Example sentences of "[noun sg] up in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I make his bed once a week to give it a good puff up in the sheets . |
| 2 | putting a fence up in the |
| 3 | I 'll walk home and pick the car up in the morning . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I want to think about it and will probably make my mind up in the next day or two . ’ |
| 5 | Well , make your mind up in the morning . |
| 6 | Then would come tea up in the parlour — winkles , usually , extracted with a pin — as the young visitors gazed around the cluttered but tasteful room with its ubiquitous red plush and velvet and its ruby glass and ornaments with glass-drop clusters . |
| 7 | I 'll put an advert up in the er , er Quicksave and er |
| 8 | I am proposing to ponder the question of Letterman 's script up in the higher altitudes . |
| 9 | I told him that when he came up the ramp he must accelerate on the throttle at speed so that he got the front wheel up in the air , so he would n't nosedive and hurt himself . |
| 10 | There 's an old clay range up in the woods , and I 've been practising on that . |
| 11 | But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year . |
| 12 | The narrator of Farewells owns a bar in a sleepy village up in the mountains . |
| 13 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 14 | Beating up cushions releases the feelings pent up in the shoulders — but such forms of catharsis are sometimes thought to be all right for Californians but not for the rest of us . |
| 15 | getting the child up in the morning ; |
| 16 | He was already into the champagne and mansion bracket up in the hills and very soon began his first famous relationship , setting up home with Joan Collins . |
| 17 | The thunder of it drowned his voice as he yelled at the rodman up in the bows to hold the jib clear of the stays . |
| 18 | But they put the tax up in the budget did n't they ? |
| 19 | Sam took Nutty and her team up in the car straight after the last lesson ; Nails had not been around which was just as well as the car did not hold more than five . |
| 20 | But you who knew me , pass on these words : that I squandered my youth for my country , that while the ship was fighting I kept to my post up in the cross trees and , when she sank-I went down with her . ’ ’ |
| 21 | Eleanor Thorne half-sat up in the great bed , astonished at the freshness , the absolute appeal of her idea . |
| 22 | What , what it 's frustrating for a slow bowler is that if the batsman put his left pad down the wicket and held his bat up in the air , clearly not playing his shot for all to see , then I 'm sure that we , you know , it , the batsman be given out L B W quite frequently , but because the bat is hovering just behind that left pad erm , he 's never given out . |
| 23 | The next morning , after Sir Thomas had been discovered dead , Brampton 's corpse was found swinging from a beam up in the garret . |
| 24 | She was bum up in the air , small head to one side ‘ gnawing her way through Donald 's portion and then on to the rest of the poisoned carcass of the chicken , which Henry added to her plate . |
| 25 | Curtain up in the town hall |
| 26 | Is there a heaven up in the sky and wh why , where do we all go when we die |
| 27 | What was a lone scumnik doing up in the habs , acting like some spy ? |
| 28 | All they ever saw of their guide was a faint distant tail-light , and then only rarely , at irregular moments after long periods of doubt when it seemed that they had lost the scent , made the wrong decision at some unmarked junction up in the stormy darkness . |
| 29 | It must be grown early and erm , and then just erm down , plenty of muck up in the ground , and erm they 'll grow . |
| 30 | and took you to the room up in the tower |