Example sentences of "up in the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Christmas tree had been set up in the corridor with fairy lights that winked on and off . |
| 2 | The boys lined up in the corridor by the glass office and looked in to see who was up against the rod . |
| 3 | A right wing military Government was set up in the South as a result of the peace conference was convened at Geneva in 1954 . |
| 4 | Miss Young , above , who grew up in the south of France , earned pocket money as an extra in her father 's films . |
| 5 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 6 | ‘ From there I can get a bus to Sligo Town , in County Sligo , up in the north of the province of Connaught . ’ |
| 7 | Up in the north of the range there is the big Grevy 's zebra , with its very fine , narrow stripes . |
| 8 | ‘ After all , I was born and brought up in the north of Scotland . |
| 9 | er met all those criteria and they had one additional benefit , their Leeds ' base er means that er their centre er their own centre of gravity is very near where I C I 's centre of gravity is , up in the north of England . |
| 10 | You mentioned already er over a hundred thousand people have been er displaced by the fighting , and we were able to visit some of these up in the north to , er watch the Cambodian Red Cross hand out some er aid from Oxfam and other agencies . |
| 11 | About half the companies set up in the UK over the last 10 years are no longer with us . |
| 12 | CUSSONS toiletries group Paterson Zochonis reported yesterday that sales of the Imperial Leather brand held up in the UK despite the recession , but the group 's products saw strongest growth overseas . |
| 13 | Both aircraft head-to-head at Farnborough were built in 1944 at the Oklahoma City plant , but beyond that they went very separate ways until meeting up in the UK in September , both toting turboprops . |
| 14 | Dante 's sinners are buried in mud , shut up in the trunks of trees , frozen solid in blocks of ice , crushed beneath stones . |
| 15 | While you 've been living it up in the lap of luxury — ’ |
| 16 | Only children growing up in the lap of luxury |
| 17 | The big bucks are tied up in the options on 500,000 shares of IBM stock he gets to exercise . |
| 18 | Both regions are famous for seafood , which we both love , and there appeared to be a reasonable number of airfields dotted about , ranging from little fields up in the mountains to Porto , one of Portugal 's only three Customs airports — the others are Lisbon and Faro . |
| 19 | Luz is a small resort town , these days with its ski extension up in the mountains to the west , at Luz-Ardiden ; Saint-Sauveur is a spa a mile and a half away , in a gorge . |
| 20 | Ho , cautiously , turned down such a premature example of left-wing adventurism and instead , and as a bridge between the political and military phases of the revolutionary struggle , the first armed propaganda unit was set up in the mountains of Cao Bang — and was to have primarily political duties . |
| 21 | up in the mountains of Mourne . |
| 22 | The three raiding parties laid up in the mountains during the day to observe their targets and descended on to the coastal plain as darkness fell . |
| 23 | He , too , was caught up in the excitement for jazz and with Bobby and other students went down to the Red Barn at Barnehurst , a half-hour run from Charing Cross , to hear George Webb 's Dixielanders , the band that pioneered the New Orleans revival in Britain . |
| 24 | Alongside their traditional functions ( which grow ever harder to explain to a public caught up in the excitement of recent developments ) , they offer a general reassurance against unpleasant surprises ; a brake on events which could otherwise outstrip our power to control them . |
| 25 | There was coppa , made from the muscular part of the pig 's neck where it meets the shoulder , and prosciutto , Parma ham , which comes from the same part of the pig as English gammon , and is cured in specially air-cooled rooms up in the foothills of the Apennines above Parma . |
| 26 | Some people , brought up in the expectation of forging a career and getting near the top if not right to the top in their profession , may be deeply committed to their work . |
| 27 | Theodora got up in the expectation of being dismissed . |
| 28 | Houses run up in the courts of Birmingham in the 1820s and 1830s cost – ; 60 each to build . |
| 29 | The same problem of faith that sees God as too small shows up in the attitudes of those who approached Jesus for help . |
| 30 | Hundreds of metres up in the sky above Ashdale , he was running along the Edge with every last fibre of his body . |