Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly struggling up from the depths of deep unconsciousness , Laura flicked open her eyelids , only to shut them firmly again as she winced at the brilliant sunshine flooding in through the windows of the bedroom . |
| 2 | Dispel notions of lethargic ponies plodding nose to tail , only speeding up on the way back to the stables : trail riding can be both challenging and exciting . |
| 3 | Mm you basically saving up for a complete system ? |
| 4 | I mean , it 's only going up on the wall with those three others . |
| 5 | Creatures that bestride the dividing line between amphibians and reptiles and between mammals and protomammals , are constantly turning up in the fossil record . |
| 6 | It 's a wonderful surprise to turn the corner , just yards away from the mayhem of the chairlift , and find yourself in wide , sweeping moorland , gently inclining up to the ridge . |
| 7 | Well they had a particularly bad time many of them lost absolutely everything and now they 're protesting cos the Lloyds people are only coming up with a nine hundred million pound rescue package that might give them some of them back half of what they invested . |
| 8 | The headmaster himself had accused her of only joining up for the uniform . |
| 9 | Valves of drysuits freeze up if pressed for too long , and a careless diver in a drysuit may find himself suddenly hurtling up to the surface , with potentially fatal consequences . |
| 10 | There were more than a few ‘ One Sergeant Wilko ’ and similar chants during the evening , perhaps making up for the heat-of-the-moment bollocking he got at Anfield for taking off a very industrious Rod Wallace . |
| 11 | The rock is a unique form of conglomerate , so warming up on a few practice routes was needed to get a feel for it . |
| 12 | Yet both sides expressed satisfaction that the Israeli-Palestinian talks were finally catching up with the concurrent negotiations between Israel and its other Arab adversaries , Jordan , Lebanon and Syria . |
| 13 | I can not resist the feeling that the Government 's extraordinary surrender yesterday to German bullying over the recognition of Croatia had something to do with the need to appease German public opinion , which is turning nasty on the whole process — or perhaps it was just sucking up to the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. |
| 14 | A large black car was just driving up to the airport building . |
| 15 | He says over the last five years it 's got far more popular … it 's a sport which is developing … it 's just opening up as a competitve sport … |
| 16 | As he was talking , he was sliding out of bed , still trying to face his wife , but finally leaping up with a glad cry and rushing for the door , clad only in his pyjama top , his penis smacking against his thighs as he ran , as she noted . |
| 17 | Then turn to the opposite direction by stepping with the left foot about a shoulder 's width to the left , thus ending up in a left forward stance in the opposite direction . |
| 18 | It 's interesting to note that actually now we 've since made that decision the residual has as I 've said come down to nine four seven , so if we do have a new settlement of fourteen hundred we 're already ending up with a a higher level of proposed development for Greater York now , the nine seven would obviously be exceeded if we had a fourteen hundred new settlement within Greater York . |
| 19 | Liam Conway , Claire Breslin , Adrian Rouiller and Margaret McConkey , all of AIB Dublin , made a formidable line up behind Martin , finally ending up with a total of 889 in the crucial last game . |
| 20 | Airacomet 44–22633 flew out of Edwards in the late 1940s , finally ending up on a target range along with some sister ‘ 59s . |
| 21 | Just picking up on an item on page fourteen about the externalization programme that obviously is going straight through the process er and should be resolved in the next week or so . |
| 22 | I mean , I 'm well aware you do n't have to face single-handed and prattling , blowing your own cor-anglais and generally acting up before a captive crowd of thousands . |
| 23 | Fresh greenskins were already forming up for the attack , spear-wielding infantry and archers among them , and towards the rear two huge Trolls shambled slowly through a sea of frolicking Snotlings . |
| 24 | ‘ Lake , Brian , Andy , ’ he explained , scarcely looking up from the screen . |
| 25 | A grey car , immaculately clean , was just pulling up at the gate and a big man in a plain grey suit was getting out to open it . |
| 26 | But I saw , I went into town yesterday , have n't been into town and I saw er , I 'm just going up past the job centre I had to go to council about me money and I thought well I suppose I ought to make an effort and look in the job centre cos I , I ai n't done because I 've been in catering all the while |
| 27 | Ward glanced in the rear-view mirror , then all round , finally pulling up in the middle of the road . |
| 28 | Our choice would be a former IBMer who has carved out a successful career running another computer company — Comdisco Inc chief Ken Pontikes is already facing up to the same problems besetting IBM , and despite his protestations , there 's always Ross Perot . |
| 29 | Just getting up at the start of the day without complaining , is an achievement . |
| 30 | But this this nervous thing is a very primitive instinct and I 'm just coming up to a word I never can pronounce so you 're going to have to help me with this one . |