Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] up in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right because certainly er this this is er wherever you go in the country there are going to be medical practices and schools , golf clubs start to get restr more restricted and estate agents strangely enough still are widely spread up in Scotland here . |
| 2 | Creatures that bestride the dividing line between amphibians and reptiles and between mammals and protomammals , are constantly turning up in the fossil record . |
| 3 | That seems to me to be a very moving description of somebody who is preaching to people , not from any sense of superiority , but rather from a sense of human concern and caring about the people that she is addressing , and this makes the way in which George Eliot writes about her very different from the way in which other methodist preachers have been described either as ranters , erm or as people who are so caught up in what they are saying themselves that the fail to make any pay any attention to the people that they are addressing . |
| 4 | When they are so wrapped up in themselves and their problems , and , they are so hard done by ? |
| 5 | It may prove difficult because individuals may not be able to see the whole of the organisation since they are so wrapped up in their own specialised part of it . |
| 6 | You are so wrapped up in yourself . |
| 7 | Hitherto she had been so tied up in the day-to-day mechanics of the company that she was often forced to consider time for research as a luxury . |
| 8 | She had been so caught up in her memories that she had n't heard him approaching . |
| 9 | He had been so caught up in his thoughts he not heard the T'ang enter . |
| 10 | She 'd been so caught up in her thoughts that the voice near her side came as a shock , but even as she turned she realised the words had n't been aimed at her . |
| 11 | I think they had both been so wrapped up in themselves they had quite forgotten my existence . |
| 12 | The dispositions Vernon made were to become a model on similar occasions in the future and are best summed up in his own words : |
| 13 | To receive the full benefit of the policy , therefore , it must be held to maturity , particularly since the first two years ' premiums are largely taken up in charges . |
| 14 | Maybe you do — you 're so wrapped up in your rotten selfishness that you ca n't see anyone else . ’ |
| 15 | It was like watching a film or a play and you 're totally caught up in what 's going on and you 're taken out of yourself and everything suddenly has colour and meaning and magic and you forget that outside the rain 's tippling down and tomorrow 's homework has n't been done and you 've got to wash the car to pay Dad back for the money you borrowed to come to the film because you were skint till the end of next week . |
| 16 | Day Three : During the early hours whilst you 're still tucked up in your cabin the cruise begins with arrival at Linz , the first port of call , at 9.00am . |
| 17 | You fellows , you 're always locked up in these big houses helping out , how do you ever get to see around this beautiful country of yours ? ’ |
| 18 | Five and six in the morning , and you 're always waking up in the middle of the night cos you do n't know , you know , if summat 's happened or summat 's gon na happen . |
| 19 | Weekends we 're usually booked up in advance , you see , even in the close season . |
| 20 | They 're now sitting up in bed , waiting for their aunt to give them a kiss — and looking like little angels , ’ Julie told her , adding with a grin , ‘ which , of course , they are n't ! ’ |
| 21 | Newspapers , journalists do n't just work office hours , I know they 'd like to but they , they I do n't let them but also a tremendous problem that they that that that you are always tied up in meetings and things during the day , you know , so make sure , try and develop personal contacts so you 've got a decent personal contact when you do n't mind giving your home number to someone . |
| 22 | Psychological experiments of the rats-in-mazes kind are always set up in such a way that , even if the animals concerned had been capable of exercising individual judgement in such a way as to wreck the experiment , this fact would escape detection . |
| 23 | One of the problems of deciding how much of a person 's temperament is inherited is due to the fact that babies are usually brought up in an environment of both parents , or at least more than on individual , and that they take a while to grow and show many personality characteristics . |
| 24 | The federation had been formally set up in Paris on Sept. 22 by leaders of the pro-democracy movement who had fled China , including leading economists Yan Jiaqi and Chen Yizi , and Wan Runnan , head of China 's biggest private company , the Stone Co. [ see also p. 36815 ] . |
| 25 | Journalists are quickly caught up in pursuing the stories they generate , with an invigorating rush of adrenalin . |
| 26 | Perhaps two-thirds of IBM 's income and an estimated 75 per cent of profits are still tied up in this threatened area . |
| 27 | Four years after the collapse of the communist bloc , funds promised to help cleanse the environment of Eastern Europe are still tied up in banks and many aid pledges have evaporated , The European reported . |
| 28 | As waste dumps all over Europe are frantically dug up in the search , other interesting things have come to light . |
| 29 | As adjacent word positions are also looked up in the word look-up tree , they are checked for whether or not they are the appropriate words to complete the compound . |
| 30 | Power circuits on a modern installation are also wired up in one of two ways , as ring or radical circuits . |