Example sentences of "[v-ing] up the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 24-year-old sweeper will lose three days ’ wages for deserting his father 's electrical business to take on the infinitely more difficult job of shoring up the leakiest defence in international soccer . |
| 2 | Just as many equality feminists opposed shoring up the traditional family at the beginning of the century , so present-day Labour has been challenged internally time and time again — and externally by the women 's and lesbians and gay liberation movements — on its sexual politics . |
| 3 | In this chapter we will channel our energies into opening up the contradictory facets of our personalities and explore the different voices , different tones of voice , that these contradictions make available to us . |
| 4 | It does , however , make it more likely to happen , and facilitates this by opening up the political space in which local differentiation can occur . |
| 5 | However he ruled out opening up the political system to a number of parties , insisting that national unity must be achieved first . |
| 6 | As Hennessy was opening up the grey lockers at the end of the room , Donaldson spelt Bobo again . |
| 7 | Pioneering scientific work is now opening up the immense diversity of sensory worlds experienced by other creatures : extraordinary worlds which we may never be able to enter , but which we can at least start to appreciate through our awareness of animal " supersenses " . |
| 8 | So I am encouraged in my perhaps natural naïveté , I am encouraged to be simpliste , by my knowledge of the value of complication in fogging up the real issues in politics . |
| 9 | Whether it is the Lusitania steaming up the Irish coast towards her doom or a couple of one-legged dwarfs drinking in a bar in Paris , the processes of imagination in the form of characters , clothes , setting , and action are all clawed out of the mind . |
| 10 | He was wiring up the main hatch above the hold , in such a way that showed he was certainly not an electrician by trade , with the intention of giving a mild electric shock to anyone who might try to get into it . |
| 11 | It is a familiar , yet penetrating , criticism of free market economies that the imperatives companies face to satisfy the adolescent greed of the financial markets and the escalating expectations of shareholders — or else prepare for predators — has diminished the scope of strategic planning to buffing up the next set of interims . |
| 12 | Suddenly I was climbing up the long ladder of the North pier , the rucksack being roped afterwards . |
| 13 | This exercise is brilliant for toning up the loose skin under the chin . |
| 14 | The iron melts , picking up the correct amount of carbon from the coke , and runs out of the tap-hole at the bottom . ’ |
| 15 | Juliette bent down and began picking up the smashed pieces of china . |
| 16 | The reception had told her the Scottish Football team were residents in the hotel which increased her hopes of picking up the odd tip in order to ease her way through University . |
| 17 | ‘ What on earth do you mean ? ’ asked her mother aggressively , picking up the nearest dress to hand . |
| 18 | Ninety per cent of people in residential care in Newcastle are on income support and the average time to death or discharge in residential care is three years , so his department will be picking up the whole burden by the third year . |
| 19 | Because i it is assumed management is learned by picking up the bad habits of your predecessor and their predecessors for the last five hundred years . |
| 20 | As he went up behind her , step by step , eyes fixed on the sensuous movements of her dark young limbs , he half noticed the seemingly inordinate number of doors which opened on to the landings and he could not avoid picking up the predominating odour of curry . |
| 21 | She lay , tense and unrelaxed , soaking up the surprising strength of the autumn sun while the Portuguese Grand Prix was run on the testing Estoril track . |
| 22 | The consequence of that is that we 've seen a continuation of road-building schemes which have caused considerable damage to the countryside , devastated communities and have no real hope of soaking up the so-called demand for new roads . |
| 23 | He skimmed the accompanying text , which added little to what Francesca had already told him , filling up the two columns with a recital of Tristram 's career beginning with his legendary recording of ‘ Panis Angelicus ’ as a thirteen-year-old treble at St Joe 's . |
| 24 | However , the adoption of this policy alone does not solve the problem of making optimal use of the volume , because filling up the highest part of the nave with habitable accommodation arranged on one or several storeys deprives the lower-level spinal space of the church of natural light . |
| 25 | Compare two recollections : Delicate motes of movement tiptoeing up the curving sabre-slash of Serenity Crack in Yosemite . |
| 26 | Mind you , I mean there 's no point they 'll be looking up the first word of each of these |
| 27 | PAUL McGRATH is lining up the ultimate act of revenge against former boss Alex Ferguson — by snatching the title away from the Manchester United manager . |
| 28 | ANALYSTS and advisers were yesterday lining up the next series of state asset sales and trying to see how the Government could increase the projected £19 billion over the next three years to reduce borrowing and fund tax cuts . |
| 29 | We instantly felt the week was getting off to a good start , a feeling reinforced by waking up the following morning to new , slightly heavy snow . |
| 30 | He did n't elaborate , despite Mandy 's turning up the full voltage of her green eyes to show that she was interested . |