Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] up [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LOCAL AUTHORITIES drawing up plans for the community care reforms will have to consult with the private and voluntary sector , the new Department of Health guidelines say . |
| 2 | I just do n't want to see similar signs appearing up mountains as hill-walking grows more popular Where would it all end ? |
| 3 | Aunt Margaret was bird-like herself , in her hither-and-thither movements and a certain gesture she had of nodding her head like a sparrow picking up crumbs . |
| 4 | The harbour was filled with sleek , modern yachts berthed in front of countless restaurants serving up pizzas ( Italy is only 50 miles from Corsica 's east coast ) or fresh fish caught that morning . |
| 5 | All four Scouts sported minor shuriken wounds , swiftly healed , their cinnabar blood closing up gashes like sealing wax . |
| 6 | Scotland Yard detectives have been visiting the Falklands digging up corpses of Argentine soldiers amid allegations that they were executed by British troops and that in some cases ears were cut off as war ‘ trophies ’ in the 1982 conflict . |
| 7 | There were regular news reports of Hooligan gangs smashing up coffee-stalls and public houses , robbing and assaulting old ladies , attacking foreigners and setting upon policeman in the streets . |
| 8 | I have a vision of resident tutors beating up classes with the cheerful persistence of a sports organiser on a trans-Atlantic liner ; of extra-mural directors deploying their forces through the English countryside , themselves deciding what classes are suitable for the people of Swindon and Banbury and Slough ; of district organisers calling on mill hands in the remotest dales of Yorkshire with the regularity of the man who collects the rent … |
| 9 | Messrs Rudd and McGowan motored through the recession snapping up bargains and transformed Williams Holdings into a FTSE 100 company . |
| 10 | He says that they 've had a three man gang picking up peoples rubbish for the last seven years . |
| 11 | My wilful grasp upon it had been entirely unproblematic , as sure as neat fingers picking up pins , or knitting , and then casting off the atomic stitches of the material world . |
| 12 | He felt around inside , his long fingers picking up scraps of parchment . |
| 13 | WHO are more preposterous : the developers marching round southern England drawing up plans to turn some of the world 's most pleasing countryside into toytown suburbs ; or the nouveau-rural Volvo commuters looking for trendy ways to stop them ? |
| 14 | Her topic was jealousy which she attributed to parents bringing up children to think they are unlovable . |
| 15 | Four baby elephants are trundling along the dry ground in the blazing African sun , their feet brushing up clouds of dust . |
| 16 | In agricultural districts school attendance registers showed poor attendance at harvest time when girls of ten or eleven were set to work picking up stones in the fields . |
| 17 | His captain , volatile as any ice-hockey player , was equally distracted , his aggressive posture conjuring up visions of the Perth nightmare when , unforgivably booted by Lillee , Miandad raised a retaliatory bat which , only by the grace of God , abandoned its journey towards Lillee 's head . |
| 18 | Ha er a man on the hatch , t to tell the crane driver what to do or where to go , well you w you would have four men in the hold making up slings of timber . |
| 19 | The new industries that had sprung up in Kingston 's poorer areas making up clothes from pre-cut American cloth to export back to the US relied on cheap female labour . |
| 20 | Riven was already thinking of bright hearths and warm beds as they made their way along the summits , following Bicker in single file now , their mounts ' hoofs throwing up bobbles of snow that were swept away into the air as quickly as they were kicked up . |
| 21 | Although ‘ change ’ perhaps suggests dynamism and enthusiasm — in keeping with a successful Club — the energy did not always stretch to the players on the course , for here complaints of slow play were regularly made , doubtless aggravated by televised golf tournaments in which players spent many minutes lining up putts . |
| 22 | Based on the Marvel comic of the same name and filmed back in 1988 , it 's the usual uncomplicated but enjoyable mix of demolition derby and fuck you one-liners , which features Dolph as a leather-clad psycho-avenger tearing up nightclubs with huge guns , using his karate skills on mob bosses and riding round city sewers on his Harley . |
| 23 | This guy has a business picking up fossils and selling them ? |
| 24 | Not really well we the Blackstone engineer fitting up engines , he stayed with us for a while to show us the ropes like you know . |
| 25 | Could we have a board game called The Yorkshire Ripper where you throw dice to travel around the red-light areas of Yorkshire picking up points for prostitutes encountered on the way ? |
| 26 | I 'm kept up ‘ til early morning by the sound of people in the next room chopping up lines . |
| 27 | Men who had formed associations to go hill-walking , cycling , even mountaineering , clutching pamphlets like Initial Efforts on the Boulder Face , or Coping with Crevices , and spent long days toiling up braes and free-wheeling down glens , now had a wage to earn . |
| 28 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 29 | When Marcus came in for supper , two hours later , Daniel 's Mum was still talking , to Stephanie , who was in and out of the kitchen dishing up vegetables and making gravy , to her son , who moved his weight cautiously from time to time on a dining-room chair and frowned and frowned . |
| 30 | Downing Street officials work late into the night drawing up plans to tell the Commons , the nation and the world that Charles and Diana can no longer bear to live together . |