Example sentences of "[v-ing] up the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the Multiple sclerosis sufferers at Didcot ; they believe there 's enough evidence to give credibility to their treatment , so they 're keeping up the pressure both inside and outside the chamber . |
| 2 | She had long ago stopped resenting their original professional clashes , and these days their disagreements tended to be over minor details , with her ending up the victor as often as he did . |
| 3 | insy winsy spider climbing up the spout again |
| 4 | Yes , very good , we 're climbing up the league now , week by week . |
| 5 | What you 'll find , you 'll find in here that it 'll just be picking up the budgies mainly . |
| 6 | ‘ What are you doing ? ’ she asked , her heart picking up the pace again . |
| 7 | Dumb Why do you like picking up the telephone so much ? |
| 8 | ‘ The hospital say he ca n't be moved for two months yet , ’ said Annunziata , picking up the tray again , ‘ but then il dottore will arrange everything . |
| 9 | ‘ You can guard each other , ’ he said , picking up the loaf again . |
| 10 | Forcing its customers to junk their telephones and buy expensive new digital handsets will not be popular either , so BT is considering installing combined analogie and ISDN junction boxes — which has the disadvantage of pushing up the cost yet again . |
| 11 | Although they make a go of the cinema for a while , by showing desert pictures and pushing up the heat so that they can sell cool refreshments , their only aim is to get back to middle-class life , but with enough money to avoid any more ‘ petty , stupid problems . ’ |
| 12 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 13 | For Lurgan woman Louise Kearney , who recently had a pre-cancerous mole removed , soaking up the sun just does n't appeal to her anymore . |
| 14 | The Connell report said part-time recall man Ken Evans had failed to raise his flag and criticised starter Captain Keith Brown for lining up the horses too close to the tape . |
| 15 | It also criticised starter Captain Keith Brown for lining up the horses too close to the tape and described the starting gate as outdated . |
| 16 | Clematis are going up the sticks now ! |
| 17 | I 'm going up the garage anyway , alright ? |
| 18 | I tell you when he 's coming but then I 'd have the cooker going up the Swannee Well , well no . |
| 19 | We should give thought to cleaning up the environment generally . |
| 20 | Andy and I went down by the river and the loch , clambering up the rocks upstream then back down , watching fish jump lazily out on the calm loch , or strike at the insects speckling those flat waters , jaws snapping underneath ; dispatching , swallowing , leaving ripples . |
| 21 | By the late 1960s , members were putting down up to 300 questions a day and the Speaker attempted to reach more oral questions by speeding up the exchanges so as to cover forty to fifty questions in fifty or fifty-five minutes . |
| 22 | When you 're drawing up the timetable right at the beginning there is no reason why you can not fix your planning meeting dates , and stick pretty closely to them . |
| 23 | She has been a couple of times but er when we were bringing up the family course she could n't reasonably go with me every week and er , but she had used to be er a good supporter when she was a girl , she used to go with her father in those days my son 's been with me , cos I took him las well he took me last night with his wife I went in their car . |
| 24 | ‘ What 's your game then ? ’ asked the man , holding up the razor firmly . |
| 25 | The truce of 1921 was attacked as a typical piece of Lloyd George chicanery , and it needed all the efforts of the party leaders to stop the party from breaking up the government there and then . |
| 26 | The poet appears at first to be unable to utter his thoughts clearly ; he circles wildly , stumbling from one half-finished sentence into another , and breaking up the lines awkwardly ( 1 , 2 , 6 , 9 ) . |
| 27 | I 'm breaking up the band anyway . |
| 28 | Oh I did n't like them I was , I could see them riding up the leg just like that pair I had on that day and in the end they look so grey and they look like |
| 29 | I , I mean , I at the moment I 'm not doing anything about Neil 's training because we 've got coming and it 's it 's too soon to start stirring up the bud again . |
| 30 | In front of me , the noble tradition lives on in the hands of a middle-aged commuter who , peering intently into his 101 Puzzles and Games for Boys , is joining up the dots incorrectly . |