Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pron] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was a proper But it was in his back yard , he was killing it and hanging it up in the window there . |
| 2 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
| 3 | They simplified the house , knocking down walls , adding bathrooms , and opening it up to the cool summer breezes from the sea . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | and getting them up from the cellars . |
| 6 | And holding them up for a little bit of erm laughter . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Taking the bag and holding it up towards the window , Bodie peered at the two slugs . |
| 9 | It carries edifying tales of four children and a dog finding an old shed and doing it up as a clubhouse . |
| 10 | Another devoted woman missionary , Phoebe England , did the professional training , while a third noble woman continued touring the other villages and linking them up with the training village . |
| 11 | I became very interested in the trade union movement and my first appointment was as a collector in collecting the union dues and taking them up to the union office . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ They 're certainly tearing things down and putting them up at the moment . |
| 14 | Regular users of it wrap the edges round wooden batons , secured with a few tacks , leaving these to rest on the ground , and rolling it up on the batons when the season is over . |
| 15 | This does n't help , setting it all down , discussing it , unravelling it and rolling it up like a dead tongue . |
| 16 | In the higher , hotter parts , the lava continually advances forward over this solid material , engulfing it and rolling it up like the tracks on a tank or caterpillar tractor . |
| 17 | ‘ I developed the pin curl looks about two years ago and have since changed the technique by dressing the hair more with back-combing and pinning it up for a more avant-garde finish . |
| 18 | ‘ But it 's a good life , ’ the Dodger said , taking some coins from his pocket and throwing them up in the air . |
| 19 | Their common lot was fierce parental discipline , even a man of a warm and kindly nature such as Samuel Pepys thought nothing of beating his 15-year-old maid with a broomstick , and locking her up for the night in his cellar , or whipping his boy-servant , or even boxing his clerk 's ears . |
| 20 | In addition , men often insisted on the " heavy " side of all these processes : asked to define the finishing processes , one employer 's representative listed " making up into pages and locking it up in the chase , which involves manual heavy labour , lifting and things of that kind — pulling proofs and what I call the heavier labour " . |
| 21 | Edberg stamped his world class authority on the match , dominating the 90 minute final and setting himself up for the defence of his Wimbledon title . |
| 22 | At the end of the ceremony she tottered off to the bus , looking as if she had every intention of popping in to the local when she got home and livening everyone up with a steady dropping of ‘ To think our ‘ Ilda should go before me ’ remarks . |
| 23 | This is done by asking an " open question " whose significance is not immediately apparent , and following it up with a supplementary . |
| 24 | I had enough breath left to shout that they should be ashamed of themselves , spitting out the dirt from my mouth , and working myself up into a state of high , excited indignation . |
| 25 | As these letters have had no discernible effect and The Awesome Three boys are still enjoying the odd night tying up white-clad virgins and offering them up to the Devil , the incensed mothers have now taken to writing to the band 's parents . |