Example sentences of "[verb] up in the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But to suggest that coincidentally this recording , made just a fortnight earlier , was also picked up in the same way does stretch one 's credibility . ’ |
| 2 | It is bad enough having the sufferer saying one thing but really meaning another without the counsellor getting caught up in the same macabre " game " . |
| 3 | They had grown up in the same house since they were babies and were virtually inseparable . |
| 4 | Fei was not a native of the community that he studied ( the village of Kaihsienkung , in the Yangtze Delta , about 1 25 miles south-west of Shanghai ) , but he had grown up in the same district so that he was familiar with the nuances of the local dialect . |
| 5 | Scientists have known for some time that fusion reactions between nuclei of deuterium and tritium are more likely if the nuclear spins line up in the same direction . |
| 6 | Larger units of measurements in the metric system , are built up in the same way as the number system , based again on tens and tenths . |
| 7 | He remembers his lonely school days , in assured manner that his son will not grow up in the same way . |
| 8 | A cartridge pleat heading is made up in the same way as pinch pleats ( page 22 ) , but the bases of the small tubes ( pleats ) are not pinched up but left rounded by filling with a soft stuffing such as wadding . |
| 9 | And secondly , and very much wrapped up in the same point with this , they 're also coy about the sort of people they 're looking for . |
| 10 | There are easy comparisons : both have kids growing up in the same neighbourhood . |
| 11 | ‘ And land up in the same condition as you did ? |
| 12 | And after closing the door , she still stood and repeated to herself , ‘ Land up in the same way as you did . ’ |
| 13 | He has asked for much the same amount of money , divided up in the same way : two-thirds of the money to criminal-enforcement efforts , one-third to treatment . |
| 14 | Once the interlining has been locked in , the two layers of fabric can be treated as one and made up in the same way . |
| 15 | We are all used to thinking of the Earth as some kind of large magnet , with two magnetic poles located quite near the geographic North and South Poles , so that the needle of a compass always lines up in the same direction . |
| 16 | The Group 's responsibility for site-specific geophysical surveys brings with it the parallel responsibility for databasing the considerable archive of material from surveys of this kind made over the 40 years since the Geophysics Department was set up in the former Geological Survey of Great Britain . |
| 17 | The problem is that although the typeface may have the same name — indeed it may even come from the same original — it may not have been coded up in the same way . |
| 18 | ( Freud is writing in the first decade of the twentieth century , about men and women in the middle- and upper-middle-class Austria who would have been brought up in the latter part of the nineteenth century . ) |
| 19 | The next generation which is taking over the reins of industry is a generation who were not brought up in the same milieu that I was brought up in . |
| 20 | But even between children brought up in the same home with the same advantages , one with another , at 7 there are still huge differences . |
| 21 | Anyway , as you know , we were almost brought up in the same bassinet , and , as I made out to Mama just a short while ago , if Isobel had to choose between the horse and me , the horse would come out best . ’ |
| 22 | The people were not necessarily born and brought up in the same neighbourhood ; many are upwardly mobile ( unlike the inner-city people ) . |
| 23 | Er children are n't brought up in the same maternal way as they are in in this country , and many other countries . |
| 24 | However , the effect of experience on temperament is still limited by the horse 's genetic traits — for example , if both the naturally placid horse and the naturally nervous horse were brought up in the same rough environment , then the placid horse would still be less timid than the nervous one . |
| 25 | We did not go up in the same lift , but were taken to another one , apparently for the use of directors only . |
| 26 | WC apps : 8 The Belgians tend to be ignored until they suddenly turn up in the latter stages of major tournaments — the final of the 1980 European Championship and the semi-finals of the last World Cup . |
| 27 | The bees are significantly more likely to bite half sisters than full sisters , even though all the bees grew up in the same hive ( Nature , vol 302 , p 147 ) . |
| 28 | We grew up in the same turnin' , yer see . |
| 29 | ‘ He and I grew up in the same town . |
| 30 | ‘ I grew up in the same street as Alex Maskey , ’ said Mr Blair who also knew SF 's Paddy McManus many years ago . |