Example sentences of "[vb past] up in [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is what it is all about really ’ , said one of the clowns , handing me a bun just before he dashed across to the pub car park where they all lined up in order to be judged which of them was the best-dressed ( he was , incidentally ) . |
| 2 | On the other side of the thick wall , the boiler fired up in response to some secret signal . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The democratic parties that grew up in opposition to the military rule earlier this century kept the tradition of authoritarianism in their internal structure . |
| 5 | Its role was to boost tourism in the region , but it ended up in debt to just those it was supposed to help . |
| 6 | With some applications though , you may need to change your printer set up in order to be able to use them . |
| 7 | But a CCETSW working party set up in response to the acute shortage of practice placements heard evidence that social workers finishing DipSW courses were having problems finding jobs . |
| 8 | The Qualitas Furnishing Standards Scheme , set up in response to an Office of Fair Trading report in 1990 , was expensive and would need active support if it is to progress . |