Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate .
2 Rather , it first , made full divorce somewhat easier and cheaper , opening it up to the upper middle class , second , made judicial separation more expensive and more rare ; and third , continued to deny the poor access to either .
3 They simplified the house , knocking down walls , adding bathrooms , and opening it up to the cool summer breezes from the sea .
4 People sent their daughters to Cambridge School , dressing them up in the toffee-brown and pale-blue uniform Elizabeth Jarvis had selected .
5 When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead .
6 Lapping it up like a weak kitten , ’ thought Fergus .
7 He was saving it up for a rainy day .
8 We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’
9 An architectural Gone With The Wind with Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara hamming it up across the Grand Canal .
10 The 34-year-old former Liverpool and Blackburn star has been unable to fix himself up with another club since the summer , but the Robins ' boss is lining him up for a reserve game against Walsall next week .
11 And holding them up for a little bit of erm laughter .
12 He was wearing an apron which made him look like a housewife , and tinkering with glass eyes , taking them out of a box and holding them up to the empty sockets of the dead bird , trying to find a matching pair that fitted .
13 Then , after carefully taking off his heavy rings , he picked each of the tiles up in turn , holding them up by the extreme edge .
14 Then , with great bravado , she attacked the pile of pine-needles , scooping them up between the giant clutch of her karaso and her own small hand , depositing them in another heap that she was building on top of the rope .
15 These group-living females show remarkable degrees of social tolerance and sometimes take up residence in large , communal nests , carrying all their kittens in there and piling them up in a huge , squirming mass .
16 She made no protest when Travis removed her boots and jumper , nor when he lay down beside her , turning her so that they lay spoon-fashion before zipping them up into the quilted cocoon .
17 And wished he had n't because , two weeks later , Donald was holding him up with a sawn-off shotgun for an hour and a half .
18 It was now obvious that the horse was a stayer and yet Harry Short 's stable jockey had recently ridden him as if his best distance was six furlongs , holding him up for a late run .
19 When the balance is correct then you just sit and ride forward with your legs closed gently round the horse riding him up to a soft contact on the reins .
20 The microwave chimed and she hauled a still half-frozen block of chilli out on a big plate ; she started breaking it up with a large wooden spoon .
21 The alternatives would seem to be handing General Noriega to the US forces to face trial on drug-trafficking charges , which the Vatican has said it will not do , or giving him up to the new Panamanian Government , which has already declared it ‘ has enough on him to put Noriega away for life ’ .
22 As the girl played the woman dilated her nostrils and rose slightly off the piano stool , as if someone was drawing her up by an invisible wire attached to the crown of her head .
23 And then , so gently that she was hardly aware of what was happening — as if she was merely swaying with the tide — he gradually pulled her towards the shore , slowly drawing her up against the bare , damp skin of his broad chest .
24 Not only will I be dealing with some of your concerns through ‘ Vet 's Corner ’ , but I am taking them up with the very people who make the food — with some eye-opening results !
25 Grumbling under his breath at the lateness of the hour , and the fact that he was missing an important baseball game on TV , the super — who appeared to be of Polish extraction — nevertheless insisted on taking them up in an antiquated , dangerously shaky lift .
26 Let's see , from the top and grossing it up on a worldwide basis , it 's roughly fifty for the visor , two hundred for shirts and sweaters , just under fifty for the golf gloves , and a hundred for the trousers . ’
27 I am still very shaken and will be taking it up with the American authorities . ’
28 When they paused near one of these villages to rest the horses the Collector remained in the carriage and watched the men drawing water from the well , drawing it up in a huge leather bag with the help of their bullocks , and he knew that the same two men and two bullocks would do this every day until the end of their lives .
29 he likes putting it up outside the front door and put these lights on it .
30 This does n't help , setting it all down , discussing it , unravelling it and rolling it up like a dead tongue .
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