Example sentences of "[adj] up in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was high up in a tree , its back part and hind legs caught in a fork of two branches .
2 Mandy was telling us , you know , about one of her friends she erm her husband was very high up in a company and he went to work one day and they called him in the office and says right , you ai n't got a job !
3 The red light that shines out from high up in the nave roofing indicates the position of a True Nail held in a glass reliquary at the centre of a crucifix .
4 The window of the charge room was high up in the wall , but through it Wycliffe could distinctly hear the strident voice of a woman teacher talking to her class .
5 He was high up in the syndicate , which tied him in to Truro Daine .
6 They must have been high up in the tree , leaves .
7 Er , but I mean clearly the , the debt and the guarantees are paid down first and so for the reason we are high up in the pecking order , because we provided the er , the loans and the guarantees .
8 what they are doing you see , an authorized dealer , well even a non-authorized dealer get hold of a piece of kit and then somebody say want this system , right okay , and they just have a big load of forms for maintenance agreements and all they do the dealer 'll go along and put this kit in , B T 'll come along and say yeah that conforms to regulations , sign here , the customer er sign here , the dealer send the maintenance agreement to us , we signed it , send it back , we 've never even seen it , then we turn up and find that the main control unit 's high up in the attic or in a damp cellar , in a cupboard where you ca n't see it , there 's no light and stuff like that and we 're taking jobs on like that and it you know , it 's just impossible to work on them
9 He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years
10 Jesuit leaders said , however , that those on trial had been " scapegoats " and that the search had to continue for those high up in the military who had masterminded the operation .
11 I 've got some up in the suitcase which I can use but Oh I , I 'll have a look .
12 Development technician Dave said : ‘ At the moment the proposals are very much up in the air but we are hoping to plan mixed weekend trips which both groups would enjoy . ’
13 It 's very much up in the air about the continuation of these classes .
14 The land-based multi-warhead er missiles is a real issue that has to be tackled , er and they may either go for , this is very much up in the air , go for er distinct cuts in er Start one , or they may talk about limitations and then go for a Start two treaty .
15 You mentioned already er over a hundred thousand people have been er displaced by the fighting , and we were able to visit some of these up in the north to , er watch the Cambodian Red Cross hand out some er aid from Oxfam and other agencies .
16 I 've just spent six months in Cottonvale and I mean its degrading , I mean cos your locked up in a cell from eight o'clock at night till six o'clock in the morning and your not got any toilet facilities you 've got to use a potty if you want to go to the toilet and it is degrading , I mean there 's people in there , well I was a first offender the first time I was in , but I mean there 's people in there seventeen year old that have n't a clue about life in general and it is degrading for them .
17 I shall zip that up in a minute .
18 And I erm , just picked that up in a garage some place , thought it was such a cool , I just really liked the picture .
19 Right good and you should always check that before you draw it just in case your pie chart comes out and put , put that up in the air a bit I 'll just show you that , those are good there , but up in the air like that
20 We have to give that up in the quantum world .
21 Erm the triplets had soup and stottie and I warmed that up in the microwave .
22 Me and reckon that up in the canteen .
23 Geordie humour sums that up in the phrase , ’ The English divvent want we and the Scots winna have we . ’
24 We 've got some soup so we thought well we can make some of that up in the morning then we could just warm it up for the dinners
25 Who put that up in the paper ?
26 our defence is among the best in world ( 3 goals conceded in 8 world cup qualifiers so far ) and our midfield ( 5 players ) is also quite good — a good blend of techies — Bohinen and Mykland has to be two of the best ever technical players to emerge from norw. futba , Flo is ‘ quite ’ good up in the air , Halle is stable as is Rekdal who also got a powerful shot ( as shown on Wembley : - ) ) .
27 Of course , dustproof bags , cases for machines , and strong plastic covers for papers and boxes of computer disks can be a great help , but above all , keep a constant check on all your materials and if you are away from your house for a long time , lock them all up in a metal trunk or barrel and ask a local friend to check your house for termites from time to time .
28 Tiles were the ro making the tiles was a major operation because erm when they first tried to make the tiles they tried they dug a hole big hole at Rawcliffe and they they tried to make forty thousand tiles , line them all up in the pit and they brought something like forty tonnes of dry wood chippings from the erm saw mills in er forest but they could n't quite get it hot enough so the whole lot had to be thrown away do again .
29 EMI A & R boss Nick Gatfield could shed little light on the situation : ‘ It 's all up in the air at the moment , we are not sure what is going to happen .
30 I do n't have to look too far back in there when we started this whole process , four or five years of throwing it all up in the air to say that I felt every pupil could comment in some way , something that they had enjoyed , something they felt they 'd been successful at , something they felt they found difficult , something that had pleased them , surely every child could comment on wo , if it 's just one of those things
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