Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had forgotten all about arranging for a taxi to pick him up or looking up bus times or anything like that . |
| 2 | So-called ‘ gun ’ microphones are well-known tools for bugging distant conversations or picking up sound from a point source in a crowded room or studio . |
| 3 | or grubbing up fern roots with her beak . |
| 4 | Most can still afford a new potato peeler or washing up bowl if someone bothers to deliver them . |
| 5 | This will involve either freezing income tax allowances or putting up VAT . |
| 6 | And that ma of course erm posed problems for people just getting married or setting up home or people who had lost their homes due to bombing . |
| 7 | Tomorrow night on Central News South we meet the Rover Group 's man in America , Graham Morris , and there 's new about what might lie in store for British people thinking of emigrating or setting up business in this . |
| 8 | These included promoting energy conservation and efficiency ; placing tighter controls on fossil fuel emissions ; and stepping up research into alternative energy sources . |
| 9 | Gregory works on the technical side , liaising with the sound and lighting people and drawing up set lists . |
| 10 | And building up muscle demands something else again , several repetitions of medium intensity . |
| 11 | It is a wonderful way of assuring the presence of core stock and building up stock in Dillons stores . |
| 12 | One of them was his habitual slowness , especially in handling and totting up cash ; for , before he took up duties in the foreign exchange department of Lloyds in the semi-basement room at the branch at 20 King William Street ( no wonder that the eyes and back , at the end of the day , turned ‘ upward ’ from the desk ) , he worked for a period behind the counter . |
| 13 | These could include promising to join the European Monetary System and mopping up liquidity by , for example , special banking deposit rates . |
| 14 | I could hear Jamie and the girl running after me shouting , but I was already past the old chip shop and the war memorial and picking up speed . |
| 15 | Over the hill and picking up speed ! |
| 16 | Over the hill and picking up speed ! |
| 17 | Mountain streams are usually the longest , originating from springs on high ground and picking up ground water and tributaries as they descend . |
| 18 | So it is the dietary fibre which has the slowing down and filling up effect . |
| 19 | The programme is divided into three phases : in 1992-94 , it will focus on developing substitutes for chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) ; in 1995-97 , it will concentrate on cleaning up sewage and industrial waste water , and cleaning up sulphur emissions from power stations ; in the final phase , 1998-2001 , waste incineration and cutbacks on carbon dioxide emissions have priority . |
| 20 | nought point ten and going up point two of a second , that is fast ! |
| 21 | ‘ We were leaving a bar which had ripped us off and Simon started giggling and piling up pot plants from the window boxes all over our car . |
| 22 | He was not sure how she would take it , leaving the house before they had intended and moving up north ; also , in the last few years he had got into the habit of sparing her any unnecessary decisions or arguments . |
| 23 | Andy Hyslop added Mid Air Collision E5 6b ( F7b ) taking a line crossing Cyborg and finishing up Flight Path . |
| 24 | Sessions begin with the children taking the initiative and deciding what toys or activity they want and parents are invited to join in such things as organising the dolls ' house , making sand pies , playing with trains , building houses , mixing paints and cutting up paper . |
| 25 | One childless career woman described the scene when she discussed having a child and giving up work for a while . |
| 26 | it 's reacting and taking up oxygen . |
| 27 | I mean it is it is genuinely part of the definition but the definition they had originally has got stretched and stretched so now it it does n't there 's no obvious tie up with oxidation , meaning burning and taking up oxygen , and reduction is the of opposite , so if you get the oxygen out or you put hydrogen in or where it gains electrons . |
| 28 | The scale can be illustrated by the fact that 30 years ago our young people were maturing at a later stage than now , but in many cases were leaving school at an earlier age and taking up employment — the gap between adolescence and employment was perhaps only 12 months . |
| 29 | Do n't forget the landslip had taken place only that morning , Orrie Benyon was just cordoning off the dangerous area and putting up warning notices . |
| 30 | He had called in a local firm of builders to carry out the essential brickwork , plastering and re-tiling on the roof ; after that , he took a hand in the redecoration personally , splashing on new paint and putting up wallpaper . |