Example sentences of "up in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 2 | Dante 's sinners are buried in mud , shut up in the trunks of trees , frozen solid in blocks of ice , crushed beneath stones . |
| 3 | If you rise up in the stirrups when I say one and sink down at two you 'll find you stay with it . ’ |
| 4 | Swinging the horse 's head to face the massed coolies again , Duclos drew a long solid wood truncheon from a leather saddle scabbard and stood up in the stirrups . |
| 5 | ‘ There was only one sleeping-bag on the plane , rolled up in the blankets , and I 'm not gentleman enough to let you have it to yourself . ’ |
| 6 | The sleeping-bag he rolled up in the blankets and tied with belts so that he could carry it on his back . |
| 7 | The big bucks are tied up in the options on 500,000 shares of IBM stock he gets to exercise . |
| 8 | The narrator of Farewells owns a bar in a sleepy village up in the mountains . |
| 9 | In fact the only buildings up in the mountains are the restaurants which many of the marked walks include en route ! |
| 10 | Most campesinos live between two thousand and four thousand metres up in the mountains , in the harshest land , and still they are exploited . |
| 11 | The three raiding parties laid up in the mountains during the day to observe their targets and descended on to the coastal plain as darkness fell . |
| 12 | Higher up in the mountains is the system of ceques centred on the old Inca capital of Cuzco . |
| 13 | Both regions are famous for seafood , which we both love , and there appeared to be a reasonable number of airfields dotted about , ranging from little fields up in the mountains to Porto , one of Portugal 's only three Customs airports — the others are Lisbon and Faro . |
| 14 | High up in the mountains . |
| 15 | And the effects have rippled down through the years into just about every local music scene in America , from the blues players to the hillbillies up in the mountains . ’ |
| 16 | It seemed everyone was up in the mountains enjoying the glorious weather and the last few days skiing of the year . |
| 17 | Beginning as crashing streams and spectacular waterfalls high up in the mountains , these quickly converge to form raging rivers . |
| 18 | Ho , cautiously , turned down such a premature example of left-wing adventurism and instead , and as a bridge between the political and military phases of the revolutionary struggle , the first armed propaganda unit was set up in the mountains of Cao Bang — and was to have primarily political duties . |
| 19 | I made this ascent on a lowering afternoon that turned thundery , and I stood only momentarily I will admit on the bridge , as the storms brewed noisily up in the mountains all around and the lightning began . |
| 20 | And Sarrance is the setting in which her group of competing story-tellers gather , after they have been driven out of the spa of Cauterets , up in the mountains , by bad weather . |
| 21 | Luz is a small resort town , these days with its ski extension up in the mountains to the west , at Luz-Ardiden ; Saint-Sauveur is a spa a mile and a half away , in a gorge . |
| 22 | It 's rainin' up in the mountains accordin' to that nice immigration laddie . |
| 23 | Things do tend to get out of proportion when you 're shut up in the mountains . |
| 24 | If you were n't familiar with them , the roads up in the mountains were treacherous . |
| 25 | ‘ Up in the mountains , in the High Himalayas , beyond Kashmir , there is a valley called Zanskar . |
| 26 | They could imagine what conditions must be like up in the mountains , having done their stint in the sticks at one time or another . |
| 27 | As we had managed to walk so far the previous day , we were fairly high up in the mountains , and knew that the fog could take as long as 48 hours to clear . |
| 28 | Some farmers live in small houses up in the mountains ( during the summer ) so as they can look after their cows . |
| 29 | And erm we were l we were stuck in the villa , right up in the mountains er , could do nothing but play cards all day and scrabble and erm all these stupid board games . |
| 30 | He was b he was born up in the mountains |