Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A stupid game dedicated to shoring up the notion that they did not want to play together . |
| 2 | Much has been written on opening up a dialogue and creating collaboration on reading between home and school . |
| 3 | Justification had been the great theme of the Reformers , especially of Martin Luther , and Ritschl aimed to restore it to the centre of theology by drawing out its consequences and implications in reconciliation , and opening up the force and meaning of Christianity from that centre . |
| 4 | While this may seem like hard work , the benefits to be gained , in terms of opening up the fingerboard and greater harmonic awareness , are invaluable . |
| 5 | Then they re-peopled the village , opening up the doors and window vents of all the cottages , and letting the moorland winds blow through , raising up spectres of dust and shrouds of dislodged spider 's web . |
| 6 | On occasions like these , friends of Burton reported , he would counter-attack by releasing his temper , tearing up the room and making it quite clear and genuinely credible that whatever they did , said or tried on he would do just whatever he wanted . |
| 7 | Tired as they were , they stumbled through the dark hours , picking themselves up when they fell , keeping up a pace that left no time for thought or speech . |
| 8 | ‘ So you write to your family , keeping up a pretence that all is well with your world ? |
| 9 | He should still be inside , keeping up the pressure until he forced the truth out of her . |
| 10 | The claims of the opponents of monopoly turned out to be reasonably justified ; more and more slaves were shipped across the Atlantic by the independent traders , and the government found itself drawn further and further into keeping up the forts that provided English traders with a base of operations in West Africa . |
| 11 | A wife can be busy bunging up a family and so taken up with their affairs that she fails to give her husband real attention . |
| 12 | Erm it is a social gathering and whether people get er , er get rooked er , they get done or whether they get a bargain or whatever happens , they , they seem to enjoy it , but nevertheless it 's done according to whether you want to make money , the person owning the land wants to make a bit of money , there are a number of entrepeneurs who actually arrange and the middleman who actually goes round booking up the sites and so when you 're talking about charity a charity will get it organised for you by an entre , entrepeneur and then there 's the er the er the traders themselves , some of whom may be purely independent , some the , some may be obviously dealing with that ta erm that kind of aspect which is not exactly possibly legal . |
| 13 | After dinner the Colonel gave all the officers tasks , such as playing bridge , winding up the gramophone or reading suitable books . |
| 14 | Yeah , but you know that the Goodey report makes it quite clear that the employer is responsible for starting the scheme , winding up the scheme and increasing or decreasing the contributions . |
| 15 | In France there had already been speculation , followed by disaster , when John Law persuaded the government to unite all the French colonies into a single vast Company for trading up the Mississippi and in the Indies , which was then used as the base for a wild expansion of the French currency . |
| 16 | I remember walking up the fairway and saying to him , ‘ You 're not that good ! ’ |
| 17 | No , I was walking up the ramps and it was ripped out of my hand actually . |
| 18 | The rowing boat near the weir — only this time they had gone too far and Uncle Albert was not strong enough to row them back to safety ; the study at Uncle Albert 's house looking warm and friendly and inviting ; the professor beetle shouting rude instructions at some little beetles that had got into difficulty ; again a glimpse of her uncle 's study ; then a turnstile — one of those that only turn one way , so once you have passed through it you ca n't get back ; playful light beams now shrieking with fear as they hurtle past the window to their destruction ; walking up the down-escalator and not being able to get anywhere ; yet another brief snatch of the study … |
| 19 | Below the nesting area the slopes were rich with vegetation , enriched by bird-droppings , and we were climbing up the slope when we became aware that a polar bear with a big cub was ‘ grazing ’ on the slope . |
| 20 | However , he is climbing up the weights and may find this trip a shade on the short side . |
| 21 | Say they just going for a walk , yeah , and you come across this , say this young kid has been climbing up the trees and hurt his leg , you 're the only person around , so you , you 've got to get help yeah , cos he 's losing a lot of blood , but you 've got to stop his blood same time as you 've got to get help , yeah , so what 's the priority , you just stay |
| 22 | It was like awakening each morning in a garden in the country , though Gerry had cursed something awful , matching up the roses and rosebuds on the uneven walls . |
| 23 | Toning up the heart and lungs leads to a more effective supply of oxygen to the blood which in turn is supplied more quickly to the muscles , enabling us to stave off exhaustion . |
| 24 | Answer the telephone promptly and make a habit of picking up a pencil and notepad at the same time — being kept waiting will make the caller impatient . |
| 25 | Soundlessly she mimed picking up a phone and speaking into it . |
| 26 | And others she did n't recognize : a young woman from over the sea , sometimes dressed in a nun 's habit , sometimes holding a clear-handled gun ; a foreign man , dark-complexioned and dangerous , his hands red with blood ; a beautiful young-old man with generous lips , picking up a guitar and smiling ; and a man in a tropical suit , with a deathshead skull behind his smile . |
| 27 | When the opportunity beckoned , he made his point by the simple expedient of picking up a worm and popping it into the panting youngster 's mouth . |
| 28 | The Queen is very quick at picking up a clue and following it through without giving the game away . |
| 29 | Richardson was extraordinarly charismatic , dressed in very tight trousers and thigh-length boots — which may have had something to do with my infatuation — and he characterised Richard as a man of great vanity , constantly picking up a mirror and checking himself in it . |
| 30 | How can you all believe in that sort of thing ! ’ she said , picking up a book and pretending to read it . |