Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition most clubs organise a full programme of races over the season which , once you 've mastered the basics of sailing , can improve your skills very quickly by matching them up with other boats in the fleet . |
| 2 | Cork tiles are made by compressing the bark of the cork tree into a block , and then slicing it up into thin layers . |
| 3 | Consider a rebel stretch of human DNA that is capable of snipping itself out of its chromosome , floating freely in the cell , perhaps multiplying itself up into many copies , and then splicing itself into another chromosome . |
| 4 | No answer from me — if there was an Umpire , he would know what was in my heart — instead I gave myself orders , pumping myself up with little pecks of the head : Concentrate . |
| 5 | With more than a thousand videos at up to fifty pounds each and many more magazines fetching anything up to thirty pounds apiece this is the biggest haul ever for the Northants force . |
| 6 | His trousers usually fell down a bit and he was observed to be always hitching them up by peculiar digs with his elbows . |
| 7 | A large spreadsheet can be made much easier to work with by breaking it up into logical pieces on several pages of a notebook . |
| 8 | Alexander Technique : requiring anything up to twenty sessions with a trained teacher , this technique ( named after its originator F. M. Alexander ) concentrates on the correct alignment of the body which , in turn , leads to the elimination of physical and mental stresses . |
| 9 | Laura was cutting something up into small pieces , with a cookery book open in front of her . |
| 10 | It 's pleasanter than chopping him up in little pieces . |
| 11 | He kept a bedside diary giving her up to five stars a day for it . |
| 12 | ‘ The moment you go from the rigid and valuable discipline of German bank and people to mixing it up with other disciplines , other views , other ‘ let's have a bit of inflation here and there ’ economies , you lose the very thing which leads you to want to join . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The moment you go from the rigid and valuable discipline of German bank and people to mixing it up with other disciplines , other views , other ‘ let's have a bit of inflation here and there ’ economies , you lose the very thing which leads you to want to join . ’ |
| 14 | Somehow I must have missed the original LPs ( or perhaps they were never released this side of the Atlantic ) , but here are Jean-Pierre Rampal , Isaac Stern , Yo-Yo Ma mixing it up with Japanese instrumentalists , playing traditional oriental music alongside pieces by Yamada , Miyagi , and Yoshizawa , amongst others . |
| 15 | Whilst Jean was there , the women were spending anything up to twenty-three hours a day locked in their cells . |
| 16 | Still — I hope you enjoi reeding the buk as much as I 'm going to enjoi boiling it up with some vegtables and eeting it . |
| 17 | Not content with vamping it up in figure-skimming frocks with plunging cleavages and ribbon straps , we opt for the full dressing-up works , with long gloves , spindly stilettos , sparkling clutch bags and gleaming jewellery aplenty . |
| 18 | To Professor Radzinowicz and Barbara Wootton , both strong characters unaccustomed to taking no for an answer , any thorough re-examination of the concepts and purposes underlying the punishment and treatment of offenders in the light of modern knowledge of crime and its causes was worthless without a programme of research , including fieldwork by qualified staff , taking anything up to four years to complete . |
| 19 | However , given a reasonable state of preservation , you should come to no harm at Scourie ; and most days will see you happily tramping anything up to six miles , fishing perhaps a dozen different waters along the way , with golden eagle , red deer and curlew for company . |
| 20 | I understand that Wyre Borough Council are standardising all the play equipment throughout the borough and bringing it up to British Standards safety requirements . |
| 21 | Also , attorneys may be putting themselves up for huge amounts of emotional strain , knowing that their clients stand to lose more than their liberty . |
| 22 | One approach is to impose statutory reserve or cash requirements on banks and all other financial institutions , and then engage in tough open-market operations , possibly backing them up with special deposits ( again applied to all financial institutions ) . |
| 23 | Some caterpillars manage to startle their attackers by raising themselves up like small snakes . |
| 24 | All-glass tanks are available in a wide range of shapes and sizes some so huge that it is easy to doubt that such a fragile framework , only held together with silicone sealant and weighing anything up to 1000 kilos ( 2000 lb ) or more when filled and stocked , is capable of withstanding all the pressure without collapsing . |