Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 32 | It was the same horse , the Indian holding its head and Gómez just swinging up into the saddle , Ward standing in the stable doorway . |
| 33 | And she was reported to have er have said when they when they took her out , that there would be nothing nothing grow on the site of the house but runcho And I do n't know the they were awful hungry for land in that day you ken and there was quite , there was more than one occasion there was old folk just putting up with the house just to get the land that it stood on . |
| 34 | " They 're not exactly queuing up at the door , though , are they ? " |
| 35 | The houses of Old Odborough are already lighting up for the evening , but it is not yet dark enough to see the lights farther away . |
| 36 | When we got to the halfway camp , two of us were not feeling up to the rest of the climb , and spent the night there . |
| 37 | Mister Johnny 's not feeling up to the mark at the moment . |
| 38 | He said I was just covering up for the fact that I had n't the faintest idea of what was wrong . ’ |
| 39 | I kept on waking up in a panic , thinking I had missed an observation , and it took quite some while to get my internal clock re-adjusted to normal waking and sleeping hours . |
| 40 | ‘ The kiss of life , I hope ? ’ said the young man Lawrence , putting a deliberate finger through the slight tension which was palpably building up within the room . |
| 41 | If you encounter such words , practise them systematically by a ) tapping the rhythm , b ) mimicking the last few syllables and then gradually building up to the beginning of the word , c ) putting the long word in different position on a series of sentences and practising them , like in following example : Word stress is often modified when the word occurs in a sentence . |
| 42 | The EC favoured further opening up of the customer equipment market ; a separation of the regulatory and operational functions of the telephone authority ; a more cost-oriented pricing of services ; the major network and a small number of basic services would remain the monopoly of the telecoms administration . |
| 43 | She shot off looking up at the plane , underneath the tail and far wing and back again . |
| 44 | We talked of toxic wastes ; the possibility of there ever being true democracy in Tonga ( ‘ on paper the place is ripe for revolution , it is true , and our friends in the other islands are experiencing troubled times , so we must be wary ’ ) ; the complaints about corruption among the Tongan nobility , the curious business arrangements engineered between members of the royal family and the dubious Americans who were forever fetching up at the palace doorstep wishing to bend a royal ear to this scheme or that , with wealth and fame for all ; and the most surprising news : his decision to demolish the royal palace . |
| 45 | it was literally b literally like going up to the shop and buying a newspaper . |
| 46 | I 'm always waking up in the night . |
| 47 | Five and six in the morning , and you 're always waking up in the middle of the night cos you do n't know , you know , if summat 's happened or summat 's gon na happen . |
| 48 | Things do n't look likely to improve , since recruits are hardly piling up at the door . |
| 49 | Aha that 's what I do , it 's like getting up in the morning Mark . |
| 50 | There were quite a few battles before Pearce got British Aerospace on the road to privatisation , particularly with civil servants and ‘ officials who were not really responsible , but tended to sit on the sidelines criticising and always coming up with a reason why you could n't do anything . ’ |
| 51 | Message-sending and letter-writing went on , and they were always running up to the telephone booths at the station . |
| 52 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |
| 53 | If your teenagers are always queuing up outside the bathroom , it might be a good idea to think about installing washbasins in their bedrooms . |
| 54 | And she adds , ‘ Sometimes I even get the feeling that he 's deliberately working up to a smack ; almost testing me out , pushing me to the limit ! ’ |
| 55 | As we passed close by we made out a cross , erected at the tip in 1896 after two destroyers collided in thick fog , eventually breaking up on the headland . |
| 56 | It might be argued that a tacit assumption of research which examines girls ' 'failure' in science is not only that girls are inadequate-not measuring up to the standard of boys — but also that maths , physics and chemistry are more difficult and more important than English , languages , history and biology . |
| 57 | Amidst all this shaking and trembling , respectable opinion was also waking up to the fact that new forms of life and organisation had emerged among the working class — both in a political , cultural and material sense . |
| 58 | The Trust 's chief executive , Martin Dyer , is also moving up from the south to Askrigg Darrowby in TV 's All Creatures Great and Small . |
| 59 | But the new West Indies proved encouragingly resilient , repeatedly getting up off the canvas to deliver the final knockout punch . |
| 60 | Apple Computer Inc 's Apple USA unit cut prices on the PowerBook Duo 210 4/80 , Duo 230 4/80 , Duo 230 4/120 and Duo 230 4/120 with modem , by between 10% and 18% : it says it is now catching up with the demand . |