Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We expect to be the McDonald 's of videotex , opening up franchises around the country , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 2 | Even the railway system constructed under British rule can now be seen to have had an ambiguous role in relation to the Indian economy , for its benefits have to be set against its encouragement of export-based production and its role in opening up India to the inflow of manufactures , mainly from Britain ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 85-.6 ) . |
| 3 | Opening up hearings to the public would require a byelaw change , but the PCD has already implemented the move to more informative reporting . |
| 4 | It is about opening up ideas about the range of choices which could and should be available to them . |
| 5 | In the silence we hear a cow tearing up grass by the roots and chewing . |
| 6 | Keeping up morale in the Falklands |
| 7 | This was a time when Haslam learned the subtle art of keeping up appearances despite the fact that the world seemed to be collapsing all around him . |
| 8 | AN MP is keeping up pressure on the Government to improve East Anglia 's coastal defences after last month 's surge tide which resulted in widespread flooding . |
| 9 | Norway 's most eloquent campaigner against the Community is Anne Enger Lahnstein , leader of the Centre Party , which , like the anti-EC Socialist Left Party , is picking up support at the expense of Labour , which forms the minority government . |
| 10 | Former GB tourist Des Foy and fellow centre John Henderson are also on their way to Fartown , with Oldham picking up £10,000 for the pair . |
| 11 | As the diesel train came in and people were already picking up suitcases from the platform Moran turned and kissed her as if it were a last good night to all the nights she had come to him . |
| 12 | They stared in surprise and she said in a tired voice , ‘ Oh it does n't matter , I suppose , not the old skull , but he 's run me ragged just lately , picking up things round the house and putting them down where they should n't be . |
| 13 | Mr Bond said : ‘ There are 33 independent milkmen who are all helping out by picking up food around the town . |
| 14 | They could have followed us the four hours to Dieppe in the hope of picking up trade on the way back ; but that makes for a ten-hour day . |
| 15 | In agricultural districts school attendance registers showed poor attendance at harvest time when girls of ten or eleven were set to work picking up stones in the fields . |
| 16 | Art , picking up confidence from the decline of religion , announces its transcendence of the world ( and it lasts , it lasts ! art beats death ! ) , but this announcement is n't accessible to all , or where accessible is n't always inspiring or welcome . |
| 17 | In them it is concerned with picking up information about the timing and length of daylight . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , strong underlying trends have been pushing up costs in the United Kingdom as they have in other countries — the increasing sophistication of medical treatment , the survival of those who would have died in an earlier decade , new and expensive drugs , the growing awareness amongst the public of potential treatments , a reluctance to merely grin and bear pain and discomfort , and above all the ageing of the population . |
| 19 | Charged by Bragg with writing up notes on the case , Morton decided that they could equally well be done that night , at home . |
| 20 | Grey-green masses slip , rise , gather to a ripple and wave , purposeful , arrowing up arteries of the land … … past lost lanes , cow-trodden banks , nudging the reeds , lifting the lank waterweed , flooding pills , backwaters , bobbing the floats of fishermen , the undersides of leaves and boats , and gliding , gliding , over Cotswold 's flawed reflection … … refugee from the ominous petulance of the sea . |
| 21 | ‘ They were training up people for the university , teaching me Latin . |
| 22 | Tim 's coming up to move the bath back and all that you see , this old bath and erm , do some pipe work , but until that 's all done , erm , er , until this woman is sorted out , because if I find in the end we 've got to insulate again , then I know how I feel , I mean that tongue and groove going up polystyrene in the lounge and yesterday I think he 's got a new organ |
| 23 | The amount breaks down as follows : * a criminal fine of $100 million , the highest ever levied against a polluter , set after Exxon agreed to plead guilty to charges of criminal misdemeanour ; * a total of $900 million in civil damages , to be administered by a board of Alaska state and US federal officials , and used for cleaning up operations along the Alaska shoreline over the next decade ; * if further damage from the slick emerges between the years 2002 and 2006 , Exxon will be liable for up to $100 million more . |
| 24 | De Quincey wrote that habitual opium-taking reawakened the childhood capacity that we all recognize and remember , for conjuring up monsters in the dark . |
| 25 | His captain , volatile as any ice-hockey player , was equally distracted , his aggressive posture conjuring up visions of the Perth nightmare when , unforgivably booted by Lillee , Miandad raised a retaliatory bat which , only by the grace of God , abandoned its journey towards Lillee 's head . |
| 26 | Its course of ten short sound pieces are like an aural snapshot album , each one conjuring up visions in the hearer 's imagination . |
| 27 | However , a carry back of ACT may be generated by paying up dividends outside the group income election ( as discussed earlier ) . |
| 28 | ‘ The cutlets yes , certainly , since the Prince rejected them first time round , and asked for them later , ’ dredging up memories from the depths of his mind . |
| 29 | I am told that Honest John has taken to phoning up editors of the papers that helped him regain power to plead with them not to be so beastly . |
| 30 | We and our daily rhythms can respond to bright light and an appropriate use of this may become part of our armoury for speeding up adjustment of the body clock after a time-zone transition . |