Example sentences of "up in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was almost painful to listen to , and Robert was about to pull his face away from the window when , suddenly , high up in the far darkness , a tiny figure in white robes jumped into vision . |
| 2 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 3 | Yes , you can see when the ball goes off , then you 'll end up in the far corner . |
| 4 | Let us say that , although not trapped in a fight for survival , we are all still caught up in the ordinary competitiveness of business , social gamesmanship , and marriage . |
| 5 | According to IDC , only 3% of workstation kit ended up in the financial sector — which invests more heavily in high-end and on-line transaction processing multi-user Unix systems . |
| 6 | Quite a few wound up in the private labs in Switzerland . |
| 7 | Is that what this is about , that places can continue to spring up in the private sector and we must close our homes in order to meet that demand not from elderly people for places but from the private sector for profits . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , it would be fairer and franker of the SNBTS to mention in its information leaflets and at its collection centres that a donor 's blood might end up in the private sector . |
| 9 | So Cornelius crept off to the bathroom , performed fastidious ablutions , togged up in the vile pyjamas and returned to the bedroom . |
| 10 | A new Validated Courses Section has therefore been set up in the Advanced Courses Unit of the Assessment Department : its initial tasks will be : |
| 11 | He spoke about the need for an ‘ exact ’ theology , and Maritain , with his handbooks on logic , gave the impression of exactitude which most English theologians , brought up in the Hegelian tradition , failed to do . |
| 12 | Will the right hon. Gentleman further explain to my constituent why people who reach that age end up in the appalling position of having all their age allowances clawed back by the Government ? |
| 13 | It will be a generation or two no doubt before this determinedly old-fashioned room acknowledges one of the most remarkable of post-1945 French writers , the critic Roland Barthes , who was the complete Parisian intellectual but was brought up in the Basque country , went to school in Bayonne and all his life kept his house along the Adour , at tire . |
| 14 | The reason why there is so little progress is horribly tangled up in the overall failure of Italy 's public life , a failure which is arousing mounting concern among her EC partners . |
| 15 | As a regular attender of Irish League games could I suggest that the 22,000 who turned up for the United v Villa debacle perhaps try the fare served up in the Irish League which I 've no doubt they would find much more exciting ( unless Bangor and Ards are involved ! ) |
| 16 | The El Nino is a massive surge of warm water that , once every decade or so , builds up in the eastern Pacific along the South American seaboard . |
| 17 | Xanthe stood up in the narrow space between the bed and the door in Miranda 's room , and said , ‘ You look rather ‘ beatnik ’ . |
| 18 | Usually , at this time of year , they stayed out of sight right up in the highest mountain peaks , where the monsoon rains fall as snow . |
| 19 | I have known people to hold a rabbit down with one foot and then , after picking the ferret up in the normal way with their other hand , squeeze the ferret 's foot . |
| 20 | Plugging a Japanese Strat into the high impedance Input 1 socket , the Champ booted up in the Normal channel . |
| 21 | On Friday he played the match of his life to beat the defending champion , Jahangir Khan , in five games , and at 6-0 up in the final game on Saturday he was not far from becoming the first player to beat both Khans in the same tournament . |
| 22 | I hope you will take a look at the document and do whatever you can to ensure its recommendations are taken up in the final version of the regulations . |
| 23 | If they were watching for her , they would n't expect her to travel on the night boat from Liverpool , with a rough sea battering at the B & I ship , while the drunks and the seasick threw up in the smelly lounges . |
| 24 | ( The scampi is dodgy ; later I will throw up in the smelly boat toilet . ) |
| 25 | She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show . |
| 26 | Up in the short-term car-park at Terminal Two , Lewis had to drive from floor to floor before he found a slot in which to put the car . |
| 27 | Layla has now taken to curling up in the cubby hole of the desk to answer these calls . |
| 28 | Other areas of the establishment were infiltrated by fascists , and groups were set up in the Civil Service and in several educational centres and public schools , including the Universities of London and Birmingham , Stowe School , and Winchester , Beaumont and Worksop Colleges . |
| 29 | Although one of the most interesting objects in the sale , it was not considered sufficiently rare — or Bavarian — to be among the items withdrawn from the sale at the instigation of the Bavarian State , which at the time of writing was still negotiating with Fürstin Gloria over what exactly will still come up in the future Regensburg sale . |
| 30 | He would turn up in the Primary School playground and call , ‘ Hi there , Nick ! ’ as if Nick was a boy the same age . |