Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Mr Crozier admitted his department was still gearing up to implement the legislation , he confirmed that once all the stall were fully trained they would begin prosecuting offenders . |
| 2 | A new wave of black British talent is now threatening to do the same — breaking out of a burgeoning club circuit and gearing up to colonise the nation 's TV sets |
| 3 | The response showed a significant shift , with more people ending up opposing the death penalty , even for the specific offence of terrorist murder . |
| 4 | Kitty , it turned out , had no head for figures and , worse , fell for every sob story she was told , often ending up giving the food away . |
| 5 | At least we were earning some money , and they were ending up owing the company money I think . |
| 6 | When John hung a cupboard on small metal brackets , she insisted on climbing up to paint a trompe l'oeil over the brackets as camouflage . |
| 7 | But the picking up strikes a chord and going through the motions always works . |
| 8 | I had been saving up to buy a cooker and fridge and Brian 's mum and dad gave us some of the furniture . |
| 9 | Now 26 police forces from the midlands and the south are teaming up to counter the menace such gatherings cause to landowners and the general public . |
| 10 | Paula was already studying the map , looking up to check a sign . |
| 11 | Even topping up to replace the water lost by evaporation is taken care of automatically . |
| 12 | ULSTER 'S soccer fanzine writers were lining up to put the boot in today — with not a typewriter in sight . |
| 13 | Already Scottish Tory Mps are lining up to threaten the Government that they will withhold support or even vote against if Rosyth is forsaken . |
| 14 | IBM , the world 's biggest computer firm , is lining up to grab a slice of a new growth market — processing images from satellites . |
| 15 | But he 'd have to drop the lemon tea lark when he went back to the Battalion ; it would be like turning up wearing a frock . |
| 16 | He had long deplored the grand opera house tradition of stars turning up to slot into ready-rehearsed productions , and recalled the awful theatre tale of a famous Lear/Hamlet/Othello turning up to greet a cast of strangers , saying ‘ Whatever you do , do n't get in my way … ‘ |
| 17 | There will be no question of a visitor turning up to find a hotel half built . |
| 18 | Excitement is high at St Michael 's School , Billingham , at the prospect of Jamie Pollock and Sean Gregan turning up to launch the school 's 1992 year book . |
| 19 | Tribe , not knowing how to fly when the propeller stopped turning , glided heavily eastward and crash-landed in a field full of German infantry , who were having a meal before going up to join the attack . |
| 20 | At the at the Gorbels and after I was married During the war there was a terrific fire and he was burned to death in the lift going up to bring the girls down . |
| 21 | until about half past nine , when they said right that 's all the dir dirty work done , he said I 'm going up to have a shower and he put the carpet , rolled the carpet half back , and picked up a load of mess and we had polythene dust sheets over it |
| 22 | It should be noted in passing that the precedent for this — the credit union movement 's international mutual insurance fund , which insures only against death ( paying off loans , and paying up to double a union member 's savings ) at no added cost to borrower or saver — is now one of the biggest in the world . |
| 23 | Then , just before stepping up to sign the register , he took off his hat . |
| 24 | HP 's software effort for the new servers included endorsement from a veritable who's-who of mainframe software houses , all eager to stand up on the platform and say that their customers were queueing up to leave the IBM mainframe world behind . |
| 25 | That the government , local authorities and private companies are not queueing up to offer the resources to enable CABx to extend their work can only be due to the movement 's failure to make its point effectively . |
| 26 | A slow retrieve , occasionally stopping to allow the bait to sink back to depth , then speeding up to run the bait to the surface working the bait as a lure or wobbled bait would be , the difference is that on this occasion you could be doing it at 150 yards from the bank and an area never covered by bankside wobblers . |
| 27 | As you approach the time of competition , begin ‘ interval training ’ in your aerobic band by working very hard to raise the pulse rate almost into the anaerobic threshold , then easing up to drop the pulse rate down into the lower third of the band . |
| 28 | limbering up to put a point themselves |
| 29 | Instead of concentrating on the lines of the dance — which they will need if they ever dance in Ashton 's Symphonic Variations or Monotones , MacMillan 's Requiem or Bintley 's Consort Lessons — students spend more time loosening up to meet the demands of modern choreographers . |
| 30 | ‘ Quite often I write songs in my head , ’ he claims , before getting up to answer a phone call from Brett , looking to arrange rehearsal times . |