Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] up [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearby , fishermen sort their nets before hanging them up to dry in the tall net ‘ shops ’ that are unique to Hastings ; and delicious fresh fish is always available from the fishmarket . |
| 2 | She kept phoning me up to tell me about Crowded House tickets and that she could n't get any . |
| 3 | But I 've accepted it as fate that people are building me up to knock me down . |
| 4 | He spent weeks nerving himself up to get a big whale picture , or maybe a dolphin . |
| 5 | It looks like she 's nerving herself up to step forward . |
| 6 | At the start of the decade the 2-Tone bands were keeping everybody up to scratch about racism , and by the end of it a member of Duran Duran had bought himself a house in South Africa . |
| 7 | where they 're talking about spending money on a one of these old old cage drillers , tooling it up to drill cages at . |
| 8 | Radio assault : A team from South Cleveland Hospital Radio are gearing themselves up to tackle a tough army assault course . |
| 9 | Two key objectives : establishing a network and investigator bringing himself up to speed on the French plastic cards and payment systems market . |
| 10 | I can understand like you picking one up to get rid of it if you 're not scared of it , but playing with one , keeping it as a pet ! |
| 11 | My eyes prickle with tears , and I have to stop myself from waking her up to remind her of my love . |
| 12 | Looking back at the crowd at the foot of the great stone double staircase , she suddenly caught sight of the familiar blonde head of her daughter and called the nursemaid , who was holding her up to get a better view of all the excitement , to bring her over . |
| 13 | I was wearing I had the , the stethoscope behind my neck and I took it off for something , I was holding it up to try and get a better |
| 14 | Gesner moved to mask her again , and once more she darted round the screen , suddenly making great play with the peacock tail , holding it up to hide the lower part of her face , managing to pretend never to see the front of Luxembourg 's face , and never to let him see her . |
| 15 | What happened was I happened to be in the corridors there and the gentleman came in , that 's on the Friday afternoon , gentleman came in and asked to see the Headmaster , so I took him along to see who was the Headmaster then , and erm shortly after that I was called up to see and erm asked me if I 'd like to apply for this job because had seen me erm bringing me up to , bringing him up to see and he said erm , well what about that young fella who brought me up there and would he like to apply . |
| 16 | Then all at once he was taking her hand and drawing her up to stand before him . |
| 17 | Levering himself up to sit back on his heels and pulling her easily with him , he lifted her on to his lap , so that she found herself straddling him , her naked breasts pressed against the sensuous roughness of his chest , with only thin swimming costumes protecting her from ultimate intimacy . |
| 18 | if it brakes down there 's there 's taking it up to top sprocket so it comes off you see . |
| 19 | First , it was the gradual transformation of woodlands and grasslands into farmland , and then years later building it up to accommodate the ever-growing influx of people . |
| 20 | It is not even a question of reducing the time spent on formal aspects of the language system and squeezing them up to make room for a newcomer . |
| 21 | I would n't keep lifting them up to see how they were doing , and I 'd be pretty hesitant about pruning them too . |
| 22 | He looked back at her a moment , then reached down and took her left hand in his own , lifting it up to study it . |
| 23 | Remember , you 're building yourself up to peak performance on the day of the exam . |
| 24 | In Get Richie Quick ! , the hero 's ex-wife Lola asks him to find some missing family documents and turns out to be setting him up to take the blame for a series of axe murders she 's been committing since she was six years old . |
| 25 | All the relevant facts were before the two magistrates who were weighing them up to decide whether it was more likely than not that there was prejudice and unfairness that led to an abuse of the process . |
| 26 | Having bought a potentially viable holding , you must plan a programme for working it up to meet your aspirations . |
| 27 | They were working themselves up to do it . |