Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 2 | This woman who , who keeps phoning me up about all this oil pollution on her land . |
| 3 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 4 | To generate a biological molecule like haemoglobin , the red pigment in blood , by simple sieving would be equivalent to taking all the amino-acid building blocks of haemoglobin , jumbling them up at random , and hoping that the haemoglobin molecule would reconstitute itself by sheer luck . |
| 5 | Caird specialises in buying small waste management and landfill companies , integrating them and bringing them up to existing and proposed European standards on waste disposal . |
| 6 | In addition most clubs organise a full programme of races over the season which , once you 've mastered the basics of sailing , can improve your skills very quickly by matching them up with other boats in the fleet . |
| 7 | The revised constitutional package focused on ( i ) fiscal adjustment measures including , critically , a new simplified tax system to broaden the tax base in order to raise an extra US$10,000 million per annum ; ( ii ) the lifting of banking secrecy in cases of proven tax evasion ; ( iii ) new mechanisms for dealing with state debts to the central government ; ( iii ) the ending of government monopolies in such areas as oil and telecommunications , opening them up to private domestic and ( more controversially ) foreign capital investment . |
| 8 | Just appeals to him , hyping you up like that . |
| 9 | He was beginning to wonder if they were n't already softening him up for some kind of a change . |
| 10 | Despite earlier statements , both public and private , by members of the new right-leaning administration in France that they had no intention of making any immediate change in France Telecom 's status , the government told the telephone operator 's board of directors meeting last week to consider spinning off its mobile telecommunications business and opening it up to international investment . |
| 11 | Cork tiles are made by compressing the bark of the cork tree into a block , and then slicing it up into thin layers . |
| 12 | And topping them up with that plangent wine |
| 13 | ‘ She was picking them up at random and saying things like , ‘ This boy 's in a wheelchair but that does n't stop him giving me the eye , ’ or , ‘ This is the college stud but he cuts no ice with me . ’ ’ |
| 14 | A car is picking me up at 1.30 to take me to Thames T.V. to be made up as a Chinese coolie . |
| 15 | We got a same day driver picking me up at five fo , five thirty outside the hotel . |
| 16 | Glen 's picking me up at half six , yeah |
| 17 | ‘ Well , you could stop picking me up in that van . |
| 18 | Mr Broadhurst was by now in the habit of picking me up from Varndean Grammar on Wednesday afternoons , accompanying me to Pool Valley , and then on home by bus . |
| 19 | So that 's purely , I mean and there 's no point in picking you up on that because you just had n't got to that point . |
| 20 | Then there was the ship 's agent who made a run for it in his car , guessing we would search his house after picking him up with some uncustomed goods . |
| 21 | I have often reflected that if the founders , Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst , had behaved like any other rural landowners , living it up through judicious stock-market investments , no one would have raised an eyebrow . |
| 22 | No amount of dressing it up in fancy language or elegant commentating will alter that . |
| 23 | ‘ You 'll turn the child 's head , ’ he used to say , ‘ filling it up with all that nonsense . ’ |
| 24 | 2 Make a hay infusion ( Chapter 5 ) and leave it uncovered on a shady window-sill for several weeks , topping it up with cooled , boiled water when necessary . |
| 25 | ‘ He would make tremendous efforts , like running to catch the last train back when I was two months old , and waking me up at 11 o'clock at night to spend time with me . |
| 26 | How do you stop a cockerel from waking you up at five o'clock on a Monday morning ? |
| 27 | Fright fully had show , waking you up like this … but I 've got something damn peculiar here . " |
| 28 | His trousers usually fell down a bit and he was observed to be always hitching them up by peculiar digs with his elbows . |
| 29 | A large spreadsheet can be made much easier to work with by breaking it up into logical pieces on several pages of a notebook . |
| 30 | The idea is to invite youth workers to ring up onto a party line on a certain night , giving them the theme for discussion beforehand , linking them up with other people to talk about their work . |