Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] up in [noun sg] " 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 | 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 : |
| 3 | Lewis 's eyes looked up in puzzlement . |
| 4 | Piers looked up in surprise . |
| 5 | Poetry is images wrapped up in rhythm . |
| 6 | Later on that week we were talking in the library again and somehow the topic of owls came up in conversation once more . |
| 7 | The sign to fasten seat-belts lit up in front of him . |
| 8 | In a compliance system , in contrast , there is much less concern for proving a violation took place ; indeed widespread reliance on strict liability would make the question of proof relatively straightforward if matters ended up in court . |
| 9 | Throughout the Prussian east a wide range of specifically Polish cultural organisations sprang up in response to this pressure : the Slav Literary Society ( 1836 ) , the Wroclaw Flute Choral Society ( 1890 ) , the Sokoł Physical Culture Society ( 1894 ) , and the Association of Polish Boy Scouts in Germany ( 1912 ) . |
| 10 | Packages tied up in string |
| 11 | Then the Christians stood up in front of their barricade and put their arms round each other 's shoulders . |
| 12 | They had their manifesto — 20 pages of it , what Beatrix Potter might have called ‘ appropriate moral sentiments wrapped up in paper ’ . |
| 13 | The future lay with minds of a different type — minds which saw that government was a matter of administration , and not an attempt to reproduce on earth a pattern of things laid up in Heaven . |
| 14 | While the rhythm of the dancers speeded up in pleasure at their revival , he told them : |
| 15 | It was one of those Made-in-the-Fifties horrors bought up in bulk by the television studios to show in the early hours of the morning to night-workers and insomniacs like Preston , and it pandered to all his worst fears and fantasies about the London underground . |
| 16 | The next moment all the rabbits leapt up in panic . |
| 17 | However , come 10.30am the advisers turned up in force , 45 of them including the Committee 's own Stella Whitbourn advising on social work . |
| 18 | Thus Aquinas , who stood in a long tradition which came to him through the teachings of the early canonists summed up in Gratian 's Decretum ( 1140 ) , was clear that every state had both the right and the duty to defend itself , its legitimate existence , and its rights when these could be legally proved ( ‘ It is legitimate to oppose force with force ’ , as Justinian 's Digest put it ) . |
| 19 | His black brows shot up in disbelief . |
| 20 | The complete narrative proposed by this group is as follows , with letters retained for ease of reference , but with the gaps between the sentences closed up in order to render the sequence 'story-like " . |
| 21 | The protestors turned up in force to confront the man , but he 'd already been and gone . |
| 22 | Her hands flew up in horror then slammed down on the steering wheel . |
| 23 | Two or three of the cykes blew up in sympathy . |
| 24 | The clouds rose up in front of God 's throne . |
| 25 | Dexter pressed his nose against the grid of cold metal but all he could make out in the shadowy interior was a counter and the shimmer of clothes hung up in plastic bags . |
| 26 | Both women looked up in surprise when the sharp ring of a bell from the gate announced the arrival of Madame Delon . |
| 27 | The others looked up in alarm . |
| 28 | The others looked up in surprise . |
| 29 | His bushy eyebrows shot up in recognition . |
| 30 | Hell was being without God , I thought , but I said nothing , just stared instead at the white wash of cabin light on the rushing water , and I wondered why some people could take cocaine and just walk away from it , while others ended up in hell , or in a peep-show which was probably the same thing . |