Example sentences of "and [v-ing] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there was a break in the snowfall , the wind still blew fiercely from the north , moaning round the house and whipping up the fallen snow so that it skimmed across the fields like fine powder , piling up in deep drifts where its progress was interrupted by hedgerows . |
| 2 | The kick is performed by starting from a natural stance and bringing up the right leg , bent and to the side . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm going to shower , ’ Ruth told him , getting to her feet and gathering up the dirty glasses which littered th table-top . |
| 4 | The presence of ice withdraws water in vapour form from distal cells , concentrating their solutions and building up the extra-cellular crystals . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , well , ’ she said , bending down and picking up the little frog , ‘ what have we here then ? ’ |
| 6 | Agrippa smiled , going up beside the doctor and picking up the white rose . |
| 7 | No more being shy and going up the high one . |
| 8 | The most common reasons cited for cutting audit fees were reducing the number of external auditors and beefing up the internal audit departments . |
| 9 | After obliging the last autonomous ruler of the Ukrainian heartland to resign ( in 1764 ) and breaking up the Ukrainian Cossacks ( in 1775 ) , Catherine the Great had subjected Ukrainians to the poll tax and extended to their territory her reform of Russian provincial administration . |
| 10 | He must have been crouched behind a bank of snow watching him all the time as he came struggling and panting up the long slope . |
| 11 | Carson started to climb the stairs , passing some stacks of yellow newsprint and a bicycle which was chained to the rotting wood of the balustrade , before turning and starting up the next flight . |
| 12 | In a thousand remote little farmhouses and cottages , islanded beneath wind-shriven willows or leaning poplars , the racing floods covered the black fields , overflowed the straight dykes … and leaping upon those lonely homes with all the relentless force of wind and gales , burst open the doors , shattered the ground floor windows … and rushed gurgling and swirling up the narrow staircase . |
| 13 | Erm Other areas in which I 've lived in I lived in the in an area in Hull , where the whole of this inner city area was revitalized simply by giving things new front doors and new gutters and drainage and tidying up the small gardens that there were , and providing things such as railings . |
| 14 | Checking a positive climb and flicking up the quick-retracting gear I concentrated on the slow process of building speed , getting the flaps in at 130 and maintaining a gentle increase in height with steady acceleration to 170 knots , when the nose can be raised for 3,000 fpm to show on the VSI as she really starts to go . |
| 15 | Even the rain no longer seemed fresh : it congealed in the sullied air , splattering into filthy stinking puddles , hammering the roof and churning up the packed mud until it was slushy and loose . |