Example sentences of "[v-ing] up the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this chapter we will channel our energies into opening up the contradictory facets of our personalities and explore the different voices , different tones of voice , that these contradictions make available to us . |
| 2 | As Hennessy was opening up the grey lockers at the end of the room , Donaldson spelt Bobo again . |
| 3 | In addition to opening up the northern prairies , it produced a land boom in northern British Columbia , where land values rose from 50 cents an acre to 30–60 dollars an acre in the space of a few years , and created a new Pacific port at Prince Rupert , 500 miles north of Vancouver , a new town where the population reached 5,000 in the space of two years . |
| 4 | So I am encouraged in my perhaps natural naïveté , I am encouraged to be simpliste , by my knowledge of the value of complication in fogging up the real issues in politics . |
| 5 | than a poet ever could ; picking up the smallest insects |
| 6 | Picking up the Tiny Tears she grasped it to herself , cuddling the cold plastic head to her face . |
| 7 | Juliette bent down and began picking up the smashed pieces of china . |
| 8 | MELROSE , this season 's Scottish champions , added the Border League trophy to their collection last night by picking up the two points they needed under the floodlights at Mansfield Park . |
| 9 | Because i it is assumed management is learned by picking up the bad habits of your predecessor and their predecessors for the last five hundred years . |
| 10 | Susan , an unwonted flush on her pale cheeks , was picking up the wet things out of the grate . |
| 11 | He skimmed the accompanying text , which added little to what Francesca had already told him , filling up the two columns with a recital of Tristram 's career beginning with his legendary recording of ‘ Panis Angelicus ’ as a thirteen-year-old treble at St Joe 's . |
| 12 | It was the biggest comprehensive school in the area ( purpose-built , as the Head never tired of saying ) , and every morning two thousand pupils streamed into its gates , navy blue and yellow waves breaking over the grassy slopes , spreading themselves through the corridors , filling up the empty rooms . |
| 13 | People began filling up the empty seats . |
| 14 | He sat with a small radar screen in front of him , writing up the small strips that are used by controllers all over the world , strips that have all the different aircraft information on them . |
| 15 | First of all we slide the top and the bottom of the mast together , lining up the red dots and then we touch the halyard . |
| 16 | Then there 's er the door the door at forty feet and there 's er a gunmetal ladder going up the forty feet you 've got to climb up to get into the door . |
| 17 | The two countries also agreed to joint projects aimed at cleaning up the Baltic waters . |
| 18 | The equivalent of US$2 million was allocated last year for cleaning up the polluted areas , but specialists say this is not nearly enough . |
| 19 | The ticket clerk , who is a villainous-looking Copt , is apparently adding up the monetary results of his last night 's murders , and dislikes being interrupted . |
| 20 | In fact , adding up the various amounts , the social welfare gain is the shaded area FQLK in total . |
| 21 | The simplest method of calculating the price index for 1985 is to find the total of the unit prices charged in 1984 ( by adding up the three prices for that year ) and the total of the unit prices charged in 1985 and then to express the latter as a percentage of the former . |
| 22 | You 're also prone to dredging up the wounding words and cutting critiques others have directed at you recently . |
| 23 | It is an openness to life as it is , without falsification and without cosmetically touching up the serious flaws in human nature . |
| 24 | Too often we are faced with clamouring up the slippery slopes to the law more than sliding down them . |
| 25 | By nightfall , ten thousand victims of the explosion had invaded the Red Cross Hospital , and Dr Sasaki , worn out , was moving aimlessly and dully up and down the stinking corridors with wads of bandages and bottles , binding up the worst cuts as he came to them . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm going to shower , ’ Ruth told him , getting to her feet and gathering up the dirty glasses which littered th table-top . |
| 27 | If the tile has simply slipped out of place but is undamaged ( that is , it still has its hanging ‘ nibs ’ on the back ) , you should be able to slide it back into place after easing up the surrounding tiles under wood wedges . |
| 28 | ‘ Your Grace , I and two others were some way behind , bringing up the spare horses , and came on the scene only in time to see Sir Edmund at grips , and the battle all but done . |
| 29 | TWO heartbroken families may be bringing up the wrong babies . |
| 30 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |