Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] 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 | His trousers usually fell down a bit and he was observed to be always hitching them up by peculiar digs with his elbows . |
| 4 | A large spreadsheet can be made much easier to work with by breaking it up into logical pieces on several pages of a notebook . |
| 5 | It 's pleasanter than chopping him up in little pieces . |
| 6 | He kept a bedside diary giving her up to five stars a day for it . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I understand that Wyre Borough Council are standardising all the play equipment throughout the borough and bringing it up to British Standards safety requirements . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |