Example sentences of "up in the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The El Nino is a massive surge of warm water that , once every decade or so , builds up in the eastern Pacific along the South American seaboard . |
| 2 | Although one of the most interesting objects in the sale , it was not considered sufficiently rare — or Bavarian — to be among the items withdrawn from the sale at the instigation of the Bavarian State , which at the time of writing was still negotiating with Fürstin Gloria over what exactly will still come up in the future Regensburg sale . |
| 3 | Andy Thomson and John Price , who between them have dominated the indoor season , move outdoors today when they line up in the five-day Mazda International Singles Championship on Australia 's Gold Coast . |
| 4 | My dad , who , as I have already told you , was a docker by trade , never seemed to take that much interest in any of us and though he could sometimes earn as much as a pound a week , the money always seemed to end up in the Black Bull , where it was spent on pint after pint of ale , and gambled away on games of cribbage or dominoes in the company of our next-door neighbour , Bert Shorrocks , a man who never seemed to speak , just grunt . |
| 5 | This literally causes water to pile up in the western Pacific : a veritable hill of water . |
| 6 | As the water piles up in the western Pacific , it then becomes both warmer and more dilute . |
| 7 | So it seems that the weakening of the trade winds allowed more surface water normally piled up in the western Pacific to flow back eastwards across the ocean . |
| 8 | The son of a Scottish father who deserted the family home at an early age and a Jewish mother , McLaren was brought up in the middle-class London suburb of Edgware . |
| 9 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 10 | Similarly , right up in the Canadian Rockies , the Mississippian Rundle Limestone forms an impressive escarpment , for example above the town of Banff in Alberta ( plate 1.10 ) . |
| 11 | It should be noted , however , that an alternative hypothesis has been suggested for the formation of the Straits of Dover by Stamp ( 1927 ) , who thought that they were due to the southwards overflow of a proglacial lake ponded up in the southern North Sea by an ice front stretching from England to Holland . |
| 12 | Equally , seven Yorkshire clubs will line up in the 1992–93 Pilkington Cup competition , two as Yorkshire qualifiers , three as National Division Three qualifiers and two as National Division Two qualifiers not competing in the Yorkshire Cup . |
| 13 | BRITISH girls ' golf is this week moving into Europe , with as many as 22 players teeing up in the French Lady Juniors ' championship , which starts today at St-Nom-La-Breteche , near Paris . |
| 14 | 16,000ft up in the Bolivian Andes the miners of the Cerro Rico chew coca leaves , they 're preparing for another day in the tin mines . |
| 15 | The benefits became clearer as companies , like the multinational Philips , fired their workers and contracted work out , often to the hundreds of small outfits that had sprung up in the surrounding Lima shanty towns of Villa El Salvador , Comas , or Independencia . |
| 16 | As a youngster , growing up in the declining Lanarkshire coalfields , he trained at a local Junior ground wearing his father 's pit boots , trying to add strength and shape to his diminutive body . |
| 17 | When he arrived in Bristol he was put up in the old Bright 's ( temperance ) Hotel at the rear of the present Dingle 's store . |