Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tawny giant with shoulders and arms like a blacksmith 's , he had lean hips , more freckles than a gull 's egg , a snub nose , sleepy honey-coloured eyes , Bart 's pugnacious jaw and red-gold hair sticking up like a Dandy brush . |
| 2 | I remember the white snow splashing up like a wave . ’ |
| 3 | At a Labour conference you get Gerry Adams turning up at a fringe meeting , and he the leader of Sinn Fein , which is cousin to the IRA , which in 1984 , in this same town , blew up the Grand Hotel in an attempt to murder the Prime Minister and Cabinet . |
| 4 | Erica De'Ath , Teenagers Growing up in a Stepfamily |
| 5 | The whole of the study of sort of moving things and statics , things like ladders leaning up against a wall , it 's okay , it 's interesting . |
| 6 | ‘ From my point of view it was like a child climbing up on a wall to look in but she rushed back and said : ‘ No , I ca n't do it , ’ and started crying in my arms . |
| 7 | It was it was fun when we first started , because the weather was nice , you know it was er you c take a thermos up and have a picnic and sit in the chair and read a book or whatever if there was no one around , but after a while when it became a duty , yeah it was hard work getting up on a winter 's morning , knowing full well that you probably would n't see any cars if you down in until about ten in the morning , but you still had to be there at seven o'clock , and honking it down with rain or whatever . |
| 8 | There are a lot of enthusiasts coming up with a lot of good ideas but the information never gets out . |
| 9 | So a boy coming up through a family that was involved in riveters would sort of more or less |
| 10 | Minutes do not in any case include discussions leading up to a decision but only the decision itself . |
| 11 | Isobel looked up and laughed herself , her nose wrinkling up like a child 's . |
| 12 | I recently bought a Series IIA ex-military Land Rover with the intention of completely rebuilding it over the next few years ending up with a vehicle that will last for years to come . |
| 13 | He wrote love-letters for his less literate friends , as did William Lovett growing up in a fishing village at the other end of England . |
| 14 | No woman feels her best during the period leading up to a period . |
| 15 | A long article in Le Monde , which bore a cartoon showing Mr Kohl getting up from a dinner table to join some friends , leaving Mr Mitterrand alone and rather forlorn , the commentator wrote : ‘ The ‘ special relationship ’ between France and Germany is such that all foreign policy questions have an impact on it . |
| 16 | News of Clive Gregson and Christine Collister splitting up as a couple sadly signalled the end , too , of a fruitful artistic union . |
| 17 | This year I have my mummy and my daddy coming up for a couple of days and that will be fine |
| 18 | It was suddenly as though the passion had been drained from her , her juices drying up like a desert stream in summer . |
| 19 | Gliders lining up for a competition launch |
| 20 | This will be immediately preceded by the dispatch from the tail-gate of the aircraft of a ‘ wedge ’ , a platform containing up to a ton of stores . |
| 21 | HEALTH fears over raw sewage washing up on a Fife beach have resulted in one local authority forcing another to clean up the pollution . |
| 22 | Any scientist coming up with a set of laboratory in vitro tests that accurately predicts the behaviour of a material inside a patient 's mouth would be dearly loved by both government and industry . |
| 23 | Erm , I had a bit difficulty coming up with a case , actually , erm , this |
| 24 | But once they were on the market , the corp had spent a lot of R and D money coming up with a way to beat them . |
| 25 | there 's rugby at Stow on the wold on Sunday … teague … hastings … andrew … skinner lots of big names lining up in a charity celebrity match they land by helicopter at lunchtime … |
| 26 | ( In case you missed the first , it featured a woman brewing up in a Beetle . ) |
| 27 | of a much more basic malaise and structural phenomenon , namely the inability of the marketable output ( largely industrial ) sector to grow as fast as productivity growth without the economy coming up against a balance of payments constraint , due to a high U.K. income elasticity of demand for imports , coupled with a much lower world income elasticity of demand for U.K exports . |
| 28 | Fruit grew on the compound : a few bananas , lemons , mangoes , pawpaw and avocado pears weighing up to a pound and a half . |
| 29 | It tells a poignant story about the community where Singleton grew up : of three friends growing up in a South Central Los Angeles neighbourhood , and of street life where friendship , pain , danger and love combine to form reality . |
| 30 | The Diet gave its final approval on Oct. 3 to a bill imposing up to a year 's imprisonment on brokers who violated a new law making all shareholder compensation schemes by brokers illegal , and up to six months for clients who requested paybacks . |