Example sentences of "[v-ing] up and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It concerns an executive who passed a mental hospital on his way to work and stopped occasionally to watch an inmate going through the motions of winding up and pitching an imaginary ball . |
| 2 | But I want to take my time over tackling up and savouring the prospect of the sport I hope to enjoy . |
| 3 | Thus when the chimpanzee , supplied in the laboratory with two boxes and a stick to reach a suspended bunch of bananas , stops leaping up and trying the reach them with its hands and instead puts one box on top of the other , climbs up and dislodges the bananas with the stick , it is using to the full its basic ability to suppress the automatic response — leaping up — in favour of the intelligent one — climbing up and reaching with the stick . |
| 4 | But he had to restrain himself from leaping up and switching the light off and peering out into the street from behind the curtains . |
| 5 | By simply picking up and moving the categories ' names with the mouse I can reverse their positions and totally rebuild the worksheet … |
| 6 | It 's proved a good way of picking up and pigeonholing the plight of the young middle classes living in a country in retreat . |
| 7 | More than 20 plasterers were resident in Bristol in these years and what seems to have happened was that the two Tyndalls brooded over rolls of Chinese wallpaper and popular books of decorative devices like The Modern Builder 's Assistant ( 1757 ) , picking up and choosing the themes and the motifs that pleased them . |
| 8 | We start by picking up and examining the cube . |
| 9 | One visiting history adviser looking at a display of old washing equipment got the infants to explain by picking up and examining an old flat iron , looking for the flex and asking " But how did they plug this in ? " |
| 10 | So remember to treat yourselves , perhaps slowly saving up and buying a present for yourself or doing things you enjoy , as rewards for your achievements . |
| 11 | She is seen with Paris , whom she has persuaded to stay in Troy while his companions fight ; and Pandarus is also present , soaking up and intensifying the sensual atmosphere . |
| 12 | It prevents the hammer from bouncing up and hitting the string again . |
| 13 | The work of lining up and fixing the cylinders will be taken in hand early this year , and then work will start on the valve gear , which will be of the original ‘ gab ’ type . |
| 14 | One of the consortium 's most experienced miners said : ‘ A lot of the lads are in a desperate situation , but they are still turning up and working every hour . |
| 15 | The Sun newspaper is to set up a service called ‘ Hard Views ’ aimed at ‘ cleaning up and improving the standards of journalism in television ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ The blonde picked my pocket and then when I grabbed her this one came rushing up and knocked the breath out of me . |
| 17 | I was hoping to film the kits growing up and discovering the world around them , but before they were old enough to fend for themselves , a fisherman trapped and killed the mother . |
| 18 | They had for many years been letting cottages — although many more than we — and were just starting to think of selling up and living a quieter life . |
| 19 | Zhukov had posed the photograph with two of his ‘ models ’ , then meticulously superimposed the face of Mikhail Vologsky upon one of them before touching up and re-photographing the composite . |
| 20 | Some of these may offer opportunities which lean more towards science , technology or maths work — drawing up and costing a cleaning contract for a historic building ( How exactly does one clean that crystal chandelier ? |
| 21 | The communiqué outlined five principles for drawing up and implementing the five- and 10-year plans : ( i ) " firmly follow the road of building socialism with Chinese characteristics " ; ( ii ) " firmly push forward reform and opening to the outside world " ; ( iii ) " firmly implement the principle of developing the national economy in a sustained , stable and co-ordinated manner " ; ( iv ) " firmly follow the principle of self-reliance , hard struggle and building up the country through thrift and diligence " ; and ( v ) " firmly implement the principle of promoting both material civilization and socialist culture and ethics " . |
| 22 | Depression of the plunger delivers two units of insulin obviating the need for drawing up and simplifying the procedure for when patients are out and about . |
| 23 | Eddie Murphy 's Boomerang is n't so much a comeback after recent failures as a career rethink , deliberately designed to show Fast Eddie easing up and losing the street hustle — coming on , in fact , like a black Cary Grant . |
| 24 | Although not used more often than once a year in autumn , this tool saves all the hard work involved in scarifying ( breaking up and loosening the surface of ) a lawn by hand with a lawn rake . |
| 25 | This was not quite a case of the bitten getting up and rewarding the biter because Kent exposed Hollwyood , which is not quite the British movie industry . |
| 26 | She had died instantaneously , or pretty nearly so , without first getting up and crawling down the embankment , or for that matter getting up and riding a bicycle . |
| 27 | Once seated in Huy 's living room , Merymose relaxed , but only a little , and he could not remain in his chair long , but kept getting up and pacing the narrow space between the front door and the rear wall . |
| 28 | All over the world we are rising up and refusing the exploited identity for which we were conditioned . |
| 29 | Then at the third came one of his astonishing feats : he drove the ball 330 yards , through spectators crossing the fairway 30 yards from the green , before chipping up and holing a 12ft putt for birdie . |
| 30 | You can now use the yarn for sewing up and have no further problems with Wonderful ! ’ |