Example sentences of "[v-ing] up a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The veteran Eire international is careful not to be drawn into a new slanging match with Ferguson — but one of those reasons must be to show the United manager that he is not a crippled has-been , better equipped propping up a bar than shoring up a defence at football 's highest level . |
| 2 | OPENING UP A FLUE |
| 3 | NATO will now plan opening up a land corridor to the beleaguered city of Sarajevo for armed relief convoys . |
| 4 | This account of normalisation focuses on opening up a range of life-style opportunities which are available to the rest of the population but which have tended to be closed to people with learning difficulties . |
| 5 | Total history seeks to reconstitute the overall form of a society according to some fundamental principle , law , or form , be it metaphysical or material , while general history despite its name is by no means concerned to produce a general theory of history , nor even a cohesive or comprehensive view , but rather to conduct a historical investigation according to particular problems , opening up a field ‘ in which one could describe the singularity of practices , the play of their relations ’ . |
| 6 | Much has been written on opening up a dialogue and creating collaboration on reading between home and school . |
| 7 | ‘ There was no conception of opening up a capacity for you to do things for yourself . |
| 8 | When opening up a fireplace , you 'll usually find that the fireback is in a poor condition , and needs replacing . |
| 9 | He managed to complete the last lap with a flourish in a little under a minute , opening up a 10-metre lead down the back straight . |
| 10 | As Titron lifted , the black water in the dock sucked away , opening up a drop of several feet , only to be followed by a surge upwards . |
| 11 | A modern patio with a large glazed area is the ideal way of opening up a living room by leading the eye out into the garden . |
| 12 | An unpruned bush may suffer from wind rock over winter , opening up a funnel around the base of the stem which could fill with water and freeze . |
| 13 | Bush had emphasized heavily throughout the campaign the issues of trust and character , and this latest revelation appeared to be particularly damaging to him ; opinion poll evidence suggested that , at the end of October , Clinton was once again opening up a lead . |
| 14 | The first frame last night was as crucial as any , but Hendry won that with breaks of 54 and 55 before opening up a lead of three with an 81 which proved to be his highest after the interval . |
| 15 | Reading this collection of interviews with twenty five Scottish and Irish women poets is like opening up a box of plain chocolates , only to be confronted with an array of brightly coloured and diverse tasting liqueurs . |
| 16 | She flashed him her most sacharine-sweet and blatantly insincere smile , mentally notching up a point for herself when irritation tightened his lips . |
| 17 | The chief reason I 'd always been against abortion was that it seemed like tearing up a bill instead of paying it . |
| 18 | I was in no way offended , though , by O'Connor 's simple action of tearing up a picture of the Pope on television . |
| 19 | Tearing up a letter . |
| 20 | Drunks were making a din on the stairs and a sculptor was tearing up a collection of Kisling 's drawings and throwing them down on to the head of the concierge . |
| 21 | Tired as they were , they stumbled through the dark hours , picking themselves up when they fell , keeping up a pace that left no time for thought or speech . |
| 22 | The cost of keeping up a navy was already the really large item in the expenses of empire , but the English needed a navy for their own safety from invasion as well as to protect their trade , so the colonies — and perhaps particularly the West Indian colonies — got some benefit from money the English would have had to spend in any case . |
| 23 | ‘ So you write to your family , keeping up a pretence that all is well with your world ? |
| 24 | So they 're keeping up a mystery to stay even with us . |
| 25 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 26 | Anyway , we pulled ourselves together and pretended to be pleased to see him , and then he drove us back to London like a maniac , keeping up a stream of gibberish which after a while I stopped listening to . |
| 27 | A wife can be busy bunging up a family and so taken up with their affairs that she fails to give her husband real attention . |
| 28 | Yeah , well brightening up a bit |
| 29 | Because it is autumn again , and the frosts have arrived , they are knocking up a spot of cider . |
| 30 | TWISTING UP A STORMER |