Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of the thirties it must have seemed as if the world was opening up at an astonishing rate , but by the end of the decade it had closed to all but those on active military service . |
| 2 | Heath and his colleagues next abolished the parliament and constitution of Northern Ireland in defiance of all Commonwealth constitutional precedent and despite the fact that the action was a unilateral tearing up of an international treaty registered at the League of Nations . |
| 3 | In this case , however , it may be that present sea level coincides with an older sea level to so close a degree that the erosion platform merely represents the trimming up of an earlier one . |
| 4 | The royal couple 's individual humanity , rather than their status , has made most impact ; Charles 's unflagging curiosity , reports of Diana shaking hands with a leper in Indonesia , her instinctive picking up of an old woman 's dropped walking-stick . |
| 5 | Grant found himself looking up at an attractive dark haired nurse . |
| 6 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 7 | The paper had been relaunched by Maurice Kinn , a successful London agent and promoter who , by turning up at an agreed location on the stroke of noon with £1,000 pounds of borrowed cash in hand , acquired the title and promptly added the New . |
| 8 | For instance , how many people have watched a woman carrying a load of shopping and a three year old child , or cleaning up after an incontinent elderly relation , and still been able to maintain that some jobs are too heavy and dirty for women ? |
| 9 | For so many British children , growing up in an inner city area could mean missing out on so many things they need to grow up healthy and secure . |
| 10 | Middle child Seth called himself ‘ an addictive personality growing up in an alcoholic household ’ , honing his skills of deceit and manipulation . |
| 11 | During negotiations leading up to an economic transaction , choice theories insist that no legal obligations should arise since the parties have not yet reached an agreement . |
| 12 | If I stand at the window ( which I am not going to do ) I can see a small fat man with a trilby hat , a British warm and what looks like a binocular case , standing down below on the other side of the road and peering up with an anxious concentration at this battered , paint-peeling semi-circle of so-called Mansion Flats . |
| 13 | The herring gull has only a small chance of grabbing a nestling in the face of such opposition , and no chance whatever of sneaking up on an unguarded chick unnoticed by adults . |
| 14 | The sight of Peter Rabbit hanging up in an old-fashioned butcher 's window brings tears to our eyes , while pretty pink portions prepared and hacked by the supermarket cause no such qualms . |
| 15 | A curious old lady , seeing the horse collar hanging up in an unusual position , exclaimed peevishly : ‘ What 's this for ? |
| 16 | They were catching up with an interrupted past , not forestalling a proletarian future . |
| 17 | The east end is apsidal and the church is blockish , building up in an impressive composition to an octagonal tower ( 275 ) . |
| 18 | I used to do a job which involved getting up at an unearthly hour while , as far as I could tell , the rest of the world slept . |
| 19 | Computer models show that the best way of coming up with an inflationary universe that shows the same degree of clumpiness as the real one is to use dark matter that is ‘ cold ’ . |
| 20 | It was argued that the government 's policy towards Austin Rover could be viewed as an attempt to slim down the company through rationalisation and privatise parts as they became profitable ( eg Jaguar ) , finishing up with an unprofitable rump which had very little chance of long-term viability on its own . |
| 21 | ‘ He was 'ere making up to an honest travellin' lass . ’ |
| 22 | It was plainly a hungry leopard , for it was creeping up on an unsuspecting black-naped hare , an animal that would hardly have provided more than a couple of mouthfuls . |
| 23 | At the same time he or she is backing up in an eccentric centre circle so that the flight pattern resembles that of the snail design . |
| 24 | ( b ) in requiring the measurement or weighing up of an historical problem . |
| 25 | With the edge of the island visible on either side , Manhattan sits in murky river , an absurd chunk of metropolis looking like a Gothic spaceship working up to an explosive departure from the planet . |