Example sentences of "up in [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm due to be married next Easter , and my fiancé has just told me he likes dressing up in women 's clothes . |
| 2 | One possible factor in the success of some of these marriages is that quite a few women do seem to get a kick out of seeing men dressed up in women 's clothing , though I do n't know why . |
| 3 | Puritanical Lord Reith was in love with another man throughout most of his adult life , Daphne du Maurier was a lesbian , J Edgar Hoover liked to dress up in women 's clothes . |
| 4 | Rather as I feared they would , babies have started showing up in Tod 's dreams . |
| 5 | John Bartholomew of Putsham , evidently tenant of the Alfoxden home farm , was persuaded that the Wordsworths should take the house for a year , at a rent of only £23 , and on 14 July 1797 an agreement was hastily drawn up in Poole 's ‘ villainous hand-scrawl ’ and signed by Bartholomew and Wordsworth . |
| 6 | Fergie trips up in Victoria 's footsteps |
| 7 | The collective opinion of Middle-earth is summed up in Gandalf 's aphoristic statement : ‘ I am Gandalf , Gandalf the White , but Black is mightier still . ’ |
| 8 | It would have capital resources of 10,000 million ECU ( some US$12,400 million ) , 30 per cent of this to be paid up in members ' subscriptions and the rest being callable capital . |
| 9 | And then she fell down , not knowing anything more until she woke up in Ma 's big bed . |
| 10 | Even allowing for the obligatory cock up in defence = goal . |
| 11 | Beneath the outward appearance of self-assurance and scholarly success , deep-seated psychological tensions were being set up in Nizan 's personality , tensions exacerbated by changes in Nizan 's family and educational situation , tensions that were to lead to a personal crisis . |
| 12 | At this highly critical phase in the unfolding of the Spanish drama , the senseless death of this courageous young woman conjured up in Nizan 's imagination the bitter tragedy of the Spanish cause itself . |
| 13 | Up in Carlisle er s |
| 14 | She was a snob ; Mary Rose knew her mother wanted a lawyer or a doctor , but there was no one she liked as well as the sharp young Irishman who was working his way up in Heraghty 's business . |
| 15 | ‘ Then you 'll have to take it standing up in cook 's enamel bowl . ’ |
| 16 | Since Trudy is unable to answer each of your letters personally , we have set up a special SHE helpline which covers some of the topics that most frequently crop up in Trudy 's postbag . |
| 17 | Rachaela remembered a drawing pinned up in Emma 's flat . |
| 18 | to the factory to keep the factory going for the factory you see was up in Hunton 's field and there were a lot of Stronsay men in it . |
| 19 | Somewhere in all the moves the body contriving to lose its boots which then turned up in Steve 's bag at school . |
| 20 | This one comes from Perrybar up in Birmingham erm coming to form now , so that 's the fourth and final leg of our Radio Oxford yankee . |
| 21 | Bruce Weber 's arty portrait of the now-dead jazzman Chet Baker is hopelessly pretentious — all black and white fashion shots and sun-burst silhouettes — but all this is forgotten as you get caught up in Baker 's sad , pathetic life story . |
| 22 | Jennifer Flay , a New Zealand dealer who recently set up in Paris 's arty Marais district of Paris represented work by a stable comprising Felix Gonzalez-Torres , Liz Larner , Christian Marclay and Matthew McCaslin . |
| 23 | 4 Copy of letter to Giles Askham — we need to let him know where to meet up in Lincoln 's Inn Fields . |
| 24 | ‘ Petty Officer Grant picked this up in Andropulos 's cabin . |
| 25 | In 1945 he made his famous recording ‘ Up in Dodo 's Room ’ with McGhee 's group which , in the judgement of Fats Navarro was the first recorded tenor solo in the bebop idiom . |
| 26 | Do n't remember going to bed , but I must have done because I am sitting up in Nigel 's parents ' bed writing my diary . |
| 27 | Such criticisms are perhaps most clearly and tersely summed up in Hawthorn 's assessment of Hobhouse : |
| 28 | Dressed up in Nibs 's gear , ’ McQuaid said . |
| 29 | I had so much time to look at him I can hardly believe it still , pushing the trolley , standing up in Nibs 's clothes . |
| 30 | This led to a great setback for the Company ; by the early 1680s it seemed to have established itself , and paid its first dividends , at about 50 per cent a year , but it was then caught up in England 's wars against France , the bases were captured , and no regular dividends could be paid until after it had got its property back under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 . |