Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven . |
| 3 | Rachaela had , again , the image of a man in a black cloak walking up the house wall . |
| 4 | ‘ What we wanted to tell you , ’ she continued , ‘ was that we'se goin' up the woods on Saturdee and we was wonderin' if you 'd come with us like . ’ |
| 5 | And all the hardware and systems companies that have made a precarious living gathering up the crumbs under IBM 's table . |
| 6 | In what seemed to him to be the far distance he could see Mariana and the President climbing up the meadow to meet him . |
| 7 | He 's just adjusting his outfit as he 's in the car driving up the Tadcaster road and he looks with horror . |
| 8 | A room vine climbing up the old chimney-breast … |
| 9 | From having the best midfield in the league it now seems to have gone distinctly limp — what price now Batty ( nice to see Battyburn keeping up the chase ) . |
| 10 | Patrick heard her little car passing up the avenue . |
| 11 | Though still it has all the marks of makeshift industrialisation and decline , with municipalism picking up the pieces , building endless estates of council houses . |
| 12 | Therefore , where the tread is below 1.6 mm depth in the middle of the tread and around the circumference of the tyre it is no good the defendant adding up the ‘ bits ’ on either side of the worn part to try to make a good three-quarters . |
| 13 | I knew that I would get a lift on a boat going up the canal . |
| 14 | There was scaffolding rearing up the face of the house from the front garden and , next to the front door , a large notice saying : |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Cross over this bridge and follow the broad trackway on the other side leading up the valley to Scandale Pass ( 3 miles ) . |
| 17 | Tracy , of Derwent Street , Darlington , yesterday recovering from her ordeal , said she was walking by herself to the video shop when she heard the car racing up the alley . |
| 18 | They travel to Nottingham Forest tomorrow for a game with a real edge to it , with Brian Clough 's side propping up the Premier League . |
| 19 | He could see slanting light pointing up the brave thrust of her breasts , emphasising the marvellous trough of her waist above the firm swell of her nates . |
| 20 | Some late night joy-riding fool of a soldier ripping up the beach with his big truck tyres ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Then she looked behind her and saw a carriage coming up the same hill that she had just climbed , with a man leading the horse . |
| 23 | there was a street light coming up the bloody |
| 24 | Share options are more attractive than outright share purchases because there is no risk of a loss being made by the employee taking up the option if share prices fall . |
| 25 | Colour Explosion from Revlon has vivid colours like Orange Fire and Vicacious Pink making up the range . |
| 26 | Joyce joined the advertising department as secretary in 1979 and moved to special projects eight years later to work in the department setting up the in-store coffee shops . |
| 27 | The Statute Setting up the State Asset Agency |
| 28 | And the Government is likely to spend the Christmas break weighing up the political options before deciding what to do next . |
| 29 | ‘ And what 's to stop this dame tanking up the deal later ? |
| 30 | He waited , the hair crisping up the back of his head . |