Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] up a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether or not you will be asked to pay for your course remains at the discretion of course organisers and managers , therefore , and I am unable to give any hard and fast guidance here , other than to say that they will have to be kept at a reasonable level to be affordable , particularly by those who have been unemployed or bringing up a family . |
| 2 | Various factors could prevent the tenant from commencing to trade within a specified period and where a tenant has fitted out the premises and is paying a full rent ( or using up a rent free period ) the tenant would hopefully only delay opening for trade for a good reason . |
| 3 | I assumed the Maggot was delivering or picking up a customer , but it was none of my business , so I stripped down to my shorts and began work as Thessy , his brother Philemon and their father took a battered wooden skiff across the lagoon . |
| 4 | Adding insulation to the inner face of exterior walls involves either fixing thermal board ( plasterboard with a rigid foam backing and a built-in vapour barrier ) directly to the wall surfaces with a panel adhesive , or putting up a framework of battens with blanket insulation between them , and adding a layer of vapour-check plasterboard on top . |
| 5 | He was either concerned for the lad or thinking up a scheme of his own . |
| 6 | We 've started it in our studio , bringing their people into the city or setting up a kind of branch over there where people can work together and so you do n't get the political problems of ownerships , of people saying well that 's your idea , you know , it 's the old thing of as soon as the client thinks that it 's his idea then he wants it , and it 's very hard . |
| 7 | Being able to stay in your own home or setting up a home of your own is something that most people value greatly . |
| 8 | If instead of paid work , you are thinking of becoming self-employed or setting up a business , you will not only have the start-up costs but , as you are probably well aware , very few new enterprises make a profit during the first two or three years . |
| 9 | At any moment I expected one of the masters , placed at strategic intervals to stop a guy taking short cuts or lighting up a Havana cigar , to leap out from a place of concealment , brandishing The Times and bellowing , ‘ Come on , Britton ! |
| 10 | They are still occupying the lower status jobs , and bringing up a family has often meant interruptions to education or professional training . |
| 11 | But that staying at home and looking after the children , or whatever and bringing up a family is just as valuable as a job , or a career . |
| 12 | The purpose of this module is to provide the opportunity to explore questions of having and bringing up a family , to develop knowledge and skills in being a parent in areas selected on the basis of each individual 's needs and interests , and to help people enjoy being parents . |
| 13 | For years , the traditional method has been to use phonetics ; learning how each letter sounds and building up a word . |
| 14 | Sequins can be overlapped too , like scales ; it is really fun choosing them and building up a picture |
| 15 | Do not let this kindness on the part of the college discourage you from buying your own textbooks and building up a library of your own . |
| 16 | He crouched , and picking up a handful of soil , rubbed it through his fingers . |
| 17 | But we can say nothing to these things you know Jackson , we must jog on and be content with the jingling of the bells , only d — it , I hate a dust , and kicking up a dust , and being confined in harness while others ride in the waggon , under cover , stretching their legs in the straw at ease , and gazing at green trees and blue skies without half my Taste . |
| 18 | The picture showed a stocky man with a shock of white hair and the typical Umbrian moon-face , wearing a chequered shirt open at the neck and holding up a newspaper . |
| 19 | She was scanning the windows of the ward above , and holding up a plastic shopping bag , through which I could discern two bottles of wine and several cartons of cakes and other goodies . |
| 20 | Saved by a piano falling and holding up a beam , thank God . ’ |
| 21 | Hedges closed in on both sides , brushing the side mirrors and sending up a cloud of small white moths into the bracken scented air . |
| 22 | And blowing up a storm . |
| 23 | In a separate case , jobless waitress Lisa Chapman was fined over her pet rat Ziggy and afterwards the RSPCA defended its actions in bringing the case and running up a £600 bill . |
| 24 | You could die or go bankrupt and the house would stay basically unchanged , still mouldering slowly and running up a ransom of a heating bill … unless you were so fabulously rich that you could afford not to give a shit , in which case all arguments foundered . |
| 25 | Lack of money and bureaucratic confusion has left a legacy from the Victorian era with the state looking backwards , remodelling ancient buildings and patching up a system of care which is fragmentary , pitifully inadequate and increasingly inadequate to the elderly age group . ’ |
| 26 | Obviously Marshall , apart from daubing one of the walls and putting up a piece of cork-board , had n't done anything . |
| 27 | It 's like going to a firework factory and sparking up a cigarette you just would n't do it would you ? |
| 28 | As a result , becoming an adult and setting up a household no longer mean the same thing . |
| 29 | Where labour and manufacturing facilities are often quite economical in overseas countries and setting up a manufacturing base saves transportation costs . |
| 30 | The Reform Act of 1832 laid the foundations of electoral democracy by tidying up the system — for instance , getting rid of ‘ rotten boroughs ’ , small or almost non-existent places that could return MPs — and setting up a register of voters for the first time . |