Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [v-ing] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could see a man with a ladder up against the cinema putting up the new poster , and the small round figure of Peggy Pine coming out of her dress shop to stand and look admiringly at her window display . |
| 2 | So , for the Leningrad group Zoo , ‘ Subterranean Homesick Blues ’ became ‘ Suburb Blues ’ and the lyrics ‘ Johnny 's in the basement mixing up the medicine I 'm on the pavement thinking 'bout the government ’ became ‘ I 'm sitting in the toilet and reading Rolling Stone/Venichka is in the kitchen pouring samogon ’ ( home-made vodka ) . |
| 3 | In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven . |
| 4 | He waited , the hair crisping up the back of his head . |
| 5 | Share options are more attractive than outright share purchases because there is no risk of a loss being made by the employee taking up the option if share prices fall . |
| 6 | In what seemed to him to be the far distance he could see Mariana and the President climbing up the meadow to meet him . |
| 7 | Joyce joined the advertising department as secretary in 1979 and moved to special projects eight years later to work in the department setting up the in-store coffee shops . |
| 8 | He 's just adjusting his outfit as he 's in the car driving up the Tadcaster road and he looks with horror . |
| 9 | Tracy , of Derwent Street , Darlington , yesterday recovering from her ordeal , said she was walking by herself to the video shop when she heard the car racing up the alley . |
| 10 | Therefore , where the tread is below 1.6 mm depth in the middle of the tread and around the circumference of the tyre it is no good the defendant adding up the ‘ bits ’ on either side of the worn part to try to make a good three-quarters . |
| 11 | The Statute Setting up the State Asset Agency |
| 12 | It invited the institutions of the European Community to employ all means to ensure that the act setting up the European anti-drug monitoring body could be adopted before June 30 , 1992 . |
| 13 | He doubted if these boys had been playing soccer — Hurstdown 's sporting young gentlemen would surely scorn such a plebeian game — and , sure enough , the boy bringing up the rear , older and taller than the rest and evidently in charge , was clutching a rugby ball to his chest . |
| 14 | The soft , tight band strapped around her arm was nevertheless a comfort , as the pointer pushing up the dial , achieving a number , was a comfort , too , for now something was being done , someone would give her treatment to ward off the attacks of death . |
| 15 | As we pulled our tuxedos over our damp shirts and straightened our bow ties we could hear the band striking up the bridal march . |
| 16 | In the background are members of the team setting up the system . |
| 17 | Directly into a drain , so we never s that 's why we did n't see it , because the water was actually pouring down a drain , so of course we did n't see the water lolling up the waterlogged ground , otherwise we 'd have spotted it earlier . |
| 18 | I just make them see the colour going up the stem of a plant . |
| 19 | I 've already explained to you how I 've worked myself into the ground setting up the interview . |
| 20 | Something filled the little window where they had entered , occluded the light coming from it , the roar carrying up the vent like thunder . |
| 21 | I objected in Committee and in the House tonight to his implication — it was not stated in so many words — that the £780 million would be paid locally by the other people in the area picking up the bill for the single-person households . |
| 22 | A week or two back I caught the 17.18 ex Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth , which has a change at Machynlleth for Aberystwyth passengers with the train proceeding up the coast . |
| 23 | When I got there they were already out on the beach sizing up the surf . |
| 24 | Not content with this triumph , Joseph Thomas turned his attention to the groyne at the mouth of the harbour which attempted , not very successfully , to prevent sand from the beach silting up the harbour mouth . |
| 25 | I like the idea of the pipe going up the er up the inside d' ya know what I mean ? |
| 26 | Un the side of the road climbing up the Oa , at Cragabus , a much disturbed cist of three chambers contained unburnt human bones and a few pot sherds . |
| 27 | Again , it 's a very interesting feature of our system and not widely understood I do n't think that magistrates are also judges of the Crown Court under the legislation setting up the Crown Court and magistrates do sit in the Crown Court , but these days there 's considerable contact between the magistracy and the Crown Court . |
| 28 | She could feel the tip probing up the leg of her panties and she knew it should not be there . |
| 29 | The Evangelicals recommend ‘ Ragged Schools ’ , Sunday schools , and regular churchgoing as the cure ; they agreed with the Benthamites that education was the ladder leading up the economic scale . |
| 30 | Donna looked up and saw the steward coming up the aisle . |