Example sentences of "up [adv] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I have it , whether it 's anything to do with my aristocratic ancestors or the fact that I was brought up properly in the old-fashioned way to respect integrity and honesty and decency . |
| 2 | Ninny , played with strength and softness by Jessica Tandy — tells her new pal a tale of two girls who grew up together in the racist Deep South of the Thirties . |
| 3 | The waiters ' spoons dig up down up down in the great trifle on the world-famous dessert trolley . |
| 4 | Those who visit the church in late spring and early summer will be entranced by the swifts who have set up home in the upper reaches of the building and wheel about the place , filling the area with their raucous but comforting squealing . |
| 5 | This change shows up directly in the uneven spacing of Figure 2 , and corresponds to a change in shape of the nucleus from a sphere to a prolate spheroid , or ‘ rugby ball ’ shape . |
| 6 | They have a high pH level , rich in shell-sand lime , and are shallow , warming up quickly in the early months of the season . |
| 7 | Hari felt the impulse to ruffle William 's hair but she knew he would resent being treated like the child he was , boys grew up quickly in the harsh realities of World 's End . |
| 8 | The first to open is ‘ Zwanenburg Bronze ’ , whose bronze-streaked yellow flowers open up wide in the low shafts of February sunshine . |
| 9 | He would crop up repeatedly in the anxious preoccupation with the demoralising influence of popular amusements , the collapse of ‘ fair play ’ sportsmanship , and the allegations of excessive ‘ freedom ’ and ‘ affluence ’ that were levelled against the young . |
| 10 | It grew up originally in the Southern middle-class suburb of Dalkey , County Dublin , and around the Church of Ireland national school there . |
| 11 | Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore . |
| 12 | They found Googol tied up securely in the Emerald Suite with a leather hood over his head . |
| 13 | Sam said , ‘ Morning , ’ but Camille glanced at him haughtily and looked away : she considered that she had no time for the working classes , although her mother 's best friend had been brought up here in the olden days before the supermarkets and the middle class had come to compete for space . |
| 14 | In May , it opened a new petrol station in Hungary , to add to the 15 set up there in the early 1970s . |
| 15 | There were too many mirrors in the house : long , thin ones in polished mahogany frames , round ones , oval ones , and the gigantic mirror up there in the dark studio . |
| 16 | And while they were up there in the wide , blue yonder , they jabbered non-stop to each other over the radio . |
| 17 | Dot knew there must be people up there in the vulnerable places on the top floor because on their way through the draughty corridors they passed the lift-shafts , each with its rattling metal cage and fearful loops of cable and black rope dangling beneath like greasy snakes . |
| 18 | How are things up there in the Big Apple ? ’ |
| 19 | And as the soldier lit up there in the open ground , and twilight faded around them , someone started playing ‘ Roses of Picardy ’ on a mouth organ . |
| 20 | She had an obscure feeling that other passers-by would not notice the bell up there in the shadowy interior of the bell chamber . |
| 21 | It was not necessarily a kindly mood — the number of types of crimes that carried the death penalty went up steadily in the early eighteenth century — but it was practical rather than cruel . |
| 22 | The H3 building had been put up hastily in the early 1950s to get the scientists out of their first accommodation that had been little more than Nissen huts . |
| 23 | Chancellor Norman Lamont is about to announce a further cut in base rates , but most people fear they are just as likely to go up again in the New Year , according to a new survey . |
| 24 | And there was a move to set it up again in the late Sixties , but that got sat on . |
| 25 | Trotsky 's analysis of the bureaucracy in the Soviet Union will be taken up again in the following chapter when the issue of the ‘ new class , is considered . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , and would n't it be good to get a structure and … maybe costume , a few props anyway and learn the poems off by heart , not read them , nose buried in a book , dropping them out your looseleaf onto the floor , scrabbling around picking them up again in the wrong order . ’ |