Example sentences of "[v-ing] up the [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Braque , on the other hand , has used Cézanne 's technique of opening up the contours of objects , so that in his paintings the eye slips inwards and upwards from plane to plane without having to make a series of abrupt transitions or adjustments . |
| 2 | Commenting on the grant , Alex Wright of the Commission said , ‘ We welcome this grant and we hope it will assist Lancashire County Council in opening up the rights of way network by dealing with several major problems and paths that need modifications . ’ |
| 3 | She hurried back down the stairs to find Will mopping up the remains of his soup from the stone-flagged kitchen floor . |
| 4 | Tiny figures with wands of fire were milling about the canalside , hopping from boat to boat , their shadows leaping up the faces of the buildings on the other bank as the fleeting light caught them and threw them about . |
| 5 | There are so many to admire … the young river , rushing headlong over the Linn of Dee … salmon leaping up the Falls of Feugh … the austere beauty and grandeur of mountain scenery always surrounds you in this gloriously unspoilt land . |
| 6 | Picking up the feelings of the other person |
| 7 | Fabia felt a nibble of excitement get to her as she ran a comb through her long golden hair , and even found that there were traces of a smile picking up the corners of her mouth . |
| 8 | ‘ They look to be part of a community and picking up the rules of the culture . |
| 9 | Picking up the pieces of his career , Hunt managed to move into F– at the end of the year . |
| 10 | A senior corporation planner in the Northeast , who spends most of his time not so much planning as picking up the pieces of careless politics , recalled the principle of high-rise : |
| 11 | Picking up the pieces of your life for you . |
| 12 | It would be nice to think their affair had meant something to him , and after Seville he was picking up the pieces of his life and had found happiness with another woman . |
| 13 | Mark Bottomley is picking up the pieces of his life after being beaten around the head with a piece of scaffolding . |
| 14 | This time he seems to be picking up the signals of some approaching hostility towards him . |
| 15 | She waited until it had stalked away before picking up the remains of the Geiger-Muller counter and dropping them into the holdall . |
| 16 | Alex poured herself another glass of wine and sipped it slowly , saving up the details of her father 's assignation in order to tell David when he got back . |
| 17 | There are some boys and girls going away to school , their fathers and mothers filling up the moments of waiting with many injunctions in order to shut out their anxieties which their children must not see . |
| 18 | I 've stayed at my desk until half past seven , writing up the minutes of our meeting at the Treasury — even doing a little preparation for a series of consultations I have to begin tomorrow in connection with the Annual Assessment . |
| 19 | In New Zealand 's ’ King Country' — so called because of the Maori kings who fought a guerrilla war against the settling English — Maori lads fresh from rounding up the droves of merino sheep from the bush clad hills would have a night out in the one horse town and go to the fleapit . |
| 20 | He found himself looking up the skirts of a girl dancing by , and he rolled across the floor in an attempt to keep up with her . |
| 21 | Since the problem is that of the blood vessels dilating and constricting due to lack of oestrogen , topping up the levels of oestrogen ( the essence of HRT ) causes the flushes to lessen within days , before disappearing . |
| 22 | She did this by lining up the nuclei of radioactive atoms in a magnetic field , so that they were all spinning in the same direction , and showed that the electrons were given off more in one direction than another . |
| 23 | The window was full of magazines , lying edge to edge and hanging in yellowed cellophane wrappers from clothes-pegs : she was reminded of playing shop as a child , and lining up the tins of food and boxes of soap flakes and bags of flour , all in miniature . |
| 24 | You are also turning up the relics of perennial weeds that can be difficult to eliminate later . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh ! ’ she breathed blissfully , and , with an impish smile turning up the corners of her mouth , ‘ Do n't stop there . ’ |
| 26 | In management reports it is often worth adding up the columns of figures that are presented . |
| 27 | ( In the seventeenth century Bishop Ussher calculated a date of 4004 B.C. for the creation of the universe , a figure he arrived at by adding up the ages of people in the Old Testament . ) |
| 28 | Mr Waigel hoped to go to Munich ; Mr Kohl would move someone better at adding up the costs of German unity to the finance ministry . |
| 29 | So though these remarks are addressed to beginners , I believe that some of the formal ideas could well be considered anew by the great number of talented young composers who are either clambering up the rungs of the ladder of fame or jostling for a foothold . |
| 30 | Remember to keep these screws well back , to be hidden by the frame , because although the Faithful kneeling at the altar are meant to have their minds on other things , this is professional woodwork and we do n't want them peering up the legs of our fixings . |