Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [v-ing] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time the new cannon offered relative ease of production , and a greater degree of safety in use , unlike the former practice of building up the guns from iron bands held together with loops . |
| 2 | JILY JIP TUP A thinking machine that develops a stammer ; the action of pulling up the trousers while running uphill |
| 3 | JIL JIPY TUP Any machine with something incurable about it ; pleasant laughter that is nevertheless unwelcome ; the action of pulling up the trousers while running downhill |
| 4 | That is why , Kathleen told herself , she took such pleasure in packing up the parcels . |
| 5 | On the credit side there must be recorded the conscious emphasis on the school as a transmitter of moral values and as an instrument in building up the attitudes necessary for an active citizen : co-operation , integrity , industry and many more . |
| 6 | Young women married to salesmen , for once , took an interest in where their husbands would be on the great day ; the older men , who ricocheted between various business interests , were lectured steadily , any time they put in an appearance at home , on the necessity of being in Tollemarche at this time ; and those males who were doomed to spend their lives in Tollemarche found themselves with intolerable lists of jobs to be done , from laying out backyard skating rinks to pinning up the hems on their female relatives ' costumes . |
| 7 | I like to think that we in the Met Office did our little bit towards keeping up the boys ' spirits . |
| 8 | Braque , on the other hand , has used Cézanne 's technique of opening up the contours of objects , so that in his paintings the eye slips inwards and upwards from plane to plane without having to make a series of abrupt transitions or adjustments . |
| 9 | The directions for making up the solutions for patient use are defined quite clearly in the 6th edition 248 footnote . |
| 10 | And the ordeal of putting up the lists — he could still feel the brute weight of Allan Stewart 's shoulder jolting him aside , the smell of whisky on his breath , and then the twilit hours lying low beside the minister in the church , waiting for the hubbub outside to die away . |
| 11 | This cemented his place in the Test team , although it would be another year or so before he was given the new ball , and then it was just a question of piling up the scalps as the main strike bowler . |
| 12 | Commenting on the grant , Alex Wright of the Commission said , ‘ We welcome this grant and we hope it will assist Lancashire County Council in opening up the rights of way network by dealing with several major problems and paths that need modifications . ’ |
| 13 | These animals are frequently attacked by predatory wasps and they divert the killers by wrapping up the remains of insects or egg cocoons and positioning them in their webs . |
| 14 | No attempt appears to have been made , however , to rationalize the plan by linking up the side-streets and lanes by the provision of an intervallum road . |
| 15 | Our other main base was at Gravesend on the Thames , but until the new pier and floating pontoon was built in 1980 it was not a convenient place for laying up the cutters . |
| 16 | It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces . |
| 17 | ‘ We are in the process of drawing up the seedings and groupings of the various qualifying rounds , ’ said tournament director Brian Skirrow . |
| 18 | The vertical and horizontal rulers need to be set to a rigidly defined position , at least for the purposes of setting up the grids . |
| 19 | He was a gentle , kindly old man ( a tailor by trade ) who was happy to leave his wife in complete charge of bringing up the kids in her own way . |
| 20 | Suddenly , the unthinkable happened : the engineer in charge of putting up the lights , spoke up . |
| 21 | The Germans did their fair share of tearing up the woods . |
| 22 | He had the art of lighting up the faces of those he met by a single kindly word , and so making them his admirers in a flash . |
| 23 | By the late 1960s , members were putting down up to 300 questions a day and the Speaker attempted to reach more oral questions by speeding up the exchanges so as to cover forty to fifty questions in fifty or fifty-five minutes . |
| 24 | Such corruption has played some part in building up the funds held in international bank accounts or other forms of investment by African citizens , recently estimated to total $20 billion between 1974 and 1985 . |
| 25 | With proposals for a fifth terrestrial channel currently being studied and a variety of plans to introduce pay-TV under consideration , the Government is clearly embarking on a policy of opening up the airwaves . |
| 26 | The General Medical Council is looking at ways of tightening up the rules to stop bogus doctors working and European laws will help . ’ |
| 27 | Some means of weighing up the costs and benefits of such an approach is therefore capable of being employed . |
| 28 | Third , if the crude mechanism of totting up the votes for different parties is to be employed for the purpose of supporting a specific contention , there is the inconvenient fact that 79 per cent of those who voted in Scotland backed parties that wish to maintain the Union . |
| 29 | ‘ The UK felt it very important to be a member of LOFT while the ( Sizewell ) inquiry was going on , so they could demonstrate their seriousness in picking up the questions on safety ’ . |
| 30 | Bruce is particularly proud of ICI 's role in opening up the spirits market . |