Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [v-ing] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of the front window he saw the ‘ For Sale ’ sign , the white paint of the board showing up in the light that shone from between the curtains of Tom 's cottage . |
| 2 | I spent the morning sitting on the floor and the afternoon standing up at the shelf . |
| 3 | A row of thatched cottages is strung along the lane coming up from the sea and opens into a forecourt in the front and at the eastern side of the house . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Dorcas sat in his workshop and stared at the snow piling up against the grubby window , giving the shed a dull grey light . |
| 6 | Mrs Hollidaye 's dogs were left inside the car bobbing up at the rear window . |
| 7 | She was hardly aware of the car pulling up outside the house , or of going up to her bedroom , claiming that she was too exhausted to relax on the beach and enjoy the remainder of the sunshine . |
| 8 | Indeed , if you are lucky , on a clear day you might just be able to see the spring bubbling up at the bottom of the pond . |
| 9 | I went in and there 's Heidi oh well I 've just got all the script coming up on the screen and I 've just got so and so for you and I |
| 10 | It means that the knife behind the saw blade ( which prevents the wood closing up behind the cut ) automatically moves to the ideal position relative to the saw blade , as the depth adjustment is made . |
| 11 | In spite of the worry at the back of her mind , she sat down beside her patient and said gently , ‘ As I sat having my breakfast to the sound of church bells , with the sun coming up behind the hills , I think I felt the sort of affinity you must have with Samana . |
| 12 | One possible event being planned involves children from the village lining up on the pavement next to the road to highlight how many of them are at risk from traffic that goes through the village every day . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The referendums had been called after it became clear during the campaign leading up to the June Maastricht referendum that the Irish Constitution 's restrictive abortion provisions could clash with EC rights to freedom of movement and information [ see p. 38942 ] . |
| 15 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 16 | ( 2 ) That the bank manager , Mr. Williams , was unaware of the circumstances existing between the wife and the husband leading up to the execution of the charge . |
| 17 | She was saved by the waiter shimmying up with the partridges , making a great show of how pink they were inside , pointing out the foie gras stuffing , the celeriac purée and the exquisitely dark and glistening Madeira sauce . |
| 18 | ‘ These include a fishing boat haven at the lough , woodland walks and the general sprucing up of the look of the place , such as taking away all overhead electricity wires and putting them underground and getting a new street lighting system . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Many cotton warehouses displaying gridded elevations reminiscent of those of the mills themselves were erected in central Manchester , ‘ Cottonopolis ’ in the period leading up to the start of World War I , and the later the building , the more elaborate and showy was the architecture . |
| 21 | However , in the period leading up to the birth of nationalism , this small number of literates formed a politically important minority . |
| 22 | Bernie obviously worked on the idea and eventually came up with a much cheaper and more simple solution which would provide the investigator with a moving picture of the basic flight instruments during the period leading up to the crash . |
| 23 | For example , Ellen Ross 's ( 1983 ) discussion of the lifestyle of the working poor in the East End of London , in the period leading up to the First World War , contains evidence about financial relationships between young working adults and their parents , based partly on the surveys of Charles Booth ( 1892b ) . |
| 24 | If we relate this to the changes in the Labrador Sea we see ( Fig. 2 a ) that the only time there has been such a long period with little or no change in salinity , followed by a sudden marked freshening , was the period leading up to the renewal in 1972 . |
| 25 | Through the period leading up to the Second World War rural England too was subjected , according to C.E.M . |
| 26 | In the period leading up to the actual fight , first-time fighters are suddenly stricken with nervous tension . |
| 27 | When not teaching the social sciences , Williams was filling his time by researching West Indian history , for this was the period leading up to the publication of ‘ Capitalism and Slavery ’ . |
| 28 | The purpose of this memorandum is to provide employees with some general information about the recruitment arrangements which will apply in the period leading up to the introduction of the Council Tax . |
| 29 | The revival of the Hindu-Moslem dispute , which had played an important part in the November election campaign [ see pp. 36977 ; 37030 ] , had threatened to provoke further communal tensions in the period leading up to the Bihar state assembly elections at the end of February [ see p. 37245 ] . |
| 30 | Production increased tenfold in the period leading up to the second world war . |