Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [v-ing] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You and Jim want jollying up a bit . ’ |
| 2 | While he ran thorough hands and eyes over his shattered body , Kathleen started cleaning up the chest area ready for the heart monitor after checking the IV line that was running in Haemacel and taking blood for cross-matching , dodging round the radiographer who had brought the portable in and was taking X-rays . |
| 3 | We were just watching 4 What It 's Worth about all those people who go on holiday to the sunny Mediterranean , having booked a sea view , and come back with gastroenteritis from living over the dustbins and now want their money back , when Elinor came running up the garden path closely followed by Nigel . |
| 4 | Later , during the 1960s , Academician M. Tikhomirov proposed setting up a commission to locate the library , and some of its expeditions were still active as late as the 1970s . |
| 5 | Connon came trotting up the pavement towards her . |
| 6 | At 12.45pm , a profusely apologetic Mrs Yeltsin arrived in a black Daimler car as Mrs Major came scurrying up the hotel steps to meet her . |
| 7 | Sheldukher considered turning up the voltage on the Cell again . |
| 8 | In an interview in the weekly Journal du Dimanche , Strauss-Kahn said France would ask the EC to start drawing up a list of potential US targets today . |