Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He smiled as the life went out in him , looking up at the already transparent Monster . |
| 2 | PJ , however , is lining up with the very best . |
| 3 | The first sees Dawn Milligan 's Valentinos Joy , drawn favourably in trap two after winning its last two opens at Sunderland , lining up against the highly respected Belle Vue dog No Joe Soap ( trap 4 ) and Brough Park 's Movealong Sharp ( 3 ) . |
| 4 | It 's very amusing , and you 've explained it amusingly to us , but er , there 's a lot of truth , I think in er , what you say and er how can we , er make the best of these unwelcome guests who insist on turning up at the most inopportune times , when we 're trying to enjoy ourselves . |
| 5 | Yes , that 's it some odd nights we was on our way home from work , it 's going up to the even when we 're on earlies and and weekends we can go there ca n't we ? |
| 6 | Growing up in the more liberal atmosphere of secularist nationalism in the 1950s and 1960s , it was easy to forget the vigour of Islam . |
| 7 | The field for the 1986 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe was the strongest the race had offered for years , adding up to the most valuable collection of bloodstock ever assembled fur a single race in Europe . |
| 8 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 9 | Then she went through and threw herself on the comfortable cool silk bedcover , and lay in luxury , gazing up at the gently rotating white fan . |
| 10 | The battle for territory was hotting up before the today 's London peace conference under the chairmanship of Prime Minister John Major . |
| 11 | He fell back at once and lay quietly on the damp earth staring up at the now empty wall as his blood soaked into and congealed darkly upon the white of his shirt . |
| 12 | Of course , that sort of thing has a really limited audience and , because we were living in Hawaii , there was nobody there to watch us anyway , so we were coming up with the most insane stuff we could do , basically just to please ourselves ! |
| 13 | The man was n't watching the light room he saw smoke coming up under the so he went away down and there was a fire in a in the er in the library . |
| 14 | At the same time , however , he earned massive public support for standing up to the most widely feared and despised Soviet institution . |
| 15 | This power , however , was to be used according to the rules of the American Constitution , not as a means to a dictatorship like that which Hitler was setting up at the very same time in Germany . |
| 16 | Any new operation setting up in the architecturally acclaimed building would have to satisfy strict planning constraints , however . |