Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] up a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as in his rotation of Party officials to areas with which they had no connection and where they would have difficulty building up a power-base , so now Ceauşescu was transferring people into new places of work , forcing them to move from their old homes . |
| 2 | Inverdarroch : His typewriter , her knittin' machine , Laura Ashley patchwork kit cushion covers , jugs o' weeds on the mantelpiece and the collected works of Lillian Beckwith takin' up a hail shelf of the stripped pine kitchen dresser ! |
| 3 | the main vertical stroke making up a type character . |
| 4 | There is evidence of Roman traders setting up a depot near Braughing , using the River Lea as the transport link with the Thames . |
| 5 | An example of such a clause is the following which was found in the Foreign Compensation Act 1950 , a statute setting up a body known as the Foreign Compensation Commission : ‘ The determination by the commission of any application made to them under this Act shall not be called in question in any court of law . ’ |
| 6 | Luke 's eyes stared down into hers , his gaze drawing up a veil of heat in her body until she was suffused by a sensation that blocked out everything but his closeness . |
| 7 | One gentleman , who has not actually seen the apparition , has on several occasions heard footsteps walking up a stairway in the station . |
| 8 | A B western hero hiding up a gully while the posse rush blindly past was believable . |
| 9 | My first impression was that you 'd be more at home putting up a brass plate in Harley Street . ’ |
| 10 | These include the spatial or temporal intervals between the elements making up a display ( Kimura , 1969 ; Hines and Satz , 1971 ) , the distance of stimuli from fixation ( Bryden , 1966 ; McKeever and Gill 1972c ; Carmon and Nachson , 1973 ; Curcio , MacKavey and Rosen , 1974 ) , the spatial frequency of the stimulus ( Rao , Rourke and Whitman , 1981 ) , the directional characteristics of words and letters ( Harcum and Filion , 1963 ; Bryden , 1966 ; 1968 ; White , 1969b ) , the number of times a stimulus is presented ( Hardyck , Tzeng and Wang , 1977 ; 1978 ; Schmuller , 1980 ) , exposure duration ( Bryden , 1965 ; Gill and McKeever , 1974 ; Beaumont and Dimond , 1975 ) , stimulus size ( Pring , 1981 ; Pitblado , 1979b ) , typeface ( Bryden and Allard , 1976 ) , complexity ( Fontenot , 1973 ) and discriminability ( Patterson and Bradshaw , 1975 ) . |
| 11 | The police maintained a constant presence in the village setting up a base in the village hall right next door to Mr Eggleton 's house . |
| 12 | Implementation of the Eleventh Company Law Directive will add further complexities to the law relating to disclosure of information by foreign companies setting up a place of business in the UK , according to the Institute 's Company Law Sub-committee . |
| 13 | Wherever there 's a cop beating up a guy , I 'll be there . |
| 14 | My master read these through carefully like a clerk marking up a ledger . |
| 15 | Do you want the settee pulling up a bit ? |
| 16 | As the factory operates on shifts throughout every 24 hour period , there are always more workers building up a hunger and thirst . |
| 17 | You are n't seriously suggesting he might have spent fifteen years building up a simpleton 's profile , in case it would come in handy if ever he wanted to commit a crime ? ’ |
| 18 | The best stories , though , are perhaps the first , about a middle-aged bachelor farming alone after his mother dies , and the last , about a member of the village brass band picking up a woman on a bus trip to Venice . |
| 19 | Nine CIS member states ( all except Armenia and Ukraine ) had also signed an agreement at the Alma Ata meeting setting up a council to co-ordinate the work of their intelligence services . |
| 20 | The three stood in a momentary island of calm , whilst around them the fighting surged like surf beating up a beach . |
| 21 | She is pictured with sous chef Mark Jordan whipping up a storm in the kitchen . |
| 22 | On the television screen , we would see the moving scanner building up a picture 25 times each second . |
| 23 | And the home side 's innings continued to mirror that of England 's just over 24 hours earlier with John Emburey and the returning Jarvis picking up a wicket apiece to further England 's fightback . |
| 24 | The statisticians and historians will have to cut through all this and the added confusion of teams moving up a division without being promoted . |
| 25 | Dr Paul Hansma and colleagues at the University of California at Santa Barbara have already produced AFM pictures of individual amino acids making up a peptide chain . |
| 26 | Without warning a big estate-car swung round a bend in the lane , its wheels throwing up a shower of mud and water . |
| 27 | The fact is , I work in the National Health Service , and regardless of what the media or politicians may say , the reforms are costing millions of pounds setting up a system which is not working . |
| 28 | The court has been today hearing evidence from witnesses building up a picture of what the who defendants were doing in the hours before the alleged abduction of James Bolger . |
| 29 | Can you see a lamb climbing up a wire fence ? |
| 30 | ‘ We used to find that people picking up a 2D spreadsheet from another audit would spend ages trying to print it out and find out what was in there before they could start work . ’ |