Example sentences of "[noun] and [v-ing] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All around him , squatting on the ground , were his followers ; and beyond them , around the outskirts and blocking up the mouths of the little streets which gave on to the square , was a wider , more disinterested audience . |
| 2 | The practice of clipping below the gallery and throwing up the fleeces to a helper to put into the barn was followed here . |
| 3 | This is mainly dealing with the Social Fund which as you know , is erm , go undergoing changes , which means er loss of money and breaking up the fundings to twelve monthly amounts , which is creating great difficulties . |
| 4 | ‘ They look to be part of a community and picking up the rules of the culture . |
| 5 | The Labour Party had a merry time playing up the problems and piling up the votes . |
| 6 | The teachers were shouting at each other and scrambling up the shelves but getting nowhere . |
| 7 | Yet mercenaries seem still to have formed only a small part of the German army ; the fief-rente was almost exclusively used to supply garrisons for castles and fortified towns ; and as the Church and its ministeriales became a less reliable source of troops , the twelfth-century emperors resorted to the practice of strengthening feudal bonds and building up the resources of their own domains . |
| 8 | The Meeting Stent themselves with fifteen shillings sterling being the estimate given for Painting the Church yeard Gate of Kilarow and putting up the Globes on the Pillars of the Gate … |
| 9 | These are the options now facing Birdland , those retrogressive bleach boys of yore ; the notorious Brummie blond bombshells who when they were n't throwing up , were trashing up hotel rooms and getting up the noses of every other band in the land . |
| 10 | He was sent back to England in 1595 and by 1605 he had set up an organization of recusant Welsh gentry , Welsh secular priests , and Jesuits ( centred in Gwent and extending up the marches ) . |
| 11 | You said when we bought those bloody birds last Christmas , ‘ I wonder how long it 'll be before we 're yanking all this apart again and halving the furniture and carving up the doves . ’ |
| 12 | And more often than not , while Mansell was chalking up the victories and lapping up the accolades , Damon was reduced to the role of spectator . |
| 13 | Craig set down his glass and taking up the papers moved swiftly across the room . |
| 14 | As a result , the student is directed into exceedingly narrow channels , and the work is a matter of going through some methodological routines and writing up the results . |
| 15 | One Friday morning towards the end of the summer , Josh sat in the Guild Office , going through the wages list and making up the pay-packets to be doled out at the end of the day . |
| 16 | This in turn means being even more strict and exact in measuring out the food and counting up the calories . |
| 17 | He is responsible for the day-to-day running of the computer system , installing new software and setting up the accounts on which LIFESPAN users will do most of their work . |
| 18 | He is responsible for the day-to-day running of the computer system , installing new software and setting up the accounts on which LIFESPAN users will do most of their work . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been going to the races and washing up the dishes with my wife , as I need a bit of a rest before I start . |
| 20 | Caterina and Rosalba , working at Sabina 's side in the cool of the pantry 's shade , were pinching pouches of dough to seal in the stuffing of cream cheese , pepper and chopped basil and lining up the results on a white tea towel powdered with coarse rice flour . |
| 21 | The students and staff were up at Sam re-painting the stones and filling up the holes in the road . |