Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] up [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These included speeding up the confinement of government troops and agreeing to an election timetable . |
| 2 | We have been offered a pot-pourri of amendments — some favour London , some favour London and the south-east and others suggest carving up the country into all sorts of different regions . |
| 3 | PINCH TEST : This involves picking up a fold of skin ( on the horse 's neck ) between your forefinger and thumb , lifting it away from the neck , and then releasing it . |
| 4 | After the cab had departed he 'd returned to the body search ; a couple of rough-looking kids came sneaking up the alley for purposes unknown , but a long , low growl from the shadows sent them running . |
| 5 | Connon came trotting up the pavement towards her . |
| 6 | And a cinnamon and blue nuthatch had been seen creeping up the trunk of a tree towards its mud-patched nesting hole , giving one lad a splendid chance to try out his new birthday present telescope . |
| 7 | When you begin to fly your model in circuits regularly , do be sure to practice both right and left hand circuits to avoid building up a bias towards one particular direction . |
| 8 | Fawley power station , which supplies electricity to the National Grid , operated at reduced capacity to avoid sucking up the oil in its water cooling system . |
| 9 | And if there 's no money in it for me I 'm not gon na give priority to going picking up a piece of wood for a customer . |
| 10 | That 's not a problem that I can actually deal with er but Wales certainly er you know takes the sort of interest in Europe that we have seen from most of the Conservative speakers er in trying to sum up this debate you have to refer to them er of not being able to show , there 's a definite sort of anti European theme coming through from most of the speakers from the back benches who 've chosen to take part in this debate tonight from the other side and it 's difficulty to avoid summing up the debate without some reference to the points that they have made which is in complete contrast to the attitude that we have erm in Wales er towards Europe and that we are . |
| 11 | The Peloponnesians ravaged the mine district in 430 ( Thuc. ii.55 ) , but it is hard to destroy a mine without explosives , and it was not till the Spartans envisaged setting up a fort on Attic territory at Decelea ( p. 142 ) that there could be talk of seriously damaging Athens ' mining revenues ( vi.91 ) . |
| 12 | John also began building up a collection of gramophone records ; Herbert gave him pocket money to buy one a week . |
| 13 | The many deadening years spent bringing up a family in the narrow society of Tidewater Virginia seemed to be evaporating rapidly from her memory in the heat and excitement of the tropics . |
| 14 | Simon did n't answer , just turned in his swivel chair and began lacing up the front of Kim 's basque while still giving me my instructions . |
| 15 | Numbers vary , but up to 650 birds have been noted passing up the Channel in a spring , and movements of 50 to 100 birds in a day are an annual event ; 234 flying east off Beachy Head on 15 April 1968 is the largest single movement noted . |
| 16 | Another attempt to save the inductivist programme involves giving up the idea of ascribing probabilities to scientific laws and theories . |
| 17 | In an interview in the weekly Journal du Dimanche , Strauss-Kahn said France would ask the EC to start drawing up a list of potential US targets today . |
| 18 | It is the DRO 's job to find suitable employment for the disabled and this entails building up a knowledge of suitable work available in the locality and of sympathetic employers , as well as discussing the individual disabled person 's particular problems and inclinations . |
| 19 | Thus they built up a considerable number of contact points across the action areas , and ( in Ipswich ) even started drawing up a register of people prepared to be considered as support workers . |
| 20 | For many , the very phrase risk management may have been a switch off even before the experts started whipping up the campaign with the emphasis on the disaster scenario — terrorist bombings , sinking oil tankers , fraud , kidnap and computer fires . |
| 21 | The breakthrough came 6 weeks after the police dismantled the garage and started ripping up the garden at what used to be the home of Joan 's husband , David Main . |
| 22 | The shortage of women solicitors and the difficulty in persuading many to return after having children is prompting the Law Society to consider setting up a creche for employees of firms in central London . |
| 23 | The US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has proposed setting up a system by which " permits to pollute " with sulphur dioxide ( SO2 ) could be traded among industrial plants . |
| 24 | In its response to a Scottish Natural Heritage ( SNH ) consultation paper , the RA has also proposed setting up a network of footpaths around local communities , and financial support to farmers and landowners — through reform of the Common Agricultural Policy — to help them provide better access to their land . |
| 25 | It was after six when she got home and started clearing up the detritus of lunch . |
| 26 | ( As examples of the latter , try looking up the length of the river Mississippi in as many reference books as you can find , and compare the answers. ) 5 . |
| 27 | The drafters of the 1533 act can readily be imagined looking up the statute of Richard II which referred to ‘ varlets called yeomen ’ in the service of lords — the Canon 's Yeoman no less . |
| 28 | The interchange has deteriorated badly in the 19 years since completion and repair work is involving jacking up the deck of sections of sliproad still in use in order to extract the decaying crosshead beams for replacement . |
| 29 | You start building up a dossier on all known facts about the International Continental Union Bank , US . |
| 30 | She , after all , had been left holding up the universe over the parents , and in all probability , whatever strict injunctions he issued now , she would , by the time he rejoined her , have relieved him of the most dreadful of all the duties his office laid on him , and somehow , with sense , sedatives and sturdy , unpretending sympathy , have gone part-way towards reconciling the bereaved to their bereavement . |