Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] up [art] [noun sg] " 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 | They pause , watching her long walk across the grass , a supplicant walking up the cathedral nave , she has a sense of awe , her hands are cold and damp in spite of the heat . |
| 3 | Rachaela had , again , the image of a man in a black cloak walking up the house wall . |
| 4 | In what seemed to him to be the far distance he could see Mariana and the President climbing up the meadow to meet him . |
| 5 | From having the best midfield in the league it now seems to have gone distinctly limp — what price now Batty ( nice to see Battyburn keeping up the chase ) . |
| 6 | Patrick heard her little car passing up the avenue . |
| 7 | I knew that I would get a lift on a boat going up the canal . |
| 8 | There was scaffolding rearing up the face of the house from the front garden and , next to the front door , a large notice saying : |
| 9 | I worked it out , from things Barbara Coleman told me , and I hitched a lift in a car going up the valley and walked the last mile or two . |
| 10 | Cross over this bridge and follow the broad trackway on the other side leading up the valley to Scandale Pass ( 3 miles ) . |
| 11 | Tracy , of Derwent Street , Darlington , yesterday recovering from her ordeal , said she was walking by herself to the video shop when she heard the car racing up the alley . |
| 12 | Some late night joy-riding fool of a soldier ripping up the beach with his big truck tyres ? |
| 13 | I could feel the different textures of wood , gravel and asphalt racing beneath my fingers as they came to rest on the road , and was terrified of a car coming up the cul-de-sac and smashing my hand . |
| 14 | Share options are more attractive than outright share purchases because there is no risk of a loss being made by the employee taking up the option if share prices fall . |
| 15 | Colour Explosion from Revlon has vivid colours like Orange Fire and Vicacious Pink making up the range . |
| 16 | the main vertical stroke making up a type character . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | The Statute Setting up the State Asset Agency |
| 19 | ‘ And what 's to stop this dame tanking up the deal later ? |
| 20 | He waited , the hair crisping up the back of his head . |
| 21 | The core is aligned with one coil picking up the north-south field and inclined at roughly 67° to the horizontal and adjusted so as to produce the largest positive output from the amplifier . |
| 22 | ‘ What are you doing ? ’ she asked , her heart picking up the pace again . |
| 23 | He doubted if these boys had been playing soccer — Hurstdown 's sporting young gentlemen would surely scorn such a plebeian game — and , sure enough , the boy bringing up the rear , older and taller than the rest and evidently in charge , was clutching a rugby ball to his chest . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The soft , tight band strapped around her arm was nevertheless a comfort , as the pointer pushing up the dial , achieving a number , was a comfort , too , for now something was being done , someone would give her treatment to ward off the attacks of death . |
| 26 | There are tantalising descriptions of buildings now demolished — ‘ a wonderful high ceiling in the banking hall going up the equivalent of two storeys ’ — plus accounts of lunchtimes and commuting . |
| 27 | If I said to John and Joanne erm that I saw a boy running up the ginnel no you understand ? |
| 28 | He looked backwards expecting to see the rear gunner running up the fuselage to report that his gun had jammed . |
| 29 | A B western hero hiding up a gully while the posse rush blindly past was believable . |
| 30 | Sensational wins over world No 2 Chris Dittmar and No 3 Rodney Martin in the past three weeks , plus victory over six-times world champion Jahangir Khan in the World Championships , have propelled the Nottingham 21-year-old soaring up the world rankings to No 7 . |