Example sentences of "up in [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year Farmer finished runner up in both the 125 and 250 Irish Short Circuit Championships , and had selected outings on Smiley 's 600 Yamaha . |
| 2 | It was very conventional , even old-fashioned , but its tensions built up in just the right way , and it gripped like a strangler 's hand . |
| 3 | I end up in exactly the same spot as if I had first walked four paces due east ( which is one sort of displacement , an easterly sort ) and then three paces due north ( which is another sort of displacement , a northerly sort ) . |
| 4 | like a G they will join up in exactly the same way next time he does it , even to the same letter |
| 5 | If you have n't yet bought a calculator , you will have to look it up in either the old-fashioned log tables used for arithmetic calculations or in simplified ‘ break tables ’ of logarithms ( see Tukey 1977 ) . |
| 6 | The two entries are adjacent to each other in the body of the encyclopedia under S. Obviously , this makes sense in that different readers approaching the synoptic outline from different disciplinary perspectives will both end up in roughly the same place , but it is slightly disturbing to find that while there is a main entry for " Applied linguistics " ( which cross-refers readers to " style " ) , there is no matching entry for " Literature and linguistics " to help the reader coming from a purely literary discipline . |
| 7 | Apart from a small stain on the edge this came up in almost the bright and shiny condition that it appears in the illustration . |
| 8 | This has gone up in virtually the same proportion as the labour cost . |