Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greer gearing up for champion status |
| 2 | However , the increase in SSA enrolments was 24 per cent , only just keeping up with population growth , whereas in the final matriculation year ( Standard Ten ) , the increase was 327 per cent . |
| 3 | On Thursday we drew the whole thing together ending up with team practice and looking at the videos in the evening . |
| 4 | They 're treated as if they 're mentally retarded , ending up as factory fodder . |
| 5 | They 're treated as if they 're mentally retarded , ending up as factory fodder . |
| 6 | They were still driving up to Blood Rock . |
| 7 | In fact she was just checking up on room service , wondering if it was too late to order a plain omelette and salad in her room . |
| 8 | According to Lotus associate director Albert Adams — a world authority on composites and the man who , 30 years ago , was told by Chapman to ‘ learn all about glass-fibre ’ — it could be from the escalating costs of tooling up for pressed-steel car production . |
| 9 | The tables were filling up for afternoon tea . |
| 10 | There have been several instances in the late 1980s of undercover operations leading to the rounding up of soccer hooligan offenders ( Fielding , 1991:218 ) . |
| 11 | The president of the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) , Clarence Makwetu , said that the proposals were nothing more than the " dressing up of land apartheid in new clothes " . |
| 12 | It 's all very well this constant dancing and dressing up in Patrol uniform — Field Officers clanking about with highly hazardous spurs , silver cross belts liable to scratch tender bosoms … . ’ |
| 13 | Apple Computer Inc is teaming up with trading house Uchida Yoko Co Ltd to expand its business with Japanese schools , Reuter reports from Tokyo : Uchida , which specialises in office equipment and school supplies , aims to sell 3,000 Macintosh personal computers to schools in the year from July , taking advantage of the fact that in Japan 's supplementary budget unveiled in April , the government plans to increase spending on computers for schools and other public bodies — it is expected that $1,800m will be devoted to buying over 300,000 machines for schools by 1996 , with NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd , the latter with its FM Towns multimedia box seen as the main beneficiaries . |
| 14 | from the wilds of whitewater we 're off to the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire for the start of our action round up … there we 're meeting up with greyhound trainer Tony Meek … and his two dogs … |
| 15 | And , however little training you managed this winter , there will be plenty of others who did much less , and yet will have no qualms about lining up on race day . |
| 16 | I have thought about going up to Clove Lodge in the dark to say hello to Rosa , when I would n't be able to see my old place . |
| 17 | Can you , are you going up to post office ? |
| 18 | On the positive side , however , the months leading up to independence offer time to discuss the future direction of the country and to draw up specific plans . |
| 19 | On the positive side , however , the months leading up to independence offer time to discuss the future direction of the country and to draw up specific plans . |
| 20 | These are three gigs leading up to World AIDS day on December 1 , to raise funds for the Terrence Higgins Trust , the organisation that supports people who are HIV positive and people with AIDS-related illnesses . |
| 21 | These are three gigs leading up to World AIDS day on December 1 , to raise funds for the Terrence Higgins Trust , the organisation that supports people who are HIV positive and people with AIDS-related illnesses . |
| 22 | Most volumes appeared during the two decades leading up to World War 1 . |
| 23 | Heathrow Airport expected to handle a total of 600,000 passengers in the five days leading up to Christmas Day — a six per cent increase on last year . |
| 24 | Yes , we do get Rugby Special on a Sunday , at a time when most of the rugby fraternity are spending time recovering from the previous day 's actions , catching up with family life and preparing the next week 's work . |
| 25 | World mile record holder Steve Cram , still building up towards peak fitness for his Olympic qualifying bid , could turn out for his club , Jarrow and Hebburn , over 800 metres in a Pamasonic Northern League match at Leeds , which also features Teesside rivals Mandale and Middlesbrough . |
| 26 | IN HIS DREAM , Cameron Nielson Jr saw life as a motion picture , unspooling steadily in the white-hot gaze of the bulb , the past piling up like celluloid string on the projection booth floor . |
| 27 | As the US government admits that its trade embargo against Haiti 's military regime has failed to reintroduce democratic reforms , communication groups in the country are gaining both local and international respect for their efforts to support Haiti 's democratic movement by providing up to date information and analysis of events . |
| 28 | ( i ) instantly providing up to date information on individual employees . |
| 29 | ( ii ) providing up to date information on selected groups of employees within 24 hours of a request . |
| 30 | I did a diploma in nursing to add to my basic nursing qualification and it was pretty much expected that I 'd be moving up into line management ( overseeing several wards ) . |