Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hurried back down the stairs to find Will mopping up the remains of his soup from the stone-flagged kitchen floor . |
| 2 | ‘ What we wanted to tell you , ’ she continued , ‘ was that we'se goin' up the woods on Saturdee and we was wonderin' if you 'd come with us like . ’ |
| 3 | And all the hardware and systems companies that have made a precarious living gathering up the crumbs under IBM 's table . |
| 4 | He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself . |
| 5 | Though still it has all the marks of makeshift industrialisation and decline , with municipalism picking up the pieces , building endless estates of council houses . |
| 6 | So therefore you got motorbikes going up the ramps , which were n't designed for that . |
| 7 | I completed my 100 metre strides after they 'd gone , my heels flicking up the divots on to the back of my head . |
| 8 | Digital Equipment Corp executives remark that the Open Software Foundation better make some progress in the coming months stitching up the wounds of the old Unix wars and accommodating itself to new alliances or else it 's going to have a lot of trouble getting funding from its sponsors next year . |
| 9 | In nineteen ninety one we 'll all recall the desperate scenes of our television screens of Kurdish refugees scrambling up the mountains , fleeing from Iraq 's Saddam Hussein . |
| 10 | It 's in what was obviously quite a nice terrace at one time , early Victorian or something , with big fat columns holding up the porches and railings on the street and steps leading to the basement . |
| 11 | About half a mile away an attack is going in on a hill , I can see Commandos advancing up the slopes , shells burst a short distance in front of the forward troops , probably covering fire from the British Artillery . |
| 12 | fourteen or I had a sixteen overhead cam Cortina engine sitting up the blokes just swapped it for a two litre cos he wanted some more go . |
| 13 | ‘ The poor man at the gate , ’ that 's you , living here happy as sparrows pecking up the crumbs from his excellent table . |
| 14 | You may not need as much as that , but erm Bacteria , nitrates in the soil and the plants taking up the nitrates some of the plants . |
| 15 | Thus intravalence excitation and valence-electron ionization transitions contain information characteristic of molecules , whereas core-electron ionizations relate to the atoms making up the molecules . |
| 16 | But the revolution had now spread to campuses , and it was no good booksellers putting up the barricades . |
| 17 | Under Left Wall was a gaggle of climbers zooming up the classics . |
| 18 | Or one of Satan 's scouts calling up the legions of the damned from the abyss of Hell ? |
| 19 | Fabia felt a nibble of excitement get to her as she ran a comb through her long golden hair , and even found that there were traces of a smile picking up the corners of her mouth . |
| 20 | Panic set in on the twelfth day when , after ‘ lifting ’ milk , a lorry picking up the churns stopped , the driver beckoning Harry . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh ! ’ she breathed blissfully , and , with an impish smile turning up the corners of her mouth , ‘ Do n't stop there . ’ |
| 22 | " Yon " just happened to be three WAAFs toiling up the brae each with a kit bag . |
| 23 | While watching the Moi trackers scurrying up the trees , he began to daydream of how he would return alone to compete with all the youths of her village in feats of strength and athleticism . |
| 24 | We went into my room and sat down on the floor together , and dried each other 's tears ; then I began to laugh a bit , ruefully , because I suddenly imagined how we must look , a hulking great coloured man and a girl sitting snivelling in front of a gas-fire mopping up the tears with dozens of paper hankies . |
| 25 | Tiny figures with wands of fire were milling about the canalside , hopping from boat to boat , their shadows leaping up the faces of the buildings on the other bank as the fleeting light caught them and threw them about . |
| 26 | My life fell apart , but he had no trouble picking up the pieces and forged ahead with a new woman . |
| 27 | On this particular occasion it was doubled in time by the long army convoys crawling up the hills out of Lydney and Chepstow as the machine for war was ponderously assembled . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've bin totallin' up the bills fer the past month , ’ she told him . |
| 29 | Course in your area putting up the fences . |
| 30 | So again in London we spent nearly a week setting up the microphones and rehearsing . |