Example sentences of "up in a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men and women who are now in their forties and fifties grew up in a society that had been first shocked , then revolutionized by the ‘ revelations ’ of American sex researcher Alfred Kinsey . |
| 2 | When it fails to rise to the occasion , I no longer get rattled and threaten to chop it off with a pair of barber 's scissors , tie it up in a sack and drop it down a deep , dark well . |
| 3 | ‘ Poke ’ is an Anglo-Saxon word for ‘ sack ’ , and a ‘ pig in a poke ’ was a suckling pig taken to market tied up in a sack and sold that way , sight unseen . |
| 4 | we 've got a busload here sir , they 'll probably turn up in a cab and ask you to pay for it |
| 5 | She puts it up in a bun and things like that . |
| 6 | Long years later , he ended up in a workhouse and it was from that vantage point that he ‘ launched his attack upon the world of letters . ’ |
| 7 | Anyway it ended up in a fight and he started pushing me around and went to punch me in the stomach but I managed to stop him . |
| 8 | And those that do , grow up in a sub-culture that is a disgrace to England ; unable to read or write , born to crime as a way of life , most of them have never even seen the inside of a church . |
| 9 | I 'll catch you up in a minute or two . ’ |
| 10 | I 'll come up in a minute and bring you a cup of tea . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll tell you what , ’ he said , ‘ you can have it for £60 as that 's the last size 10 I 've got , and I 've got to pack up in a minute and it 's raining . |
| 12 | Dear God , they 'll pick their things up in a minute and leave me on my tod with that Peaseblossom . |
| 13 | She flared up in a fury and we parted for life again … |
| 14 | THE lamb market is being swept up in a revolution that by happy chance will undermine attempts by supermarkets to wrap it in their boa constrictor grip . |
| 15 | The latter was set up in a tent and foregrounded five white bigots beating a black man in the glare of automobile headlights . |
| 16 | Mandy was telling us , you know , about one of her friends she erm her husband was very high up in a company and he went to work one day and they called him in the office and says right , you ai n't got a job ! |
| 17 | On this occasion I wrapped myself up in a blanket and went to sleep in a ditch . |
| 18 | There was a girl at work who said she loved the rain — she would dress up in a mac and goloshes and tramp around in the rain just for pleasure . |
| 19 | I wanted to wear my hair up in a knot but Elise said you 'd prefer it loose like this . ’ |
| 20 | The CO took his time as if savouring a titbit of information certain to delight its recipient , ‘ As you know , camp breaks up in a day or two . ’ |
| 21 | They 'll probably pick him up in a day or two . |
| 22 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 23 | The horse is kept locked up in a stable until it is time to be exhibited for the potential buyer or judge — or mare owner if the horse is a stallion standing at stud . |
| 24 | This may not seem important , but small irritations can build up in a Home and become real barriers to good communication . |
| 25 | Old lag Charlie Cowden , who has a serious heart condition , feared 73-year-old Rosie Hiscock would end up in a home if he died . |
| 26 | In another experiment , Sissons ( 1970 ) arranged for an actor to dress up in a suit and bowler hat and stand on Paddington station , periodically asking people the way to Hyde Park . |
| 27 | but you see with him you see , they , it was packed , the house before the wake was packed , because Margaret kept coming over when he was all dressed up in a suit and everything , I did n't , she asked me if , once to go , I just said no I would prefer to remember |
| 28 | However , her face lit up in a smile when she heard his voice . |
| 29 | But it 's difficult to remember things like that when you 've been brought up in a village and you 're used to chatting to everyone you meet . |
| 30 | A. L. Smith , chairman of the Adult Education Committee at the Ministry of Reconstruction , also warned : ‘ If industrial moral and social side must be taken up in a way that had hardly been experimented upon as yet … |