Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proceedings for the dissolution or winding up of a partnership shall be commenced in the court for the district in which the partnership business was or is carried on ( Ord 4 , r 5 ) . |
| 2 | From time to time , taking one to lunch or meeting up for a drink gives you a chance to talk shop and learn about the other 's work and publications . |
| 3 | To put it another way : when the cat is on heat ( which she has n't been since the vet gave her the unkindest cut of all ) , nevertheless when she was , she had very little time for chasing moths hanging unsubtly round the fridge or cuddling up for a neck scratch . |
| 4 | Wiping or scrubbing with the arm fully extended is less efficient than squaring up to a job and wiping an area slightly offset from the vertical bodycentreline . |
| 5 | But I 'm starting to get used to it , it 's fascinating to find out about the way an artist works — and it 's a darn sight better than putting up with a patient who 's frustrated because she is n't getting anything done ! ’ |
| 6 | Sometimes men in mackintoshes stared in at the bookshop windows as if building up to a flash . |
| 7 | Flying through the sea breeze front without realising it is a common cause of inadvertently landing downwind and ending up in a hedge . |
| 8 | It is possible that the origin is naval and dates from the 16th Century when ‘ sucking the monkey ’ described the tapping and topping up of a coconut with rum before the milk mix was sucked from it . |
| 9 | Thus there is no evidence as yet for any imaginative creation , development and writing up of a range of stories within the English fabliau corpus . |
| 10 | Director PAUL VERHOEVEN tells EDWARD MURPHY about courting controversy and growing up in a nightmare , while KIM NEWMAN casts an eye over the overblown finished product |
| 11 | He may be a grandfather who has survived heart surgery and likes nothing better than spending time with his family but , like a retired gunslinger who can only be pushed so far , he gives the impression of still being capable of strapping on a Colt 45 and facing up to a gaggle of tobacco-stained desperadoes . |
| 12 | and coming up with a travesty like this that masquerades as a motion to the Council . |
| 13 | Adam had a sudden awful vision of the spade going through that green turf and coming up with a skull on it . |
| 14 | The reviewer of the programme in Sydsvenska Dagbladet the next day drew a parallel with ‘ the horrible murder and cutting up of a prostitute , Catrin da Costa , in Stockholm a couple of years ago ’ . |
| 15 | The sloop apparently ran straight on to the top of the bank under sail in spite of the fact that the top of the bank is 10 m ( 30 ft ) above the level of high spring tides.Jutson ( 1939 ) has pointed to a series of generally narrow platforms cut mainly in almost horizontal rocks in New South Wales and extending up to a height of 10 m ( 30 ft ) or more . |
| 16 | If his opponent is not standing correctly , an attacker can set him up by feinting a blow to an area of the body and following up with a sweep . |
| 17 | We 'll take more of your calls later , but coming up in a couple of minutes all the top action from the Scottish League . |
| 18 | Ally McCoist 's winning goal spectacular enough , but coming up in a moment , exclusive pictures of Duncan Shearer 's equally magnificent strike for Aberdeen against Dundee United . |
| 19 | Thus there are elements of both substitutability and complementarity in the services provided by the futures and forward contracts , and the two markets , while competing up to a point can also synergistically reinforce each other . |
| 20 | ASCOT racegoers should keep the champagne temporarily on ice while warming up with a Scotch and American this afternoon , when Willie Carson and Steve Cauthen may dominate the last Flat meeting of the season at the Berkshire course . |