Example sentences of "up [adv] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm surprised you did n't set up somewhere in a city , ’ she went on , tearing her glance from his face . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , applications in many organisations have been built up piecemeal in an unorganised , often chaotic way . |
| 3 | Peter , and hundreds like him , represent the ghastly far frontier of American urban degeneration , life and death wrapped up together in a tiny , bright-red jumpsuit . |
| 4 | The adult males have grown up together in a similar pride , left before maturity , and stayed together . |
| 5 | Grandma used to say they were like chalk and cheese , and that they should have been shaken up together in a bag to get more of a mixture . |
| 6 | They 're all messed up together in a bowl . ’ |
| 7 | Wakening the occupants , he told them to get dressed , wrap up warmly in a blanket . |
| 8 | Randy and Merlin Sherwood 's beautiful mother adjusted her mascara in the driving mirror and eyed Rupert Campbell-Black who 'd just rolled up alone in a dark green Ferrari to watch his daughter , Tabitha , play in the first final for the under-fourteens . |
| 9 | Andrex cleaned up yesterday in a survey to find the best remembered TV commercial . |
| 10 | As he walks away , his friend comes up still in a playful mood . |
| 11 | Did I look so obviously the sort to get into trouble that I could n't go about with circles under my eyes , or telephone a doctor , or throw up once in a while , without everyone immediately jumping to a single conclusion ? |
| 12 | He hit the roof when the pair left to set up home in a bedsit . |
| 13 | A bird which was once a common sight along Britains riverbanks has been tempted to set up home in a sanctuary . |
| 14 | Why not just leave — set up home in a more tolerant spiritual pew ? |
| 15 | Le Bon seemed to have in mind here a church congregation , as in the remarks about people being lifted up ethically in a crowd . |
| 16 | it was sore , but would heal up cleanly in a few days . |
| 17 | These had been brought up sharp in a mathematically exact line by one of those old-fashioned razors that the previous generation had employed for more antisocial purposes . |
| 18 | I am brought up sharp in a busy street , |
| 19 | The Pic du Midi has long had an observatory on top , a very substantial structure indeed and occupied since I 88 I , after the scientists who started it had got into the arduous habit of spending their winters up here in a small hotel . |
| 20 | Actually she lights her torch at one of the candles in the church and somebody runs her up here in a car while she holds the torch out of the window . |
| 21 | Most members are very friendly , and there are a lot of us in the ‘ central belt ’ up here in a wide variety of jobs . |
| 22 | No , know what he can do with it you 'll have to hoover up here in a minute Clare , get all this tobacco off , I 'm only joking , girl |
| 23 | Some see it and have sound explanations , like one Magar lady in rural west central Nepal who gave a ten-minute lecture to me on the problems of the transference of fertility from forest to arable land , and changing uses of crop residues with increasing population pressure , that would have stood up well in a graduate seminar . |
| 24 | Diction was often good and the intonation of the choir held up well in a difficult acoustic . |
| 25 | Specialist journals of the ‘ have to have ’ variety , needed by all good universities , are holding up well in an unsympathetic environment , but journals publishers generally are having to market harder to maintain subscriptions . |
| 26 | An if I end up Downtown in a cell |
| 27 | And ol' Powell is sitting up there in a wooden chair strapped down to the deck , yelling instructions and waving with his one arm . ’ |
| 28 | Yeah but I 'm on my way up there in a minute hopefully ! |
| 29 | 6–8 nanny-thin , slightly stale slices of bloomer loaf 2–3 oz raisins , plumped up overnight in a few spoonfuls of brandy butter and whole nutmeg ( or ground allspice ) 4 large eggs and 1 pt half cream 2–3 tbsp demerara sugar or crushed coffee sugar crystals ( optional ) |
| 30 | Cordons , already tight around scores of Ulster towns and cities , were stepped up overnight in a bid to prevent any headline grabbing bombing . |