Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , pluralists may accuse the structural Marxist accounts of dressing up pluralism with a rather turgid form of Marxist verbiage . |
| 2 | Steam each pudding for 6 hrs , topping up pan with hot water as necessary . |
| 3 | But all the same he wished that McAllister were not going up West with Rose that night , and wondered what was coming over him that such a fly-trap could fill his waking — and his sleeping — thoughts ! |
| 4 | Viv 's going up town with you . |
| 5 | This is made possible by whipping up speed with a continuous pull on the lines by the flyer . |
| 6 | Grandmother Sylvia Pye is breaking up wood with a sledgehammer at the roadside . |
| 7 | Administrative techniques like splitting up contact with patients into ritual tasks , or moving staff from ward to ward , are now questioned . |
| 8 | In direct contrast to all this hectic , hedonistic activity , over at the Marquee , The Red House Painters are propping up Belly with weary tenderness . |
| 9 | In debates over the Labour party 's policy review in 1989 , Mr Kinnock countered complaints from his left wing that he was propping up capitalism with the claim that Labour 's task was to make the market work more efficiently and justly . |
| 10 | There had been disaffection among the Welsh in the universities for more than eighteen months now , and many a wandering musician had been thrown into prison for stirring up sedition with his tribal songs , and more than one had been put to death . |
| 11 | An advertisement appeared in the Scotsman drawing attention to the sale of " the whole valuable stock of letter-press and printing materials belonging to the Caledonian Press , who are giving up business with the premises No. 31 Hanover Street " . |
| 12 | His adoption led to his taking up work with the deaf . |
| 13 | He was already into the champagne and mansion bracket up in the hills and very soon began his first famous relationship , setting up home with Joan Collins . |
| 14 | In other cases he remains cut off , although he may then recover well enough physically and mentally to start a new life , perhaps even setting up home with someone else and taking on a new job . |
| 15 | If women want to spend their lives with something that is slim , sanitary and sensitive , perhaps they should consider setting up home with a thermometer dipped in Dettol . |
| 16 | ‘ All I meant was that I find it hard to imagine myself setting up home with someone else again . ’ |