Example sentences of "[vb base] up in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An children grow up in a flash , |
| 2 | And those that do , grow up in a sub-culture that is a disgrace to England ; unable to read or write , born to crime as a way of life , most of them have never even seen the inside of a church . |
| 3 | Unless children grow up in a family , they are bound to find it hard to share and , until she starts playing with other children 's toys , she may well think that all toys belong to her . |
| 4 | I was concerned to understand what it was like to leave school and grow up in a world with little work . |
| 5 | After a time , all knew that the concourse was not going to turn sour or break up in a fight . |
| 6 | It 'll be up to him whether he throws me to the dogs and I finish up in a debtor 's prison , or whether he turns into a guardian angel complete with halo and big fat cheque . |
| 7 | Pain Teens open up in a cloud of dry ice that fills the stage and eventually leaks out on to the dance floor . |
| 8 | lock up in a village |
| 9 | We are taken through the political and social development of a country which the US regards as its gateway to South America — and we wind up in a situation little different from the past in which an elite group monopolized economic and political power . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ These are not 500 bananas that you pick up in a supermarket and put in your basket and take somewhere else . |
| 11 | It can be uniquely specified with reference to all the categories set up in a description of the form of the language concerned ; it thus represents the intersection of a grammatical item and lexical item . |
| 12 | OsO4 vapour is highly toxic and this manipulation is best undertaken by incubating embryos in small drops of 0504 under oil in plastic Petri dishes ( set up in a fume cupboard ) . |
| 13 | I wanner go up in a pile a smoke an' flames an' eye shadder an' levver shoes an' dancin' an' all that I 'll go like them girls in the magazines Sharon an' you ai n't goin' ter stop me . |
| 14 | The approach of the two men to each other is conducted like a ritual , a crucial moment of which comes when they go up in a plane together for the first time . |
| 15 | Laverne , I just want you to know that business could be seriously affected if my guests end up in a mess , dammit . |
| 16 | After being seen whizzing out of the doors of a rink , he had to skate at speed along a footpath of the common , round a spiral pedestrian walkway , on to a road , grab the back of a passing bus , let go , cut across a main road between cars coming in both directions , go across another road — between the wheels of a moving articulated lorry — and end up in a babywear shop , somersaulting into a cot . |
| 17 | You need to be ‘ with it ’ , because you can never guarantee that you wo n't have a launch failure or end up in a field instead of back where you started . |
| 18 | Visits to hotels or theatres , going on holiday or to restaurants are all difficult things to do on one 's own , and if they are undertaken , people may have to pay more or end up in a corner , marginalized and away from the main clientèle . |
| 19 | Additionally , all manufactured foods — that is , foods which go through a factory process and end up in a packet , tin or bottle — not only lose their vital vitamins , minerals and trace elements in the manufacturing process but also lose much of their colour , flavour and texture . |
| 20 | She 's so damned intent on following in Chrissie 's footsteps … do you want to see her end up in a box , as well ? ’ |
| 21 | Real owners might do the same thing but perhaps end up in a Relais & Chateaux hotel rather than the Place d'Italie . |
| 22 | and then he said something about do us cart one and a half cartwheels and end up in a crab or something , and she come flying across the room at me and I felt this foot go shwoo |
| 23 | Foul up in a chimney and you 'll batter yourself on the walls . |
| 24 | Two men pull up in a jeep . |