Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fred was thundering on with the speech as though the corpse had n't fled , and at the same time bobbing up onto the balls of his feet with relief from the lost burden . |
| 2 | Mrs Hollidaye 's dogs were left inside the car bobbing up at the rear window . |
| 3 | The narrow fissure stretched some twenty-five feet into the cliff before opening up into the tiny cave . |
| 4 | In his final statements in the Venezuelan capital Caracas , his last stop , Bush repeated the central message of the tour , that a " new age " was opening up for the Americas . |
| 5 | ‘ I am particularly excited about the opportunities that it will provide for opening up for the first time higher educational facilities in the area . |
| 6 | The EC favoured further opening up of the customer equipment market ; a separation of the regulatory and operational functions of the telephone authority ; a more cost-oriented pricing of services ; the major network and a small number of basic services would remain the monopoly of the telecoms administration . |
| 7 | As part of the process of opening up to the West , Kim used the occasion to give an interview to the Washington Times in which he called for improved relations with the USA and said that he wished to see a US embassy established in the capital , Pyongyang , " as quickly as possible " . |
| 8 | Ocean barriers opening up during the early phases of mammalian evolution had protected the marsupials in Australia and the lemurs and other unique animals of Madagascar . |
| 9 | Mr Thomas reported optimism , however , that the situation is opening up under the new coalition government that came into being a few months ago . |
| 10 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 11 | The famous $18,000m black hole that Gartner Group so memorably spotted opening up in the heart of IBM 's business will suck the entire company into oblivion if it does n't embark on a crash programme to save the AS/400 . |
| 12 | Now that new possibilities are opening up in the Balkans , they will modify this . |
| 13 | This is one respect in which we can see regional differences opening up in the kind of support which relatives can give to each other , although we know very little about how these matters are handled in families at the present time . |
| 14 | Faced with a new branch of nationwide chain opening up in the next street leading to falling sales at one 's own bookshop , a bookseller might go for interviews with customers leaving the new store . |
| 15 | And they indicate there that there are excellent opportunities opening up in the United Kingdom bottled water market across the full range of available products commonly consumed and specifically identified friendly product ranges . |
| 16 | The nearby fishing village of Porthleven was also badly hit , with a 14ft-deep hole opening up in the back garden of one house . |
| 17 | The expensive new shops , restaurants , casinos and nightclubs opening up in the status-conscious post-Soviet capital are often given Western names , which represent luxury to the city 's chic new bourgeoisie. — Reuter |
| 18 | She could see Miss Henrietta yet in her mind 's eye , so young and lovely , laughing up into the face of her adoring Captain Cook . |
| 19 | His mild reaction to the tearing up of the Treaty of Versailles was perhaps explicable by the fact that he saw such events as inevitable and because the Foreign Office was locked into a policy of appeasement . |
| 20 | With Hitler 's tearing up of the Munich agreement , with the invasion of the rest of Czechoslovakia and the threat to Poland , British public opinion began to distrust Hitler 's word and the nature of nazism changed markedly . |
| 21 | Every time we struck a chord people would come tearing up from the bar to tell us to turn that fucking racket down . |
| 22 | After a slower than expected march we were gearing up on the famous Green Ledge in bright sunshine — the Ennerdale mountains stretching away like the bony spine of a slumbering dragon . |
| 23 | Previous page , gearing up at the foot of the route ( photos Ed Douglas ) . |
| 24 | ARE HOTELIERS GEARING UP FOR THE NEW EC FIRE SAFETY DIRECTIVE ? |
| 25 | But while they were gearing up for the Hi-de-Hi job , Wirral 's Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals went short of clean bedlinen . |
| 26 | Buckinghamshire speedway ace Simon Wigg is gearing up for the new season with a new club … he 's signed up for Coventr |
| 27 | THE Royal Mail is gearing up for the General Election . |
| 28 | It enables your staff to know themselves how well they 're doing their job , and if they 're keeping up to the mark . |
| 29 | Zapp is simply keeping up with the state of the art ; he is more convinced than ever that professionalism is its own justification and reward . |
| 30 | Britain could not match these percentages but it was catching up , ‘ keeping up with the Joneses ’ . |