Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] up in the " in BNC.
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1 | I am curled up in the armchair , flicking through a book . |
2 | Does this mean that as I am going up in the lift , I see it expanding ? ’ |
3 | ‘ I 'm stopping up in the wood . ’ |
4 | I 'm going up in the bedroom next . |
5 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
6 | It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation . |
7 | I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English . |
8 | As a male Caucasian with a father who had died of a coronary thrombosis at the age of 59 , I was brought up in the smoky atmosphere of a northern industrial town . |
9 | Like most people , I was brought up in the belief that a nightmare was something bad that happened while you were asleep . |
10 | And it it was , I mean I was brought up in the country and it , I found it really shocking that people had to live like that , you know . |
11 | I was brought up in the country , on a farm you know , so I 'll try and sort of make you know equal amount of flowers in each , and then er it can be halved . |
12 | ‘ I was brought up in the countryside . |
13 | I was brought up in the cloister , and have Latin and French as well as English and Welsh . ’ |
14 | I was brought up in the days of the old Police Acts . |
15 | I was caught up in the Truby King Mothercraft doctrine of 1935 … |
16 | I was woken up in the night sometimes , the spare bed in my room being made up for someone they 'd met down the Club , the other lodger 's room already occupied . |
17 | The better your plan , the more likely you are to end up in the right place . |
18 | Things do tend to get out of proportion when you 're shut up in the mountains . |
19 | when you 're brought up in the war you see , waste not , want not |
20 | This may seem idiotic to you , if you were brought up in the " filling-station " tradition . |
21 | Yeah cos er Jim had just come on duty and she was going up in the lift with somebody and they said please can we have five pounds , your mother 's just had her hair permed |
22 | She was most welcoming and wanted their children to have their friends in , she was a neighbourly woman , but if those children were still what she called ‘ hanging around ’ by the time dinner was ready and she was held up in the business of getting the evening meal dealt with , it put her out . |
23 | She was picked up in the centre of town in broad daylight . |
24 | In 1979 as a hospital worker , she was caught up in the Winter of Discontent . |
25 | She was caught up in the drama of a big story . |
26 | Now there is a whole ocean between John and me , Ianthe thought , but soon she was caught up in the bustle of landing . |
27 | She was brought up in the colonial culture of India and married to a senior military figure . |
28 | The address was , and I think still is , Kensington Court Garage , because the stables had been converted to the needs of the automobile age ; and we were perched up in the gallery . |
29 | Instead , they are bound up in the replication of previously set standards and routines which may actually frustrate the straightforward goal of simply getting housework done . |
30 | In addition , savers can miss up to six monthly payments over the five years provided they are made up in the months immediately following the five-year term . |