Example sentences of "[noun pl] up in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've just got to get our heads up in the second half of the season and go all out to qualify for Europe again . ’ |
| 2 | Villa had their tails up in the second half and Atkinson and Staunton both had chances to increase their lead . |
| 3 | He had a finger in several pies as well ( which Moroccan has n't ? ) but he also had a dream — of doing something with visitors up in the unknown peaks above Taroudant . |
| 4 | This 17th-century farmhouse and watermill is situated 1,100 feet up in the beautiful and rugged mountain countryside of the Snowdonia National Park . |
| 5 | Tom put the blacks up in the front room , crashed around in the darkness and lit the gas and oil lamps . |
| 6 | The 29-year-old Blaydon Harrier lines up in the international women 's road mile with Dorovskikh , the Ukranian who took the 3,000 metres title ahead of Yvonne Murray in Tokyo last summer and also finished second in the 1500 metres . |
| 7 | I 've actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted he 'd he 'd got he 'd got the odd notes just up there in the corner . |
| 8 | It is just past midnight and many of the cadets from Old College are guarding well-concealed patrol bases in remote valleys and woods up in the Welsh hills near Sennybridge . |
| 9 | In practice , the photographic process is usually much more complicated and involves separate runs with the red , green and blue separation positives ; that is , a minimum of six , to be multiplied in turn by the number of mattes ( if several rather than one are involved figures up in the thirties are not uncommon ) In practice also , matte lines may mark the joins too visibly . |
| 10 | Hereford wrapped things up in the second half . |
| 11 | In their defence , Oxford did pick things up in the second half , Druce did all the running , Walker placed the header , but Salmon was n't going to let the match slip through his fingers . |
| 12 | Yes , but er I think that erm , before we champion er , or back er people like Mr Yeltsin and say that they rep represent progressive forces , I 'd like to be clear about where those forces see themselves going , because I do n't see nationalism as a progressive force in the er , in the last decade of the twentieth century , I think we need to be concentrating on those people who are trying to build a new international order rather than splitting things up in the Soviet Union in a way which may be catastrophic . |
| 13 | Especially built to haul heavily loaded trains up in the 1 in 29 bank to Walsingham , 2-6-0 and 0–6–2 No. 3 ‘ Norfolk Hero ’ poses at Wells after day 's work on May 6 . |
| 14 | Bro Cernyw Aelwyd has over the years won in almost all sections of the Urdd 's activities , from Eisteddfod competitions to darts , pool , five-a-side football and twice runners up in the national quiz competition . |
| 15 | But manager Derek Brownbill explained : ‘ We rolled our sleeves up in the second half and showed a lot of character . |
| 16 | As the water piles up in the western Pacific , it then becomes both warmer and more dilute . |
| 17 | The Palestinian guerrillas would squat behind their outposts of earth and rocks up in the cold air among the fir trees , cradling their rocket-propelled grenades and announcing to us that the Syrians would not be permitted to move one more metre — not one more inch — along the highway to Beirut . |