Example sentences of "and [v-ing] up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I called out that we were ready , but there was no answer , and when I returned to the bedroom I found her lying back full length on the bed , her eyes open and gazing up at the ceiling with that same vacant stare . |
| 2 | Well , it 's good to be back on the list and catching up on the mountain of messages . |
| 3 | Anyway they would land down at our place most weekends , because we used to take the Darlington and Stockton Times , and they would all be smoking their pipes and talking , asking , ‘ What hast thou fresh , now ’ and catching up on the comings and goings of Baldersdale . |
| 4 | The water , flooding over the pastures in winter and oozing up through the summer marshes , held the key to these balanced systems . |
| 5 | Every time he went into one of those phone-booths , he had a mental image of something going wrong , of a faster-than-usual trace , of a plain-clothes policeman being only a few yards away , taking the alarm on his personal radio and walking up to the phone-booth . |
| 6 | It 's debatable whether PGA is the best golf game , but it 's certainly the easiest to get into without the fuss of reading pages of instructions and swatting up on the physics of the humble golf ball . |
| 7 | On the academic site , detailed tephrachronology makes it possible to study patterns in the behaviour of volcanoes — the magma erupted from one volcano may become steadily more acid , or it may show cyclical changes , or it may even vary consistently during each eruption , starting off fairly basic and ending up at the close of the eruption much more acid . |
| 8 | Flying through the sea breeze front without realising it is a common cause of inadvertently landing downwind and ending up in a hedge . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not surprised ! ’ the other girl agreed sympathetically , having just heard from Laura the full story of her traumatic outing , which had culminated in her being arrested and ending up in the New York police station . |
| 10 | Beautiful cover showing a window opening into the past for this time travel tale about an Oxford student stepping back into the Middle Ages to finish her thesis and ending up in the middle of the plague . |
| 11 | In Kuwait it is just that we by the way in Kuwait we have two courts , we have the civil courts and we have the Islamic court , and erm Islamic cases go to the Islamic court and otherwise they go to the civil court , except just we we accept erm how to live our live in a modern way and keeping up with the times , and it is a tradition that we have adopted in Kuwait , and the fact that it is for women can drive in Kuwait versus those that do n't in Saudi Arabia , I do n't believe I 'd like to put that in the Islamic context , it 's just a way of life which we have adopted . |
| 12 | We want something better than just money and keeping up with the Joneses . |
| 13 | I have done this myself , to ideal effect , getting into the car on a sunless July morning and driving up to the road tunnel of Bielsa , some dozen miles beyond Saint-Lary . |
| 14 | Once the veneer of hunt balls and dressing up for the occasion is stripped away all you have left is a very cruel activity which is a disgrace to those of us who live in the modern world . |
| 15 | It is possible that the origin is naval and dates from the 16th Century when ‘ sucking the monkey ’ described the tapping and topping up of a coconut with rum before the milk mix was sucked from it . |
| 16 | Thus there is no evidence as yet for any imaginative creation , development and writing up of a range of stories within the English fabliau corpus . |
| 17 | But lying there beside her , listening to the susurration of the tide and looking up at the sky through a haze of grasses he was filled , not with post-coital sadness , but with an agreeable languor as if the long-committed Sunday afternoon still stretched ahead of them . |
| 18 | ‘ So I 've heard , ’ answered George , rolling onto his back and looking up at the sky , while he chewed a stalk of grass . |
| 19 | And I 'd stand there , easing my aching back , and looking up at the stars . |
| 20 | ‘ I wonder where Barbs is ? ’ said Tim , stopping and looking up at the bedroom windows . |
| 21 | Naps during the daytime and waking up during the night would both increase ; these changes are often observed . |
| 22 | Maureen West says her daughter is still having nightmares and waking up in the middle of the night . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd always had a fantasy about living with an artist and waking up in the morning and him standing there with a canvas . |
| 24 | Director PAUL VERHOEVEN tells EDWARD MURPHY about courting controversy and growing up in a nightmare , while KIM NEWMAN casts an eye over the overblown finished product |
| 25 | Sex and cigarettes were the main things , and going up to the Youth Centre to smash the legs off the table-tennis tables . |
| 26 | Along the top of the bank was the Ben Tee path , leading to a stile and wending up by the burn — rather than towards the peak — so I just headed over the dried-out moor for the steady ascent to the summit . |
| 27 | Nicholas it is in front Amiganamore and racing up towards the line , and it 's Nicholas , the maestro is back . |
| 28 | Nicholas it is in front , in front of Amigamanore and racing up towards the line , and it 's Nicholas , the maestro is back , he 's come back with that Nicholas . |
| 29 | " Hollo ! " he boomed , and sidling up to the visitor , tried to take his hand . |
| 30 | In the early morning , waking up to a fierce easterly wind and a leaden sea , the children gathered in the dining room to find snow fluttering through the rafters and piling up over the breakfast plates . |