Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [v-ing] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A stolen refrigerated truck drives the wrong way up the autobahn — that was seen by a driver coming up the northbound lane — and Tweed 's Mercedes was somewhere not far ahead . |
| 2 | They pause , watching her long walk across the grass , a supplicant walking up the cathedral nave , she has a sense of awe , her hands are cold and damp in spite of the heat . |
| 3 | My master read these through carefully like a clerk marking up a ledger . |
| 4 | An example of such a clause is the following which was found in the Foreign Compensation Act 1950 , a statute setting up a body known as the Foreign Compensation Commission : ‘ The determination by the commission of any application made to them under this Act shall not be called in question in any court of law . ’ |
| 5 | I knew that I would get a lift on a boat going up the canal . |
| 6 | Some late night joy-riding fool of a soldier ripping up the beach with his big truck tyres ? |
| 7 | I could feel the different textures of wood , gravel and asphalt racing beneath my fingers as they came to rest on the road , and was terrified of a car coming up the cul-de-sac and smashing my hand . |
| 8 | I worked it out , from things Barbara Coleman told me , and I hitched a lift in a car going up the valley and walked the last mile or two . |
| 9 | Wherever there 's a cop beating up a guy , I 'll be there . |
| 10 | Jonathon Pendrous ; by day a cleaner clearing up the stage after other peoples ' glory , but by night when the actors have gone home , and the audience has left the theatre to its ghostly past … |
| 11 | It was a hard , uncompromising look , like a prize-fighter weighing up an opponent . |
| 12 | If I said to John and Joanne erm that I saw a boy running up the ginnel no you understand ? |
| 13 | Russian President Boris Yeltsin on April 11 issued a decree setting up an arms export commission , the aim of which would be to regulate and prevent the export of material and technology from Russia which might be used abroad in the manufacture of military hardware or weapons , including weapons of mass destruction . |
| 14 | She may take quite a while adding up the wine list . ’ |
| 15 | Fabia felt a nibble of excitement get to her as she ran a comb through her long golden hair , and even found that there were traces of a smile picking up the corners of her mouth . |
| 16 | Panic set in on the twelfth day when , after ‘ lifting ’ milk , a lorry picking up the churns stopped , the driver beckoning Harry . |
| 17 | First , through the City with a policeman holding up the traffic with an impassive countenance which implied that he would do the same for the Seventh Day Adventists , the Anti-Vivisection Society or the Paddington Communist Party . |
| 18 | So again in London we spent nearly a week setting up the microphones and rehearsing . |
| 19 | He 'd thought he did love her , until she went on worrying at it , thrashing it to and fro , churning up feelings like a dog digging up a bone . |
| 20 | The camera work is superb and I must especially commend to you all the final shots of the film which show a train heading up the Talerddig incline taken from a nearby hillside . |
| 21 | We went into my room and sat down on the floor together , and dried each other 's tears ; then I began to laugh a bit , ruefully , because I suddenly imagined how we must look , a hulking great coloured man and a girl sitting snivelling in front of a gas-fire mopping up the tears with dozens of paper hankies . |
| 22 | Can you see a lamb climbing up a wire fence ? |
| 23 | ‘ This equipment is like a lighthouse sweeping up the hydrocarbons from all around it , ’ he said . |
| 24 | There is no pronounced tug of any kind , just a tremor coming up the line that feels as though someone is drawing a hacksaw blade across it . |
| 25 | But whereas the faces all around were pale , or a smooth golden bronze from holidays chasing the winter sun , his was ruddy , weathered , the creases radiating from the eyes suggesting a life soaking up the glare of the sun and wind . |
| 26 | He stabbed a man scrambling up the bulwarks beside him , and cheered as Hector 's galleys swept up to the shore and another horde of Macleans poured from them to the rescue of their clansmen . |
| 27 | Britain , France , Belgium , the Netherlands and Luxembourg signed a treaty selling up the Brussels Treaty Organisation for mutual military aid . |
| 28 | As I leaned further I felt a hand sliding up the inside of my left thigh . |
| 29 | A protocol setting up a telecommunications network for high speed software data transmission was signed with France on Nov. 5 . |
| 30 | A little way along , I saw a path running up the bank to my left and on the top of this bank there was a rather eccentric mock-Gothic porchway . |