Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] up in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some camera systems do n't make a clean cut when you do this : the picture rolls or breaks up in some way . |
| 2 | You may replant in the old containers or pot up in individual pots for replanting later . |
| 3 | This easement does not by any means apply to all developers and is in any case temporary : setting off the charge against the claims in this way will not be possible when the fund has been distributed and the money has been spent or locked up in some investment . |
| 4 | I like to sprinkle them over miniature salads and , mixed with fromage frais , either stuffed into small peaches or rolled up in smoked salmon with a tarragon aspic . |
| 5 | There 's no way I 'd need a tattoo or dress up in some surgical appliance to give folks a good night out ’ |
| 6 | Having photographed these averagely attractive , effectively anonymous members nestled amongst feathers , emerging from a bunch of Iris buds , tucked up with a wad of £10 notes , or wrapped up in black fishnet material , the stage is ostensibly set for the viewer to compare these peculiar juxtapositions with those more commonly seen in the media where the female body is used instead . |
| 7 | Previously they used corn-cob husks and bits of walnut shell to remove the carbon dust and oil that build up in large motors and cause them to short circuit . |
| 8 | I shall suggest that caught up in those practices are in fact two different answers to this central question , each with its own implications for support work and criteria for evaluation , with the result that support teachers often feel themselves pulled in two directions at once . |
| 9 | The only form of giving that shows up in formal accounts is cash . |
| 10 | Most disliked are dangerous chemicals , whether brought in openly or like the 41 barrels of dioxin waste , a legacy of the 1976 explosion at Hoffmann-La Roche 's Seveso plant , that turned up in 1983 in a Paris abattoir having passed through umpteen subcontractors on the way . |
| 11 | It has already lasted longer than the one two years ago , a tribute to the organisational powers of the independent miners ' union , which unites the various strike committees that sprang up in 1989 . |
| 12 | Then is love some luxury that sprang up in peaceful times , like quilt-making ? |
| 13 | Although set up in 1974 in response to outcries about huge increases in domestic rates , it never came near to recommending their abolition or even their substantial replacement with another tax . |
| 14 | The scattered waves starting at the unit cell that end up in fractional-order beam positions can be ordered into two groups . |
| 15 | ‘ At least the town escaped a 1970s style concrete flat roofed monstrosity of the type that went up in other town centres throughout the country , ’ she said . |
| 16 | These developments are , quite naturally , producing fears in government circles that alliances are no more than cartels designed to restrain competition , albeit dressed up in new and more attractive clothes . |
| 17 | ‘ Let the Council clear it up , ’ he said , and doubled up in silent mirth at the thought of flouting authority . |
| 18 | These blinds not only offer a practical window treatment for kitchens and bathrooms , but can also look attractive in a sitting-room or bedroom when combined with curtains and made up in co-ordinated or matching fabric . |
| 19 | They had both animals ready and saddled up in half an hour , which was as well , because five minutes later , on the stroke of half past seven , Lord Deverill himself arrived , accompanied by four couples of hounds . |
| 20 | The light-weight rock froth itself is quite familiar , and turns up in British bathrooms ; it is , of course , pumice . |
| 21 | It trembled on the cold stairs and rose up in invisible clouds from the thread-bare carpets . |
| 22 | ‘ If you try to tell someone one night he went to bed in one county and woke up in another and he was no longer a Yorkshireman , he gets more than a bit upset . ’ |
| 23 | I had hardly time to see that a car had been driven up to a shop window and was now rapidly reversing out of it when two young men wearing stocking-masks and bundled up in thick clothing , making them unidentifiable , came rushing into the street , each swinging a bag of loot . |
| 24 | The jewel was almost in his grasp ; almost about to be displayed and photographed and written up in all the right journals : a jewel he himself had traced , and one he 'd worked so hard to get donated to the Ashmolean . |
| 25 | And add up in hundreds now . |
| 26 | Since the investment made in companies owning fishing vessels flying the flag of a member state by nationals of another member state was direct investment and paid up in full , the condition requiring 75 per cent . |
| 27 | Having seen its share of contracts with the ministry dwindle to ‘ practically zero ’ in 1987 , Mr De Benedetti says Olivetti capitulated and paid up in 1988 . |
| 28 | Thanks to television … the nation had an armchair view of the violence : uprooted telegraph poles , rolling down the hill towards the police cordon ; a workmen 's hut dragged into the road and going up in petrol-fed flames ; a lone policeman with his truncheon repeatedly laying into a recumbent miner ; the wall of riot shields parting like the Red Sea as groups of police , in black one-piece suits and NATO helmets , dashed into the crowded pickets while a senior officer , with loud-hailer , encouraged them to ‘ take prisoners ’ . |
| 29 | In our movie a brute of a German called Otto is killed ( sort of accidentally ) and ends up in two suitcases . |
| 30 | The trendy York paving has disappeared from streets in Manchester and turned up in conservation areas in the South where it is in short supply . |