Example sentences of "up in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The colours wo n't be seen again and they may end up in a museum . ’ |
| 2 | At issue is whether a foreign country can identify and successfully demand the repatriation of antiquities that it admits it did not even know existed until they turned up in a museum 's collection . |
| 3 | Jan had one problem with an actress who was due to throw up in a scene . |
| 4 | Aziz and Hasan were caught up in a maze of stout shoes , Sherley 's extendable dog-leads and sniffing , quivering red setters , corgis , Jack Russells , Old English Sheepdogs and pugs . |
| 5 | Polar Star is no exception ; its lovely clueless opening soon snarls up in a mess of motives and half-finished characters . |
| 6 | Laverne , I just want you to know that business could be seriously affected if my guests end up in a mess , dammit . |
| 7 | We have ended up in a mess . |
| 8 | You had to use this sort of thing like find it up in a mess has n't it ? |
| 9 | Whinges about the black market for centre-court tickets are as much a part of the Wimbledon tennis championships as thunderstorms are — but this year 's new rules mean that any tout reselling tickets at Wimbledon next month could end up in a magistrate 's court . |
| 10 | His look deepened and the corners of his well-defined mouth turned up in a half-smile of mystery . |
| 11 | Kinnock grew up in a society in which it was natural to be Labour and which Labour controlled . |
| 12 | Jobs apart , looking young and sexy may still seem important and desirable to many of those who have grown up in a society which lays such emphasis on youth and sex . |
| 13 | Men and women who are now in their forties and fifties grew up in a society that had been first shocked , then revolutionized by the ‘ revelations ’ of American sex researcher Alfred Kinsey . |
| 14 | If you grew up in a society which is strange to me , I have first of all to acknowledge that its customary approvals and condemnations are as spontaneous in you as are your more personal reactions . |
| 15 | It was not that this could be attributed to a weakening of moral fibre on their part , but rather that they had grown up in a society in which there were few straightforward moral guidelines , and into ‘ a community which is thoroughly confused about morals , and … their behaviour reflects that confusion ’ . |
| 16 | But most readers of this book will have grown up in a society in which the major comparable distinction is between kin and non-kin , and in which it is assumed , or even insisted upon , that kin relationships ought not to enter into the non-kin sphere at all . |
| 17 | No heroes or heroines from TV ever entered my world , for I was brought up in a society that banned television . |
| 18 | I mean we all live in a society where people wear clothes and we 'd probably feel a bit ashamed if we did n't have to wear any , but if you grew up in a society where nobody wears clothes , you would n't , would n't bother about it for one moment . |
| 19 | The general theme was that Walter could muddle through with Mum and Dad , but because they died , he ended up in a horror show . |
| 20 | From time to time , her eyes screwed up in a spasm of misery . |
| 21 | Wirral was portrayed as being a community in a state of shock caught up in a problem for which it had no explanations or obvious solution . |
| 22 | there 's rugby at Stow on the wold on Sunday … teague … hastings … andrew … skinner lots of big names lining up in a charity celebrity match they land by helicopter at lunchtime … |
| 23 | He and Helga sat at the back of the class , groping each other up in a flurry of smirks and giggles . |
| 24 | He knew they would be hurrying behind him , might even have heard his running steps on the path or noted , practised woodsmen as they were , the scatter of wood-pigeons that went up in a flurry ahead of him . |
| 25 | Sweeping into Battersea Park , the anti-lock brakes show to advantage as the car pulls up in a flurry of leaves . |
| 26 | The fire brigade van pulled up in a flurry of flashing lights and the crew were there immediately assessing the job . |
| 27 | The old office boy , Alistair soon saw , was curled up in a sleeping-bag under a work table in the outer room . |
| 28 | ‘ I doubt if His Grace would ever stand up in a court-room to give evidence on my behalf , but I counted on Magistrate Peck being afraid to put it to the test . ’ |
| 29 | Penelope arrived muffled up in a duffel coat and with her hair wild and untidy . |
| 30 | When it fails to rise to the occasion , I no longer get rattled and threaten to chop it off with a pair of barber 's scissors , tie it up in a sack and drop it down a deep , dark well . |