Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [prep] the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 2 | How , picking up on the terms you use Professor Lock , how would the policy guarantee that what this elephant was special ? |
| 3 | Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference . |
| 4 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |
| 5 | Looking up at the stars I thought of the goddess Nut , her breasts spangled with constellations . |
| 6 | ‘ Staff Nurse , ’ she said without looking up from the notes she was writing . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Benedict ! ’ uttered Agnes Diggory , looking up from the pastry she was rolling . |
| 8 | If you know the table 's going up in the air you know it 's time |
| 9 | Since there are no further hands rushing up into the air I 'll say a few words myself . |
| 10 | In my gybe , it seemed that by pulling up on the boom I was committing a lot of weight to the back which , although turning the board initially , caused it to lose speed through the turn . |
| 11 | Free time now means catching up with the things they have missed out on in the past : novels by Michael Moorcock and Toni Morrison , the new Australian cinema , opera cassettes borrowed from the public library , gardening and fishing , weekend trips to the landscapes of their respective childhoods . |
| 12 | Getting up from the table he groped his way down the furthest bay and replaced his book in the rack , leaning his forehead against the cold steel . |
| 13 | ‘ Coming up in the lift I met Mr Smithkins . |
| 14 | She said , ‘ I wonder if Albert 'll be waving up on the line I would , if I was him . ’ |
| 15 | On the day of his death he had done some clearing up at the home he shared with his mother , and refused tea before going out of the house unnoticed . |
| 16 | Penry smiled slowly , his eyes lighting up with the gleam she found so irresistible . |
| 17 | Curling up beneath the window she sank into gorgeous oblivion . |