Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With natural neatness a new career is opening up to replace the old . |
| 2 | You have to be careful not to add too many of course , ending up knitting the next size . |
| 3 | It 's possible to spend the entire night enjoying oneself and ending up having a good Copenhagen breakfast of meat and cheese , yoghurt and wienerbrød … ’ |
| 4 | I have to look at the matter more broadly , and consider also the effect of a valid assignment made before winding up became an imminent prospect . |
| 5 | When you have picked up stitches , for example to knit on a neckband , or when picking up to make a sideways knitted front band , if the edge is a bit rough it is a very good idea to bring the needles holding the picked up edges or stitches out to E position before knitting across with the side levers at 0 . |
| 6 | Fancy teaming up to shoot a few goals in a dynamic , fast growing team sport ? |
| 7 | The voice startled him and he spun round , looking up to see a young woman standing there . |
| 8 | But despite their superstar status , the band refuse to change their lifestyle and have snubbed the showbiz establishment — turning up to collect a recent award in their pyjamas . |
| 9 | Even worse , opponents ' wives are turning up to keep a beady eye on proceedings . |
| 10 | Companies rushing up to endorse the still nameless IBM Corp-Hewlett-Packard Co-Sun Microsystems Inc common user interface for Unix effort ( CI No 2,130 ) include Software AG , IBM 's Personal Software Products division , Computer Associates International Inc , Unisys Corp and Ask Computer Systems Inc ; the Object Management Group stood in the wings enthusiastically applauding . |
| 11 | We will be asked why , given the evidence of the time , when EFTA and the east European countries were queueing up to join the tighter Community that was being proposed , we allowed ourselves to be left outside . |
| 12 | In others the high cumulus is breaking up to give a lovely summer evening . |
| 13 | In sharp contrast to her mood , the rain had gone and the clouds were breaking up to reveal a blue sky . |
| 14 | Joint Sovereignty won over the course and distance winner when getting up to beat the smart Golden Freeze a neck in the Mackeson Gold Cup . |
| 15 | Are you staying up to see the New Year in ? ’ |
| 16 | Instead of joining up to defeat the many-headed monster I mentioned earlier , today 's record collectors sometimes seem to be their own worst enemies . |
| 17 | What one can be absolutely sure about is that giving up does the other side 's work for them , and ruins all your own possible futures and other people 's as well . |
| 18 | Tabitha hung her bag on her shoulder and came walking nonchalantly down from the cockpit , not even glancing up to see the great cables gliding rapidly down towards her head . |
| 19 | Suddenly the dogs scampered off , and she saw them jumping up to greet a dark figure . |
| 20 | She barely mouthed the word , but already , as if she was possessed by something beyond her control , her hands were reaching up to touch the black curl of his hair , agonisingly shy as she felt the clean , silky texture beneath her fingers . |
| 21 | And still she did not go , but hovered , touching with long fingers along his shelves of vessels , reaching up to rustle the hanging bunches of herbs overhead , keeping only her profile towards him . |
| 22 | They will meekly pay up including making up amounts the Labour fringe refuses to pay . |
| 23 | Warming up has an ironic meaning in the tropics . |
| 24 | Doctors are all very well , but mountain climbing doctors are all bonkers in my experience , mutant crosses between James Robertson Justice , Rab C Nesbitt and Evel Knievel , eternally setting up drips the better and faster to imbibe Old Scrotum 's Real Brain Shrinking Liver Ale . |
| 25 | We were nearly a mile and a quarter out , the set was another quarter away from us , and already it was fleecy at the top , throwing up spray a hundred yards in the air . |
| 26 | People are queuing up to join the voluntary scheme . |