Example sentences of "[adv] up in the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 of course until December so at least still very much up in the air , but certainly the estimates of the current year are produced of highly
2 De Vere Green was already up in the seat of the converted Sno-cat that they used as a tractor , its caterpillar track ideal for use in the harsh Dartmoor winters .
3 Her nephew , Tim , was Miss Miggs 's only relative , and he lived a long way away up in the North .
4 The matter is still up in the air , and congress plans to hold hearing in May on whether EPA manipulated data about 1080 to justify reappraisal of the ban .
5 However , things are apparently still up in the air and OEMs are expected to gang up on the doorstep to get their two cents in .
6 The suggestion is still up in the air .
7 ANDRE Agassi 's first tournament appearance for two months was still up in the air last night even though he officially withdrew from next week 's grass court event in Halle .
8 lie down with his head sideways on the floor and his bottom still up in the air .
9 Do n't worry if your knees are way up in the air .
10 In Malesia , they seem to have made use of the limestone caves for shelter and may well have forced the orang-utans of the region to live further up in the canopy , for it is certainly true that in the Pleistocene , the orang-utans were much more terrestrial in habit .
11 ‘ You wo n't believe it , but my dear mother-in-law has shoved me permanently up in the attic with the children , and we 're expected to stay up there all the time .
12 My own plans are still totally up in the air , except that I am sure to resume my work when the new season gets underway — and then I am just going to make music wherever I am offered the best conditions for it .
13 Well he chips it properly up in the air , but it 's like no power there so it just hit the roof and like Nicky just put it forward .
14 It sounded as if it was somewhere up in the farm buildings .
15 We 'll keep the blue flag flying high right up in the sky we 'll keep the blue flat flying high .
16 ‘ It put me right up in the mood again , I 'd forgotten about that sort of intensity .
17 I went right up in the air .
18 ‘ No , ’ Donna said decidedly , holding one leg straight up in the air and looking at it critically .
19 It went neither forwards nor backwards but straight up in the air .
20 As he turned , the leg was straight up in the air , a position I 'd only ever seen Springsteen get into voluntarily .
21 straight up in the lift to my bedroom and it was lovely you know , yeah in the hot , in the swimming pa pool
22 This takes place mainly up in the forest canopy , and so is almost impossible to film from the ground .
23 She heard again that faint cold calling , like gulls far up in the sky — half a sound , half a shiver over the skin .
24 Moreover , for foraging humans , tropical rain forests are too food-poor , although such foods are available to other primates , because they are too far up in the canopy , deep in the ground or the human gut is not capable of digesting them .
25 By Lancaster Road standards , the Ryans had gone too far up in the world , making them aliens .
26 When A&R men talk of , ‘ compromising in little bits ’ taken to its extreme , it often means more choruses , fewer verses and the vocals and drums well up in the mix .
27 as if at a prearranged signal a chant began high up in the gallery : ‘ Fascism means Murder !
28 No-one knows how long it has been there , high up in the courtyard of the Palazzo Segni Masetti , which now belongs largely to the Associazione Commercianti .
29 It 's these peasants , the Ayllu people living high up in the west of the country that Oxfam is trying to help .
30 Forster said to Elizabeth — for he also was on that cruise and later they ate their hardboiled eggs together , sitting high up in the theatre at Delphi , ‘ on the prompt side ’ .
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