Example sentences of "up in a [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My only real previous acting experience was when I was working for Walt Disney Productions and had to visit sick children in hospital dressed up in a Pluto costume . |
| 2 | A chap can be supervising a spiffing archaeological dig on the Eastern fringes of the Soviet Union one day , only to find himself banged up in a Moscow jail on highly dubious spying charges the next . |
| 3 | An acrimonious argument and clash of personalities flared up between the BMC and MLTB , which ended up in a London arbitration court that suggested a formula for reconciliation , Lord Hunt reported on the way forward : a key element being that the BMC should retain and foster its influence and activity in the training sphere . |
| 4 | In the case of Repton light-middleweight Leon Young , there was no encouraging influence at all as he was brought up in a Dr Barnardo 's home in Barkingside . |
| 5 | stake in National Power or PowerGen to bring pressure to bear on those companies to reduce the development of gas-fired stations , they might end up in a United Kingdom court for breaking United Kingdom company law . |
| 6 | we were close when I was in Washington , and whichever way you slice it he wo n't want my brother being buggered or beaten up in a New York jail . ’ |
| 7 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
| 8 | Kidderminster , Redditch , Blackpole and Worcester joined together to make their book donations and presented 32 books to eight local schools , all loaded up in a JS trolley . |
| 9 | Then we were picked up in a BBC limo to go and review the papers on Breakfast Time . |
| 10 | He grew up in a San Jose barrio called Sal si Puedes ( get out if you can ) ; Mexican-Americans were treated as faceless serfs . |
| 11 | Like the ‘ Mef if they 'd been brought up in a Yorkshire pit village instead of some jessified ‘ forest ’ , but with scurrilous standing in for the keyboards , ‘ V ’ are an untutored Stooges. that 's the Three Stooges , mind . |
| 12 | Born in 1945 , Sutton was brought up in a Nissen hut , the son of a mechanic and a hairdresser . |
| 13 | Once upon a time , long before fatwas and ayatollahs , the daughter of a shazdeh , or prince , grew up in a Tehran harem . |