Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 2 | ‘ Lapping it up like a weak kitten , ’ thought Fergus . |
| 3 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And holding them up for a little bit of erm laughter . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This does n't help , setting it all down , discussing it , unravelling it and rolling it up like a dead tongue . |
| 14 | Following it up with a barbaric dose of guitar pop like ‘ Kennedy ’ would have seen off any new-found ‘ fans ’ and old faithfuls would have welcomed back their indie darlings at the drop of a balalaika . |
| 15 | ‘ Your work is still creating interest , and the women of the Fabian Society are talking of following it up with a scientific examination of the social and economic condition of the women in the poorer parts of London , carrying on where Booth in his great survey of poverty left off . ’ |
| 16 | They mentioned that you and Anna walked a hundred miles and that you were following it up with a heavy date . |
| 17 | This is done by asking an " open question " whose significance is not immediately apparent , and following it up with a supplementary . |