Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm you basically saving up for a complete system ? |
| 2 | Well they had a particularly bad time many of them lost absolutely everything and now they 're protesting cos the Lloyds people are only coming up with a nine hundred million pound rescue package that might give them some of them back half of what they invested . |
| 3 | The rock is a unique form of conglomerate , so warming up on a few practice routes was needed to get a feel for it . |
| 4 | Yet both sides expressed satisfaction that the Israeli-Palestinian talks were finally catching up with the concurrent negotiations between Israel and its other Arab adversaries , Jordan , Lebanon and Syria . |
| 5 | I can not resist the feeling that the Government 's extraordinary surrender yesterday to German bullying over the recognition of Croatia had something to do with the need to appease German public opinion , which is turning nasty on the whole process — or perhaps it was just sucking up to the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. |
| 6 | As he was talking , he was sliding out of bed , still trying to face his wife , but finally leaping up with a glad cry and rushing for the door , clad only in his pyjama top , his penis smacking against his thighs as he ran , as she noted . |
| 7 | Then turn to the opposite direction by stepping with the left foot about a shoulder 's width to the left , thus ending up in a left forward stance in the opposite direction . |
| 8 | I mean , I 'm well aware you do n't have to face single-handed and prattling , blowing your own cor-anglais and generally acting up before a captive crowd of thousands . |
| 9 | Our choice would be a former IBMer who has carved out a successful career running another computer company — Comdisco Inc chief Ken Pontikes is already facing up to the same problems besetting IBM , and despite his protestations , there 's always Ross Perot . |
| 10 | The sun was just coming up over the far bank , trailing a red reflection across the water . |
| 11 | Caballeros and Bugner were just coming up onto the 18th green to prolonged applause from the huge crowd in the three grandstands . |
| 12 | There followed a frantic exchange of telegrams between Rangoon and Whitehall in which the Governor offered various solutions to the prevailing deadlock , finally coming up with the unexpected suggestion that a new coalition ministry was possible with Paw Tun , the last premier of Burma before the invasion ; U Saw , his predecessor as premier , an unscrupulous schemer who had been interned for dealing with the Japanese ; and Aung San , previously portrayed by Dorman-Smith as a murderer and an enemy . |
| 13 | Starting with a small dose of nystatin , and gradually building up to the full dose , also helps to avoid a Herxheimer reaction . |
| 14 | Like Cry Freedom , A Dry White Season shows a comfortable white middle-aged man gradually waking up to the vicious inhumanity of the apartheid system . |
| 15 | Parts of the county are still sobering up from the unprecedented celebrations . |
| 16 | Fenella stayed where she was for a moment , still staring up at the imprisoned Nuadu . |
| 17 | It 's staring right up at me , like it knows exactly what I 'm thinking , like it knows I have n't got a dream of ever coming up with a first sentence . |
| 18 | He tried to say this in a way that suggested that he was always ringing up for a natter about arsenic and thallium , that there was nothing odd about his request . |
| 19 | An informant from Aberdeen , where the last women were still working up until the 1950s , told me that these elderly women sometimes had little to do , were regarded rather as passengers and had to put up with rather disparaging remarks , but were kept on until retirement age by the firm , which felt it had obligations towards them . |
| 20 | First , a lot had been achieved ( other countries were only now catching up with the Clean Air Act ) . |
| 21 | Along with the mingling of the genres go the other stylistic features of a rather modish postmodernism : pastiche ; montage ; paraphrase ; parody ; allusion ; quotation ; often adding up to no more than a cultivated divertissement . |
| 22 | Soon , below them , they began to smell the revolting hot stench of the Gruncher 's breath , and the orange-red smoke was now billowing up into the lower branches in thick clouds . |
| 23 | The Landmark Trust is always willing to consider new candidates for restoration and is often restoring up to a dozen buildings at any one time . |
| 24 | Waiting for his break , he supported himself with a series of odd jobs : driving limos , handing out cigarette samples and even dressing up in a giant chicken costume to promote a fast-food franchise . |
| 25 | ‘ He was 'ere making up to an honest travellin' lass . ’ |
| 26 | I found myself listening for the distinct crack , then gazing up at the clear starry sky trying to follow the flight of the shell . |
| 27 | Originally it was planned to bring the tax in in two stages starting with an eight per cent rise and then moving up to the full seventeen and a half . |
| 28 | There are other cases where such trusts are in danger of becoming sleepy animals , only barely keeping up with the minimum requirement to provide public access . |
| 29 | It was a delight to see the pleasure , particularly of many of our older employees , once again meeting up with the former MD 's of the company . |
| 30 | With the candles and red roses of Valentines 's Day cleared away , couples are again facing up to the grim realities of living together . |