Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Special care was used to avoid RNAse contamination ( baked glassware , solutions made up in water treated with diethylpyrocarbonate ) . |
| 2 | predisposing the Chinese to think of blood as circulating and of the earth as having condensed out of a more fluid state ( hence the fossil sea shells found up in mountains ) . |
| 3 | She could virtually match the data bases of bodies like UCCA for up-to-the-minute information , and she saw earlier than most the new opportunities opening up in Europe for higher education students . |
| 4 | Then Jilly cast off her chadour and sang , a plaintive rendering of ‘ The Winter of Seventy-Nine ’ , and suddenly , as happens on these occasions , the knockabout mood changed , people stopped laughing , tears stood in eyes , as Jilly 's harsh , grating flat voice lamented the year and deplored the future , as her white , beaky , angry face gazed fiercely at the audience , as the confined energy of months swelled up in self-pity around the room , orchestrated by Jilly 's incantation : |
| 5 | During the first few days of the Blitz I had to go to Kings Cross and there I saw whole streams of weary and frightened East Enders pouring through the station , intent only on getting away from the bombing with what bits and pieces of their belongings they had been able to salvage ; with their small children crying and bewildered , and family pets bundled up in rugs or protesting loudly in makeshift cardboard boxes . |
| 6 | Local guidelines drawn up in accordance with Working Together govern the circumstances in which a conference may be convened and who may attend . |
| 7 | When he stopped to look back along the road , he saw two cars draw up in front of his home , one after the other . |
| 8 | Neighbours who were not so well thought of stood and watched at gun-point , while their homes went up in flames . |
| 9 | Three hundred and twenty-five items reported missing by government inspectors turn up in cupboard on site |
| 10 | Drug baron 's limousines go up in smoke |
| 11 | Trudgill 's informants grew up in Norwich at a time when the city was expanding to accommodate many incomers from surrounding localities and from London : the resulting linguistic situation may well have been characterised by diffuse norms which allowed " outsiders " , including those born in Norwich to parents from elsewhere , to " get away with " an imperfect knowledge of the Norwich dialect . |
| 12 | Lewis 's eyes looked up in puzzlement . |
| 13 | Piers looked up in surprise . |
| 14 | Like the exiled Scots sitting up in bed with his cap on in Sidney Royal Infirmary , asked by the retired sister who visited people like him who had no friends how old he was , he says ninety two . |
| 15 | Sadly , that great sight disappeared in 1970 , when the cars lined up in front of the pits at the commencement of the race . |
| 16 | With more and more bodegas setting up in Rioja — there was 62 in 1985 , 140 by 1991 — and with sales either static or declining , there seems little for recession-hit bodega bosses to laugh about . |
| 17 | Poetry is images wrapped up in rhythm . |
| 18 | Later on that week we were talking in the library again and somehow the topic of owls came up in conversation once more . |
| 19 | ‘ The exhibition , ’ she went on will probably revive interest in the period so we grabbed some of the stuff from our theatrical costumes shop up in Clifton and added it to the mixture of period we have here . |
| 20 | At first a natural depression reinforced by earthworks put up in January by the Italian army contained the lava . |
| 21 | Err I think by the way I 've pretty much got all the the areas wrapped up in Scotland if we can just get going and we can get |
| 22 | Although the details have not been disclosed , the Soviet Union played a key role in convincing the East Germans to let refugees holed up in West German embassies leave for the West . |
| 23 | Much of the committee 's and the JMU 's perception of the profession to date has been derived from early visits set up in response to doubts created by registration information and by JMU visits in response to complaints . |
| 24 | The most recent review of quotas set up in March 1987 failed to conclude its review , and as a result the IMF board of governors requested fresh proposals for new quotas by April 1989 ; until that review the level of Fund quotas remained unchanged at SDR89.99 billion . |
| 25 | Yet it remains true that only a tiny fraction of legal matters end up in court . |
| 26 | The sign to fasten seat-belts lit up in front of him . |
| 27 | piano-legs dressed up in knicker-frills — |
| 28 | In an attempt to boost exports , the government increased incentives to companies setting up in export processing zones . |
| 29 | Equally , there would be nothing to prevent private social work companies setting up in opposition to local authority and voluntary agency workers ; private training companies are already emerging . |
| 30 | Treat florist gloxinias as annuals and grow them from seed in spring , or grow from tubers potted up in spring so they are just covered by the compost . |