Example sentences of "[v-ing] up and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was Japan recognizing herself as one country among many , balancing domestic priorities and concerns against the demands of the broader international order , opening up and adjusting her internal arrangements to effect a more cosmopolitan perspective ? |
| 2 | The fact that there may indeed be real risks attached to opening up and talking from the heart is not in dispute , just as the limitations on teachers ' freedom are very real . |
| 3 | Besides opening up and retaining choice of educational placement for pupils with severe visual handicaps , evidence of this kind calls for continuing research into the social aspects of integration for such pupils . |
| 4 | It must have been hard bringing up three children on your own whilst leading such an insecure existence , opening up and closing down galleries ? |
| 5 | Never late Jo is , half-past eight sharp like a bloody train steaming up and come on Maggie for Christ 's sake they close the nursery doors at nine you should know that by now . |
| 6 | It concerns an executive who passed a mental hospital on his way to work and stopped occasionally to watch an inmate going through the motions of winding up and pitching an imaginary ball . |
| 7 | The liquidator or a creditor of the company is able to apply to the court to decide upon any question arising in the winding up and to exercise those which the court might exercise in a winding up by the court . |
| 8 | It may be worth replacing putty ; squaring up and rehanging sagging casements and toplights completely if the frames themselves are sound . |
| 9 | After tackling up and laying your baitboxes , landing net etc , around you , and sinking your keepnet in deep-enough water , you should still have a reasonable amount of daylight left to assess your surroundings . |
| 10 | But I want to take my time over tackling up and savouring the prospect of the sport I hope to enjoy . |
| 11 | ‘ Unhand me , sir , ’ she cried , leaping up and throwing herself hysterically into Samuel 's arms . |
| 12 | Thus when the chimpanzee , supplied in the laboratory with two boxes and a stick to reach a suspended bunch of bananas , stops leaping up and trying the reach them with its hands and instead puts one box on top of the other , climbs up and dislodges the bananas with the stick , it is using to the full its basic ability to suppress the automatic response — leaping up — in favour of the intelligent one — climbing up and reaching with the stick . |
| 13 | But he had to restrain himself from leaping up and switching the light off and peering out into the street from behind the curtains . |
| 14 | Hector was before her , leaping up and barking at his mistress . |
| 15 | Wizzo ! ’ yelled Zach , leaping up and running out of the kitchen , ‘ Calloo , calloo , calloo , callay . ’ |
| 16 | so I thought while he 's up there rather than me walking up and walking back , cos that would be too much exercise |
| 17 | Thus when the chimpanzee , supplied in the laboratory with two boxes and a stick to reach a suspended bunch of bananas , stops leaping up and trying the reach them with its hands and instead puts one box on top of the other , climbs up and dislodges the bananas with the stick , it is using to the full its basic ability to suppress the automatic response — leaping up — in favour of the intelligent one — climbing up and reaching with the stick . |
| 18 | Even though they have very little sight , it does n't stop the children climbing up and touching everything . |
| 19 | Learn to recognise which areas are toning up and reducing . |
| 20 | By simply picking up and moving the categories ' names with the mouse I can reverse their positions and totally rebuild the worksheet … |
| 21 | It 's proved a good way of picking up and pigeonholing the plight of the young middle classes living in a country in retreat . |
| 22 | More than 20 plasterers were resident in Bristol in these years and what seems to have happened was that the two Tyndalls brooded over rolls of Chinese wallpaper and popular books of decorative devices like The Modern Builder 's Assistant ( 1757 ) , picking up and choosing the themes and the motifs that pleased them . |
| 23 | England 's management turned white when scrum-half Garth Wright drove his pack on the offensive , crushing England on a five metre scrum with Richter picking up and plonking down without hindrance . |
| 24 | It 's not only a working instrument but the kind of guitar that you feel like picking up and playing at any time ; when it 's not wowing the punters it will probably spend its time lying on the sofa permanently on call . |
| 25 | We start by picking up and examining the cube . |
| 26 | One visiting history adviser looking at a display of old washing equipment got the infants to explain by picking up and examining an old flat iron , looking for the flex and asking " But how did they plug this in ? " |
| 27 | You 'll have to excuse this picking up and putting down of , papers . |
| 28 | each footfall picking up and putting down |
| 29 | Stair saw his brother and came forward to greet him , Havvie still at his side , his wife picking up and putting things down as though they were contaminated — she had not married Havvie in order to slum it , as she later said . |
| 30 | For a round cake , roll the cake like a wheel along the strip , picking up and pressing on the marzipan as you go . |