Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] up [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The days of leaving one 's brains at the front gate and picking them up again when one leaves are firmly in the past . |
| 2 | older women , losing height a lot of pain from these fractures and it 's bones that are too porous so they 're not holding you up sufficiently as you get older . |
| 3 | Fill the chest with the chocolate coins , jewels and other treasure , piling it up so as to hide the chopstick in the corner . |
| 4 | This means starting the record at about 33rpm , and speeding it up gradually as the stylus travels in . |
| 5 | They 've set up , increased the numbers of discs in the library in the workshop er , there 's no increasing them up here cos there 's , we need to buy a computer , but certainly up and in the workshop and in the library . |
| 6 | Indeed , Opposition Members did nothing to clear up the uncertainties about the huge expenditure on which they would have to embark to renationalise these industries before messing them up again as they did in the 1970s when they were under national control . |
| 7 | I ca n't believe that Chrissie would let you come down here without setting you up better than this . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Well , ’ Nora said , ‘ I hope he wo n't be following you up here when Louise has gone to Italy . |