Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late one night she forgets to turn off the gas after heating up some left-over mutton vindaloo , and a loud explosion rocks the mansion as Tracey 's beautiful designer kitchen goes up in smoke . |
| 2 | Counting the cost of a fire which has brought his business to a standstill and caused ten years of research to go up in smoke . |
| 3 | As the car drew up in front of the Lodge with a crunch of gravel , Detective Sergeant Allen strode out to meet them . |
| 4 | ‘ You bitch ! ’ he whispered as the car drew up in front of the country house hotel that her father had decided was good enough for the reception to celebrate the wedding of his only daughter to the reigning world champion . |
| 5 | He based his case on the EAT 's decision in Laughton v Bapp Industrial Supplies Ltd [ 1986 ] IRLR 245 , which said that an employee did not breach his duty of loyalty merely by indicating an intention to set up in competition with the employer in the future . |
| 6 | I remember the stale leathery smell of the trains , and sleeping curled up in station waiting rooms in the middle of the night . |
| 7 | When Carl Mathers 's car pulled up in view of the rose garden , just a few golden trails were left on the hard blue , a threadbare tapestry . |
| 8 | I was just about to pay the driver when your car pulled up in front of me and you got out with Domino . ’ |
| 9 | Cairngorm study winds up in failure |
| 10 | I heard a car pull up in front of the apartment and heard the door slam shut . |
| 11 | At the close of unusually emotional debate , Sir Peter Lane , chairman of the National Union Executive Committee , agreed to recommend affiliation to the party of a model Conservative association set up in North Down . |
| 12 | Mother always got annoyed when that story came up in conversation , and I made sure that it frequently did . |
| 13 | So scum are now 13 points ahead , and our 14 match unbeaten run goes up in smoke . |
| 14 | The great lady sits up in bed stark naked , with Sien 's face and torso , and we have no way of knowing why . |
| 15 | And when the sun came up in no-man's-land , it was hot . |
| 16 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |
| 17 | Angel pulled up in horror and a cloud of dust , growled something incomprehensible , but undeniably insulting , threw down the reins , kicked his right foot out of the stirrup and , swinging it over the horse 's withers , jumped to the ground and ran into the house . |
| 18 | ‘ It was a massive bang , the ground shook beneath my feet and debris flew up in air . ’ |
| 19 | However , another case of a child brought up in semi-isolation illustrates how unusual behaviour patterns would seem to be the product of minimal socialisation rather than the result of any inherent deficiency or abnormality . |
| 20 | However , shortly afterwards the first meeting of a newly formed all-party Supreme National Council broke up in disarray after the members had failed to reach agreement on any issue . |
| 21 | The result was all wrong … 6-2 on aggregate to Tranmere but there was a flicker of hope in the flames as United 's cup run went up in smoke … |
| 22 | Aaron Hicklin , in Mostar ( left ) , learns how a beautiful mountain region in Bosnia-Herzegovina is co-existing with war after generations of rural tranquillity Centuries of peace go up in smoke |
| 23 | As the fable continues , it tells of family visits to York and Malham and of how the child grew up in understanding of many things . |
| 24 | One shopkeeper is leaving a window boarded up in protest : |
| 25 | A STREET busker who warbled Des O'Connor songs on his home-made karaoke machine ended up in court . |
| 26 | I picked up a folded-back magazine and began to read a passage pointed up in lime highlighter . |
| 27 | Methyl mercury shows up in hair , and by taking samples at regular intervals he can keep track of it 's level and how they relate to clinical symptoms when and if they appear . |
| 28 | The recession has hit the farming community as hard as anyone — and the last thing farmers want to see is their livelihood going up in smoke . |
| 29 | On the other side of the thick wall , the boiler fired up in response to some secret signal . |
| 30 | Mike 's joke goes up in smoke … |