Example sentences of "[verb] up under the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( He thinks you 've cracked up under the strain — ask him about his geraniums . ) |
| 2 | The late arrival had necessitated her getting out of bed and throwing on a voluminous dressing-robe in order to prepare suitable accommodation — on a night such as this , moreover , when all a body wanted was to curl up under the quilt and hide from the horrors outside . |
| 3 | This concrete path is cracking up under the strain of thousands of paws padding over it . |
| 4 | A skill he has obviously picked up under the guidance of Dalglish . |
| 5 | he 'd go upstairs and Shirley would have put all the clean clothes back in the wardrobe and he 'd go in the wardrobe oh , no I wo n't wear that , no I wo n't wear that and half the time she found the cleanest clothes were all rolled up under the bed . |
| 6 | Section 221 provides that an unregistered company may be wound up under the Act . |
| 7 | This meant that steering the boat was made particularly difficult , with the Atlantic swell surging up under the quarter and sending the ketch careering down ever larger mountains of water . |
| 8 | Having grown up under the nose of the Israeli war machine , young Palestinians have come to the conclusion that , in the world they inhabit , might is right and the only way to survive and flourish is to be strong and violent . |
| 9 | Keep a packet of pitta bread in the freezer , heat up under the grill from frozen and cut into fingers . |
| 10 | These arrangements are part of a wide ranging package of service s standards drawn up under the campaign banner of a commitment to customers . |
| 11 | The Convention was drawn up under the aegis of the Pompidou Group [ see pp. 37394 ; 35127 ] and would enter into force once ratified by three signatories . |
| 12 | Er , er , a man who grows up under the shadow of his father , as it were . |
| 13 | It was not easy to grow up under the shadow is over whelming father as he lashed Iran into a nation , Like almost everyone else in Iran , the Crown Prince was very much afraid of him . |
| 14 | Then I sow one of my colleagues die from a heart attack and two others crack up under the strain . |
| 15 | It involves putting make up UNDER the skin , using a special probe . |
| 16 | He had hoped to find him attempting to dress but he was still propped up under the shower , hands against the wall . |
| 17 | If it rains , do you think that doll will be able to sit up under the hood of the pram ? |
| 18 | With the tent flap closed , the heat had been building up under the canvas . |
| 19 | Calero mentioned that the American revolutionaries too had front companies like those set up under the Enterprise , established in Europe to take in money from France and Spain . |
| 20 | This disclosure requirement , in turn , made possible a recommendation in June 1990 by the Innovation Advisory Board ( set up under the aegis of the Department of Trade and Industry ) that a ‘ UK R&D scoreboard by sectors and companies ’ should be drawn up . |
| 21 | Some were housewives who had been called up under the call up for women of forty-five to fifty . |
| 22 | I was perking up under the influence of what seemed like half a ton of protein . |
| 23 | They slithered about on a plastic mattress cover , bunching up under the boy every time he moved . |
| 24 | The Crown Prosecution Service will ‘ continue the fight ’ to get at least limited rights of audience in the Crown Court for its lawyers once the new advisory committee for legal education and conduct is set up under the Government 's White Paper plans for the legal profession , Fiona King , a recruitment specialist at the service said yesterday . |
| 25 | ( The six-county state of Northern Ireland had been set up under the Government of Ireland Act , 1920 ) . |
| 26 | The organization was set up under the influence of the Salvadorean Communist Party , but accepted members who were not affiliated . |
| 27 | The Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct was set up under the Act to examine the practical way in which reform could be carried out . |
| 28 | In 1970 the Committee on Safety of Medicines was set up under the Act and began work in the following year … with the purpose of ‘ a. giving advice with respect to safety , quality and efficacy in relation to human use of any substance or article ( not being an instrument apparatus or appliance ) to which any provision of the Act is applicable and b. promoting the collection and investigation of information relating to adverse reaction for the purpose of enabling such advice to be given . ’ |
| 29 | It was confirmed last night that Mr Lynch will work with Mr Bleasdale to plan the structure , budgets and contracts required for the ScotRail operating franchise — one of the first due to be set up under the privatisation plans . |
| 30 | Its London frontbenchers work as a team , backed by a campaign committee which was set up under the chairmanship of the shadow Commons leader , Jack Cunningham , after bad local-election results in London a year ago — and which produced the London manifesto . |