Example sentences of "up in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rex looked up in no small surprise . |
| 2 | All day I have been seeing pictures of him at his best ; jumbled up in no chronological sequence — Saturday evening tram rides and visits to the Hippodrome with late supper afterwards in Malvern days , earlier days of ‘ where do you want to go to ’ in the study … the ‘ Well , boys this is grand ’ at the beginning of the holiday … his little drop of whiskey : his fund of wheezes . |
| 3 | All the things which I had feared turned up in a relentless progression . |
| 4 | CURL up in a cosy country cottage in one of Britain 's beauty spots and you could be helping preserve the nation 's heritage . |
| 5 | By scrawling with his crook in the dust , the shepherd redirected us and by nightfall we were holed up in a cosy bar . |
| 6 | Playing the exact same solos every night on tour is good too , because the notes are firmly ingrained in your head and that makes it harder for you to mess up in a major way , which is something that could happen if you were winging it every night . |
| 7 | It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group . |
| 8 | Writing in the late 1960s and early 1970s , he argued that advanced capitalist societies were caught up in a major contradiction . |
| 9 | Not even Jane 's tender digestion would keep her from tonight 's dancing , and nor did she have any real fear of meeting her husband , for Jane well knew Sharpe 's reluctance to dance or to dress up in a frippery uniform , but the possibility of his presence was an alarming thought that she could not resist exploring . |
| 10 | And remember I was being brought up in a non-drinking household . |
| 11 | 7 He ends up in a weak position , open to many follow-up techniques . |
| 12 | It only remained to write everything up in a comprehensive report . |
| 13 | Her mother was William Godwin 's second wife , and Clairmont grew up in a free-thinking household with her brother , illegitimate like herself , with Mary Wollstonecraft 's daughter by Godwin — another Mary of Clairmont 's age — and with Fanny , Wollstonecraft 's older illegitimate daughter . |
| 14 | Soon an uneven line of bobbing flashlights were seen approaching through the trees , and then the two cordons met up in a noisy reunion of mutual backslapping and congratulation . |
| 15 | More serious offences such as being drunk and disorderly or damaging property , labelled him as REFRACTORY , and he could then be locked up in a separate room with bread and water for twenty-four hours . |
| 16 | Opposite the town , high up in a sandy ridge , lie the Tombs of the Nobles , ancient Egyptian border officials and governors of Aswan . |
| 17 | He requires covering up in a strongly-run race to utilise his formidable finishing acceleration to maximum effect , and connections have taken the precaution of declaring a pacemaker in Wharf . |
| 18 | Erm now in my wisdom I I thought that obviously considering we 're now classed as incident stewards the o the thing to do was to put the certificates up in a prominent place so that everybody who visited the site knew who were the incident stewards were . |
| 19 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |
| 20 | Initiation rites in magical sects and mystery religions often require the candidate to be shut up in a dark vault for a lengthy period , in order to die and be reborn to himself . |
| 21 | This simply means that instead of bending and scuffling around for saucepans stacked up in a dark base unit , try hanging them from hooks near the sink ( where you are going to fill them with water ) or near the stove . |
| 22 | ‘ Like a dog you keep chained up in a dark room . |
| 23 | Then Charley Bates and the Dodger took away Oliver 's expensive new suit , gave him some old clothes , and locked him up in a dark room . |
| 24 | The one person whom Kate had always seen as constant and good had been shown up in a dark light . |
| 25 | It is not a good idea to keep fountains running in the cold months , because they exert a chilling effect and , of course , the jets in the nozzles will be the first to ice up in a frosty snap . |
| 26 | If Britain is not to end up in a technological cul-de-sac , with a technical solution to managing nuclear waste confronted by massive political opposition , it must tackle a number of problems . |
| 27 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 28 | A naturally placid horse will show signs of nervousness if it is brought up in a rough home , while a naturally nervous horse which has always experienced a sympathetic and secure home will be quite placid . |
| 29 | He was brought up in a rough area of Bradford and he and his mates used to play against the front shop of my old mate and skipper Brian Close . |
| 30 | One of my own patients grew up in a loving family where it was assumed that he would eventually study law — just like his grandfather , his father and his uncle . |