Example sentences of "up [adv] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , applications in many organisations have been built up piecemeal in an unorganised , often chaotic way . |
| 2 | Peter , and hundreds like him , represent the ghastly far frontier of American urban degeneration , life and death wrapped up together in a tiny , bright-red jumpsuit . |
| 3 | The adult males have grown up together in a similar pride , left before maturity , and stayed together . |
| 4 | Randy and Merlin Sherwood 's beautiful mother adjusted her mascara in the driving mirror and eyed Rupert Campbell-Black who 'd just rolled up alone in a dark green Ferrari to watch his daughter , Tabitha , play in the first final for the under-fourteens . |
| 5 | As he walks away , his friend comes up still in a playful mood . |
| 6 | I am brought up sharp in a busy street , |
| 7 | The Pic du Midi has long had an observatory on top , a very substantial structure indeed and occupied since I 88 I , after the scientists who started it had got into the arduous habit of spending their winters up here in a small hotel . |
| 8 | Most members are very friendly , and there are a lot of us in the ‘ central belt ’ up here in a wide variety of jobs . |
| 9 | Diction was often good and the intonation of the choir held up well in a difficult acoustic . |
| 10 | Specialist journals of the ‘ have to have ’ variety , needed by all good universities , are holding up well in an unsympathetic environment , but journals publishers generally are having to market harder to maintain subscriptions . |
| 11 | And ol' Powell is sitting up there in a wooden chair strapped down to the deck , yelling instructions and waving with his one arm . ’ |
| 12 | Virginia pushed agitated hands through her hair , forgetting it was caught up neatly in a high top-knot . |
| 13 | He turned up again in a small-town truck stop , clean-shaven and with an airman 's jacket showing fleece through rips in the leather . |
| 14 | Killion collapsed , screaming ; the music faltered , stopped , and started up again in a noisy polka . |
| 15 | but crash-landed unhurt and was soon up again in a new aircraft . |
| 16 | Schools and traditions , with their prescriptions about content , method or both , have risen and fallen , sometimes to rise up again in a new guise . |