Example sentences of "[v-ing] up and [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is seen with Paris , whom she has persuaded to stay in Troy while his companions fight ; and Pandarus is also present , soaking up and intensifying the sensual atmosphere . |
| 2 | Once seated in Huy 's living room , Merymose relaxed , but only a little , and he could not remain in his chair long , but kept getting up and pacing the narrow space between the front door and the rear wall . |
| 3 | All over the world we are rising up and refusing the exploited identity for which we were conditioned . |
| 4 | The role of rhetoric becomes crucial here — it serves to keep the flow of foreign funds from drying up and to disguise the endemic problems of implementation of these projects . |
| 5 | Though apparently divorced from ‘ Cultural Progress ’ as related to the Basutu , which Eliot was also considering in 1936 , his idea of poetic drama was part of the same concern with embodying and strengthening what he had always associated with ideas of culture and community and which his dealings with the ‘ lower races ’ had helped to teach him : the need for art linked to religious ritual as a central value summing up and sustaining the social values of a culture . |