Example sentences of "up [pos pn] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made camp that night in a clearing in the woods , and I put up my tent in what appeared to be a large sandpit , in the vague hope that perhaps the mozzies might not like it . |
| 2 | I gather up my shirt in silence and start down the ladder . |
| 3 | And then you see I gave up my home in Liverpool and came to Anglesey to my people . |
| 4 | I 've built up my career in an area where women are not generally accepted , and just being seen as your girlfriend is going to lose me a lot of respect ! ’ |
| 5 | I decided to keep up my flat in London and find fairly basic lodgings locally . |
| 6 | " I 've given up my lodging in Leeds , as well . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's obviously a big step up from the Northern League to the Third Division , so I 'm building up my fitness in the reserves . |
| 8 | I 've thought it over very carefully and you know I do n't make up my mind in a hurry . ’ |
| 9 | Certainly when I was setting up my studio in the country , the nice thing was that we did n't do anything standard ; we did n't take anything for granted , whether it was mics , positions of drums or anything . |
| 10 | I may have to give up my job in order to finish it . ’ |
| 11 | It was a big step to take , but there was no way I could contemplate settling down to bring up my family in London , and I knew my wife felt the same way as she loved the sea and country . |
| 12 | Confound it , who am I to hold up my nose in such a fashion ? |
| 13 | ‘ That wo n't help , ’ a voice said gently as the back door slowly opened , and she flung up her head in shock . |
| 14 | She might have pinned up her hair in her sleep , it was so untidy . |
| 15 | ‘ Good weekend ? ’ he asked as she hung up her jacket in the narrow passageway outside her office . |
| 16 | After graduating , she taught briefly in Dalkeith before taking up her lectureship in Bari . |
| 17 | She has taken to roller skates to speed up her travel in New York . |
| 18 | Miss Harker was n't just baffled , she was incensed that this chit of a girl should dare to make a fool of her in front of the whole class , but she managed to smother up her rage in tones of exasperated concern . |
| 19 | Despite her discovery of the simpler B pattern , Franklin 's attention was at first directed to the more crystalline A form ; but by March 1953 she had carried the quantitive analysis of the B form patterns to the point where the paths of the backbone chains were determined , and she wrote up her work in a typescript dated 17 March — one day before news of the Watson and Crick structure reached King 's . |
| 20 | Having suffered a breakdown , she gave up her job in 1907 and spent some time in Sussex . |
| 21 | Following her engagement in January , Miss Owada gave up her career in the foreign ministry , acquired a new and frumpy wardrobe , and suffered 50 hours of tuition in Shinto ritual and the traditional poetry that members of the Japanese royal family are supposed to write . |
| 22 | Cindy Gallop has given up her career in theatre marketing and gone into advertising . |
| 23 | So she would have to she was to given up her career in acting , she may have to take a view and give up singing totally for a while . |
| 24 | ‘ What 's that got to do with it , ’ she had said , screwing up her face in concentration . |
| 25 | Christina screwed up her face in distaste . |
| 26 | Robyn screwed up her face in exaggerated recollection and tried to remember . |
| 27 | Iris screwed up her face in amusement and disbelief . |
| 28 | Celia screwed up her face in an effort to think back . |
| 29 | This sprang from the arrest of a middle-aged black woman , Rosa Parks , who had refused to give up her seat in the section the bus reserved for whites . |
| 30 | In so doing , however , the party lost its leader , Janine Haines , who gave up her seat in the Senate in an unsuccessful attempt to win a seat in the House of Representatives ( in which the party had no members ) . |