , the orangs got caught up in web of conservation politics . |
| 7 | The committee was becoming caught up in issues that did not fall within its remit . |
| 8 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 9 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 10 | The Berlin Philharmonic , founded in 1882 , has grown up in tandem with the evolution of the star conductor . |
| 11 | Where soil is being removed slowly it may be that it has built up in layers and a ‘ case hardening ’ effect is experienced . |
| 12 | As traffic congestion has built up in town centres , so new development centres have sprung up on the urban fringe and in the open countryside , where car-based access is , at least initially , easier . |
| 13 | Tension has built up in Libya because of a refusal by their Government to surrender two nationals suspected of the Lockerbie bombing . |
| 14 | ‘ The right type of facilities need to be built in the area before companies can be attracted to set up in business . |
| 15 | unc Notice that each figure in the number has moved up in value one place to the left . |
| 16 | ‘ The girl , Louise Taylor , has turned up in Pushkin . |
| 17 | A man who went missing on Tuesday has turned up in Cornwall . |
| 18 | He has turned up in Australia , has n't he ? ’ |
| 19 | It has turned up in Canberra with Japan to develop Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation ( APEC ) and a new 12-nation organisation which will mimic the role of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Europe . |
| 20 | Livewire helps young people aged 16–25 who want to set up in business . |
| 21 | The source of rising neo-fascism , which in countries such as France has now deeply infected the political mainstream , is the contradiction that has opened up in Europe between democratic aspirations and its economic policy . |
| 22 | UK , Dudley-based open systems outfit , Largotim Holdings Ltd , has opened up in Ireland following the acquisition of Irish firm , Radiant Ltd , formerly part of Radius plc : Largotim says its next move will be into Eastern Europe . |
| 23 | San Diego , California-based Cobol house , Acubol Inc , has opened up in Italy — Acucobol Italia srl is located in Piacenza — and is headed-up by David Stockdale and Maurizio Girometti . |
| 24 | Kikuko Toyama , the gallery 's director , said Mr Ikeda has opened up in New York to acquaint American collectors with the work of contemporary Japanese artists . |
| 25 | UK Cambridge-based CADcentre has opened up in Frankfurt , Germany : Richard Longdon takes the reigns there . |
| 26 | David Bowie , one of the last rock musicians to mean anything , is in the thrall of smack and depression and has holed up in Berlin to brood . |
| 27 | Since the fifties , a Caribbean , largely Jamaican , community has sprung up in Britain . |
| 28 | The row over Landsat equipment comes on top of a dispute over a ground station that China has set up in Peking , with American help , for receiving data from US and Japanese meteorological satellites . |
| 29 | In fact , during my first few months , I have not been able to identify any major differences between the procedures that the Institute has set up in response to the Companies Act and those that I would expect from an ‘ external ’ regulator . |
| 30 | Is it not the case that although the wage increases of British workers have come down the benefits of that have been dissipated , and that due to the recession induced by the Government productivity has gone down although it has gone up in Germany and as a result unit labour costs in the year to the second quarter of 1991 went up by 3 per cent . |