Example sentences of "was [verb] up in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And before I could resolve the problem I was struggling up in bed , in the pitch blackness , reaching for the shrilling telephone . |
| 2 | ‘ But I was tucked up in bed early — not difficult in Dresden you know , they do n't have West German television down there — oh ! |
| 3 | That evening , when Rachel was tucked up in bed sleeping , the moment came when Fred could contain his suspicions no longer , as Carrie had expected . |
| 4 | Five minutes later she was tucked up in bed , sleeping happily once again , while Jake had retreated to his little ante-room . |
| 5 | When Bodie arrived at the hospital , first thing next morning , Ray Doyle was propped up in bed , looking as chirpy and as mischievous as ever . |
| 6 | Sour milk was hanging up in muslin , to turn into cream cheese . |
| 7 | ‘ Key was hanging up in reception . ’ |
| 8 | A mutiny against the rowing establishment last summer by oarsmen being coached by him was patched up in time for the world championships in Yugoslavia , but at the end of the championships Spracklen declared that he had no future in British rowing . |
| 9 | He is believed to have acted as a kind of broker for that dangerous spy-ring that was broken up in Holland last year . |
| 10 | At the same time , as a director of Lonrho , he was caught up in Sir Edward Heath 's famous description of the company as the ‘ unacceptable face of capitalism ’ . |
| 11 | As assistant manager of powerplant quality , he was caught up in Rolls-Royce 's efforts to penetrate the civil aircraft business with the Merlin . |
| 12 | It was still very cold and everyone was muffled up in coats and scarves and gloves . |
| 13 | She was as at home in jeans , hiking over rough country , as she was curled up in silk lounging pyjamas , reading a book . |
| 14 | ‘ By the time it was picked up in France I 'd had toxoplasmosis in my bloodstream for two months . |
| 15 | Well that gave me a start of course , so immediately I got a warrant out , and he , some while afterwards he was picked up in London . |
| 16 | If a stranger was picked up in Ipswich . |
| 17 | THIS bronze handle ( fig. 6.1 ) was picked up in April 1967 by Mr J. A. Hadman from the surface of a field half a mile to the north-east of Oundle , Northants. , on the east side of the River Nene ( Nat . |
| 18 | But Charles had a nagging feeling that , however Marius Steen was tarted up in death , his corpse would not lie down . |
| 19 | Eddie Gilfoyle replied : ‘ I was fed up in work . ’ |
| 20 | Eddie Gilfoyle replied : ‘ I was fed up in work . ’ |
| 21 | Tilda 's mind was made up in favour of the New World . |
| 22 | Stock chymotrypsin solution ( Sigma ; product code C4129 ) was made up in HCl ( 25mmoldm -3 ) and the concentration adjusted with TES ( 100mM , pH7.8 ) to produce a rate of change of absorbance of 0.025 units min -1 at 405nm and 20°C in a control assay consisting of chymotrypsin ( 7–8μg in 0.6ml ) ; 0.3ml TES ( 100mM , pH7.8 ) ; and 0.3ml of a solution of substrate ( 1.2mM ) in 50% dimethylsulphoxide/TES . |
| 23 | Jabberwocky is a poem that was made up in Wonderland and it describes some of the wonderful creatures to be seen there . |
| 24 | ‘ I had little hope of re-employment , and so it seemed to me that the only thing to do was to set up in business , ’ he explains . |
| 25 | The Queen Regent Luiza of Portugal was so anxious for this alliance that a secret treaty was drawn up in case England 's Parliament did not consider Tangier and Bombay sufficient as Catherine 's dowry , in which Madeira too would have been ceded to England . |
| 26 | As an aside , the need to drawn up a will becomes particularly pressing if there are children to be considered , and do n't forget that marriage revokes the will of either partner , unless that is , it was drawn up in anticipation of the wedding . |
| 27 | In 1976 a constitution was drawn up in Lisbon which designated Madeira an Autonomous Political Region . |
| 28 | An enormous powder blue car , gleaming and new , its plentiful chromium winking in the sunlight , was drawn up in front of the house and against it leaned a man in a white suit . |
| 29 | A single-bar electric fire stood in front of the empty grate and a wing-backed chair , threadbare and with broken springs , was drawn up in front of it . |
| 30 | The next thing he recalled after that was waking up in hospital and this man with bandaged fingers in the next bed rambling on about a duffle-coat and how he 'd been bitten by a wolf . |