Example sentences of "up in [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth followed her into the hallway and was immediately aware of disorder ; open packing-cases and an assortment of clothes and furniture piled up in every inch of space . |
| 2 | The more accomplished players gain additional encouragement from their membership of , and loyalty to , one of the many music centres which have sprung up in every part of the country . |
| 3 | Throughout the Ancient Near East seven was a sacred number , and it turned up in every area of Israel 's worship . |
| 4 | Aziz and Hasan were caught up in a maze of stout shoes , Sherley 's extendable dog-leads and sniffing , quivering red setters , corgis , Jack Russells , Old English Sheepdogs and pugs . |
| 5 | Polar Star is no exception ; its lovely clueless opening soon snarls up in a mess of motives and half-finished characters . |
| 6 | His look deepened and the corners of his well-defined mouth turned up in a half-smile of mystery . |
| 7 | From time to time , her eyes screwed up in a spasm of misery . |
| 8 | He and Helga sat at the back of the class , groping each other up in a flurry of smirks and giggles . |
| 9 | Sweeping into Battersea Park , the anti-lock brakes show to advantage as the car pulls up in a flurry of leaves . |
| 10 | The fire brigade van pulled up in a flurry of flashing lights and the crew were there immediately assessing the job . |
| 11 | Her father 's face screwed up in a mask of hatred . |
| 12 | With the remaining doubters now likely to join the majority , Mrs Thatcher seems certain to end up in a minority of one in opposing the conference . |
| 13 | Thrown on or crumpled up in a bucket of it . |
| 14 | It can be uniquely specified with reference to all the categories set up in a description of the form of the language concerned ; it thus represents the intersection of a grammatical item and lexical item . |
| 15 | Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear . |
| 16 | Her fingers dug deep into his shoulders as she clung to him , caught up in a maelstrom of sensation , too stunned by the sheer beauty of it all to register more than the most fleeting second of pain . |
| 17 | The sense of his living in a closed world , stylistically speaking , is beautifully conveyed when Falstaff , frustrated in his attempts to get a simple answer to a simple question , wanting to know his ‘ happy news ’ , is forced to move up to Pistol 's manner : — an effect not unlike that if W. C. Fields had turned up in a performance of Mourning Becomes Electra ! |
| 18 | There seems to be a lot of anger locked up in a sense of competition that he apparently directs first and foremost against himself ; and it is clear that his endless tampering with his swing must have at least as much to do with mind-control as with bodily mechanics — either that , or Faldo has a very perverse and forgetful body indeed . |
| 19 | She sat up in a kind of horror , her feelings filling her up with shame . |
| 20 | There was this scene right at the end where the woman lights a cigarette after she 's left the gas on the cooker on and everything goes up in an explosion ; and then in the very next advert there was a car driving through a field , and the whole field went up in a sheet of flame . |
| 21 | It is like in a story such as the ballet Giselle when Alberic goes to her tomb and is caught up in a vision of her . |
| 22 | In my imagination , I was going to pick you up in a fury of emotion , toss you down on that bed — ’ |
| 23 | I travel on an Irish passport and in going through Immigration was looked up in a register of , I presume , suspects . |
| 24 | ‘ Speaking generally , ’ Bray wrote in Boy Labour and Apprenticeship ( 1911 ) , ‘ the city-bred youth is growing up in a state of unrestrained liberty ’ , and describing how ‘ the habits of school and home are rapidly sloughed off in the new life of irresponsible freedom ’ he agreed that ‘ the large amount of money he has to spend on himself is by no means an unmixed benefit ’ . |
| 25 | Suppose , however , that God decided that the universe should finish up in a state of high order but that it did n't matter what state it started in . |
| 26 | The bucket went up in a geyser of flame , yellow and blue and white . |
| 27 | It was almost as if , after years of stolidly predictable behaviour , an old and respected great-uncle had declared himself to be a Buddhist or a Muslim or the follower of some obscure Eastern mystic , and , instead of keeping it to himself , insisted on dressing up in a variety of different-coloured kaftans and talking to people loudly about The Meaning of Life at drinks parties . |
| 28 | I did n't reply because all at once we were caught up in a crush of people who seemed to erupt from nowhere , running , pushing against each other . |
| 29 | Made up in a bouquet of floral-design remnants , they are secured at the corners with a bow . |
| 30 | In those circumstances , vitamin and mineral deficiencies do not crop up in a couple of weeks . |