Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Wilson 's point is a good one , there is a considerable momentum building up within the digital multimedia industry and even if reluctance to reinvest in new kit slows the pace of change , it is unlikely to deflect the overwhelming trend . |
| 2 | Mrs Hollidaye 's dogs were left inside the car bobbing up at the rear window . |
| 3 | She thought of the long , black car gliding up to the great white building where they were going to hold the conference that would put an end to war for ever . |
| 4 | It is in the classic pattern for the fifteenth century hôtel ; built round a courtyard and with an entrance doorway leading up to the Medieval stairway in the centre of the court façade . |
| 5 | In the case of the UK 's crossroads , for example , that approach pays scant attention to the break-up of the UK 's position at the centre of the Sterling Area and Commonwealth trade in the 1970s , or to the responsibility of unions , management , the financial system and the state for manufacturing industry 's poor productivity growth and hence declining international competitiveness during the long boom leading up to the structural changes of the 1970s/1980s period . |
| 6 | We got talking and strolled along the riverside path too engrossed to hear the rumble of thunder getting nearer , or note the wind getting up to a blustery gale . |
| 7 | Dorcas sat in his workshop and stared at the snow piling up against the grubby window , giving the shed a dull grey light . |
| 8 | But what one chiefly saw was a landscape patterned by the long lines of vine running up to the wooded hilltops , a supremely domesticated landscape . |
| 9 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 10 | Within my own practice , I have never met a white child who says he or she is not white ; neither have I met a black child growing up in a black family saying that he or she is not black . |
| 11 | The postponement — announced at the beginning of the year and rationalized on the grounds that , with legislative and presidential elections due to be held in 1992 , a third set of elections would have involved undue expense — was also condemned by a growing number of student protesters and threatened to become a key issue in the campaign leading up to the presidential elections in December . |
| 12 | The poem is thus curiously " displaced " , a late Victorian work turning up in the crisp 1930s , the Auden decade . |
| 13 | Today , I think people would say that a lot of what we did in those early days has been influential in the general brightening up of the high streets in this country . |
| 14 | Obviously , it is never easy to disentangle the process leading up to a particular credit transaction from the general buying process . |
| 15 | In the period leading up to the actual fight , first-time fighters are suddenly stricken with nervous tension . |
| 16 | He analysed local government spending and labour-force figures in the post-war period leading up to the late 1970s . |
| 17 | With the edge of the island visible on either side , Manhattan sits in murky river , an absurd chunk of metropolis looking like a Gothic spaceship working up to an explosive departure from the planet . |
| 18 | The sight of Peter Rabbit hanging up in an old-fashioned butcher 's window brings tears to our eyes , while pretty pink portions prepared and hacked by the supermarket cause no such qualms . |
| 19 | I was dragged out of the cave , through the waterfall , to lie on my back gazing up at the fast-moving clouds in the blue sky ; and I thought to myself , Those clouds are free , just as I was until now . |
| 20 | , Villagers are continuing their protests against the Sardar Sarovar dam in the Narmada river in central India [ see ED No. 48 ] despite the danger posed to their village by water building up behind the half-completed dam . |
| 21 | Robyn lay on her back looking up at the cloudless sky . |
| 22 | He could see the Tientsin clearly through the transparent walls of the car , its underbelly glowing , great wreaths of mist swirling up into the cold air overhead . |
| 23 | Instead , play a punching , running shot , whether 30 yards or as much as 100 yards from the green , and get the ball running up onto the top layer . |
| 24 | I would have no difficulty whatever in going on any hustings and waxing eloquent about foul sewage coming up in the wrong places . |
| 25 | ‘ I found a good place on the bus , on the top deck , right at the front , where you can feel the warmth coming up through a grating ’ ( here and there a head nodded understandingly ) ‘ and see the view . |
| 26 | The light from a standard lamp caught the hair bubbling up through the open neck of his shirt and on the backs of his arms . |
| 27 | Walter Carew raised his head and stared at the grey tendrils of smoke climbing up from the brown barren waste . |
| 28 | ‘ There will be deaths ! ’ the old woman proclaimed , one bony finger streaking up to the grey clouds . |
| 29 | The high marble steps curved upwards , paralleling the flight leading up from the front door . |
| 30 | The tusks branched , one limb reaching up to the leafy mass on the head , the other reaching down , becoming tendrillar , tendrils curling round the torso and the arms , then down the spindly legs , supplying lobate oak-leaves as a covering for the scored , scoured , bark-like flesh below . |