Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [v-ing] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So simply making up the calcium that astronauts excrete may not ensure that it is laid down properly in new bone . |
| 2 | At least that will be the attitude of the minister who has scrabbled around ( perhaps even ringing up a colleague on the Saturday night ) in a desperate search for that elusive thing , the good children 's address . |
| 3 | These operate as discursive resources to be drawn upon and articulated in different combinations in particular contexts , thus constantly opening up the possibility of tension , inconsistency and contradiction within and between sites . |
| 4 | In pre-Big Bang times there existed a widespread belief that the then existing regulatory framework was not only propping up an inefficient system but that it was also outmoded and fast becoming inadequate for the protection of investors . |
| 5 | The most important thing was just physically keeping up the morale . |
| 6 | Not just patching up the old broken down life and saying something like this , from now onwards I 'm gon na go to church , I 'm gon na read my bi , I 'm gon na be a Christian ! |
| 7 | He took a final pull of his beer : by the time he had finished it , Annie was hovering above him , her large red hands already noisily piling up the dishes . |
| 8 | They did not hope for any tangible support for their undertaking , but a charter would give them some standing in England , allow them to create a legal government , and possibly convince any enquiring Spaniards that they were not simply setting up a pirate base . |
| 9 | Observation of operator performance within many high technology systems reveals nothing more than a person sitting at a desk scanning various kinds of displays at intervals and just occasionally picking up a telephone , making a note in a log-book or manipulating a control . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Now erm I suppose more recently coming up the present , coming away from nineteenth century Vienna into erm I suppose really I suppose the nineteen seventies , nineteen eighties , people became much more interested in the issue of child sex abuse again and this was n't really because of any great developments in clinical psychology or psychiatry . |
| 12 | The reviewer is likely to get hot under the collar if a personal favourite has been left out and can easily end up merely drawing up a rival selection . |
| 13 | A defendant who admits his conviction but denies its relevance is probably also putting up a positive case and not just relying on a denial of which particulars would not normally be ordered . |
| 14 | The horses were reined in and a man-at-arms plunged into the stream , presently triumphantly holding up the dripping book , which was returned to the anxious Queen . |
| 15 | And it was perfect for me because a lot of the vibrato that I had developed over the years suddenly sounded more like me , because the vibrato bar was n't there taking up the slack and giving way every time I applied vibrato . |
| 16 | Alice Pell — who for two years said she ate , slept and breathed the 1964 pie and had been up half the night cooking it — was there happily serving up the 1988 one . |
| 17 | Very Simply Topping Up the Brake Fluid |
| 18 | Tabitha wondered how long the woman had been scratching a living on the waterways , complaining to uncaring passengers , never quite summoning up the cash or the strength to take the long haul home . |