Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [v-ing] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good deal of money has been made tarting up riverside and bank top pubs to take account of the new ambiance and to cater to the non-industrial affluent . |
| 2 | Parties have been seen flying up the Channel , presumably on migration , twice in April ( 4th , 1961 , and 7th , 1969 ) , and once in March ( 30th , 1971 ) . |
| 3 | And a cinnamon and blue nuthatch had been seen creeping up the trunk of a tree towards its mud-patched nesting hole , giving one lad a splendid chance to try out his new birthday present telescope . |
| 4 | They are shown moving up the figure and their RNR increases . |
| 5 | Numbers vary , but up to 650 birds have been noted passing up the Channel in a spring , and movements of 50 to 100 birds in a day are an annual event ; 234 flying east off Beachy Head on 15 April 1968 is the largest single movement noted . |
| 6 | Around £300,000 a year has been spent patching up its ageing landing stage . |
| 7 | The train could now be heard coming up the bank . |
| 8 | In the night he might be heard running up and down his attic bedroom banging the wall at each end , and keeping other people awake . |
| 9 | As with all Cirrhilabrus species , scottorum is principally a zooplankton feeder in the wild , and may be seen rising up in aggregations , composed mainly of females and juveniles , from the bottom to a metre or more when actively feeding , but in aquarium conditions it will take a variety of foods and readily adapt to a regular feeding programme . |
| 10 | Yet around the time that Servan-Schreiber was receiving his first royalty cheques , oriental faces could be seen popping up behind the walls at the Isle of Man TT races . |
| 11 | On four other occasions Eubank was to be seen covering up under a hail of blows , but like so much of the 26-year-old from Brighton 's act , it was an illusion . |
| 12 | They can often be seen climbing up creosoted telegraph-poles in a vain search for food . |
| 13 | And if you can be bothered staying up for this , it will take you through to 6am tomorrow . |
| 14 | A COWBOY who spent the last six years of his life in a wheelchair got his dying wish , to be buried standing up with his boots on . |
| 15 | At other times , the demands of his body clock and society coincided but then much of his time would be spent catching up on lost sleep . |
| 16 | Two hours of every night can be spent backing up data : Miller demands System 10 improve this by an order of magnitude . |
| 17 | Two hours of every night can sometimes be spent backing up data : Miller demands System 10 improve this by an order of magnitude . |
| 18 | The drafters of the 1533 act can readily be imagined looking up the statute of Richard II which referred to ‘ varlets called yeomen ’ in the service of lords — the Canon 's Yeoman no less . |
| 19 | Blades can be fitted pointing up or down , should you need , for instance , to cut up into plasterboard , instead of inverting the saw . |
| 20 | She , after all , had been left holding up the universe over the parents , and in all probability , whatever strict injunctions he issued now , she would , by the time he rejoined her , have relieved him of the most dreadful of all the duties his office laid on him , and somehow , with sense , sedatives and sturdy , unpretending sympathy , have gone part-way towards reconciling the bereaved to their bereavement . |
| 21 | Fist fights at the team 's base camp at Dunblane Hydro , a bender in Perth where two players were caught pissing up a close next to the town 's ‘ Shanghai Takeaway ’ , a euphoric send-off at Hampden Park , followed by defeat against Peru , a disgraceful match with Iran , a drug scandal and a piece of eleventh-hour magic which nearly overwhelmed the beaten finalists Holland . |
| 22 | ‘ You were seen walking up St Giles ’ towards North Oxford , just after lunch yesterday . |
| 23 | This was a land where the pursuit of illusion possessed the artists ; where awkward tries at perspective were made , and revellers in scenes of feasting were shown sitting up on one elbow , on daybeds with legs disposed for the first time in recession . |
| 24 | The mornings of Sunday and Monday were spent setting up the arena , putting in some dance and fight practice , and generally preparing for the show before the pre-show meeting . |
| 25 | Fires were started and there was looting after not guilty verdicts were pronounced on four white policemen who were filmed beating up a black man . |
| 26 | The most common complaint , however , was that the projects were n't working ; results had n't turned out as hoped , essential equipment had proved faulty ( or in some eases had n't arrived ) and students were left writing up why their project had n't worked out . |
| 27 | Temporary agreements were signed setting up councils of heads of state and of heads of government . |
| 28 | Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high . |
| 29 | GIRA SIC stated that it was a reflection of the UK market that McDonald 's delayed setting up its own franchise scheme in the UK . |
| 30 | As long-haired ‘ Hap ’ , one of a pair of beatnik lovers , wearing a polo-neck sweater and a raincoat , Dustin 's 45-second moment comes when he is seen breaking up with his girlfriend ( Mariclare Costello ) before she wanders off to be almost grabbed by the preying Wallach . |