Example sentences of "up in an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The body of a young girl — around twelve years old — turned up in an alley in the City . |
| 2 | He picked it up in an hour or two and went on to the guitar . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll pick you up in an hour , Ray . |
| 4 | I said I 'd pick them up in an hour and then drove until I found a pub with a Bar Food sign and a quiet corner . |
| 5 | We could then leave it and say we 'll pick it up in an hour or so |
| 6 | ‘ It will also free taxpayers ’ money from being unnecessarily tied up in an asset which has the prospect of becoming more profitable under privatisation ’ . |
| 7 | She ghosted past me , and curled up in an armchair . |
| 8 | Where children do not carry these assumptions inside them , it is because they have been brought up in an enclave that is struggling against the weight of secular pressure . |
| 9 | In July 1914 air travel was still a novelty to many people and during an outing by employees of an Accrington firm of billiard table makers to Blackpool , a deaf employee named Jack Hargreaves became possibly the first deaf man ever to go up in an aeroplane when he went up as a passenger in a two-seater Fokkers biplane piloted by a Mr. H. Blackburn . |
| 10 | What if that got tangled up in an aeroplane passing ? |
| 11 | These same men use one set of laws to cancel the effects of another , for example , the application of the law of aerodynamics , enables them to cancel the effect of the law of gravity , that 's why you can go up in an aeroplane . |
| 12 | She could n't believe that anyone as nice as Angelica could have been mixed up in an insurance swindle . |
| 13 | Angelica had just mentioned that Steve was mixed up in an insurance swindle , and she was afraid that was why he had missed the train . |
| 14 | For a subject search , the words of the user 's search were looked up in an index containing words from title-like fields and subject headings , and from corporate names . |
| 15 | ‘ We are your friends ! ’ she cried , her small white face screwed up in an expression of bewilderment . |
| 16 | By now the sounds of his waking hours were familiar to the boy curled up in an army greatcoat in the room below . |
| 17 | Her ankle boots she had picked up in an army surplus store , and were the most comfortable she had ever possessed . |
| 18 | Adopted by his commanding officer , he ends up in an élite training school for Hitler Youth , barking Sieg Heil along with the rest of them . |
| 19 | The dark eyes fired up in an instant . |
| 20 | I was wrapped up in an officer 's uniform ; you could n't see me for fur and leather . |
| 21 | No doubt the Virgin Isles will crop up in an Airtours ' brochure before long . |
| 22 | The eyebrows go up in an arch that would make a complete circle if they carried on down , the lids over those eyes , likened to a cobra 's by Candice Bergen , narrow to a slit ; the gleaming white teeth flash through the pursed lips in what Vogue editor Diana Vreeland called a ‘ killer smile ’ . |
| 23 | we 'll show you now how to put on a pressure bandage for severe bleeding and then we 'll put the film on and you can see the whole lot again , okay , so just be in the room if you just push and push and push on the window and er the hand has gone through the window , right , and there 's no glass imbedded but it 's cut right across the palm and the reason that we show you this one is because the artery that feeds all these fingers comes and the thumb comes up in an arch like that okay , so the artery comes down , up in an arch across the palm of the hand , so the fingers and thumb all get a blood supply , so when you cut the palm of your hand there is a lot of blood pumping out , okay , so what 's the first thing I 'd tell her to do ? |
| 24 | we 'll show you now how to put on a pressure bandage for severe bleeding and then we 'll put the film on and you can see the whole lot again , okay , so just be in the room if you just push and push and push on the window and er the hand has gone through the window , right , and there 's no glass imbedded but it 's cut right across the palm and the reason that we show you this one is because the artery that feeds all these fingers comes and the thumb comes up in an arch like that okay , so the artery comes down , up in an arch across the palm of the hand , so the fingers and thumb all get a blood supply , so when you cut the palm of your hand there is a lot of blood pumping out , okay , so what 's the first thing I 'd tell her to do ? |
| 25 | You 'd probably have ended up in an asylum . ’ |
| 26 | There was this scene right at the end where the woman lights a cigarette after she 's left the gas on the cooker on and everything goes up in an explosion ; and then in the very next advert there was a car driving through a field , and the whole field went up in a sheet of flame . |
| 27 | She tried to pull away , but as she moved her head it brought her closer to his mouth , and when his lips touched hers she was lost , caught up in an explosion triggered by his touch . |
| 28 | The Russians courteously declined , saying they could n't get mixed up in an issue that did n't concern them . |
| 29 | Similarly , there is likely to be a direct relationship between the level of real national income and the rate of inflation — as the equilibrium level of national income approaches the ‘ full employment ’ level of national income , so inflationary pressure is likely to build up in an economy . |
| 30 | The baby had been taken away immediately and wired up in an incubator for three days . |