Example sentences of "and [v-ing] up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I need n't be frightened of the mole-woman : she 'd be too busy making beds and totting up last night 's proceeds to wonder whether I was a truant from a Youth Custody Centre or a prostitute on an overnight break . |
| 2 | Through hard work by the local Historic Scotland works squad , cleaning paths and mopping up residual oil , it proved possible to open the monument for the season on 1 April as planned , with access to the entrances of the prehistoric buildings roped of for the time being . |
| 3 | It is establishing and keeping up mutual understanding between an organisation and the people it wants to reach . |
| 4 | James stared about him with uninhibited curiosity , staring closely at the paintings and prints which covered the walls , poking his nose into tea caddies and picking up any object which took his fancy . |
| 5 | Cocooned in an ivory tower of antique furniture and unfinished jigsaw puzzles , she spends an inordinate amount of time doing simple things like pouring hot water into a teapot ; then she gets on the telephone to her friends and either hangs up just as they reach the receiver or asks them if they would n't mind coming round to tea and picking up some skate from the fishmonger on the way . |
| 6 | As the European Court delays are providing a valuable premium for some people and holding up injunctive relief in this country , should not further representations be made to the European Court to deal with the problem as an injunctive matter so that certainty is quickly returned to the courts of this country ? |
| 7 | Annie is notorious for lots of things : leaving her dismal clergyman husband , joining Charles Bradlaugh in defence of birth control , urging the London matchgirls to strike , taking up theosophy and stirring up Hindu nationalism in ways many Indian leaders thought dangerous . |
| 8 | Oh he and coming up that passage , run and jump right up on me by getting up my shirt . |
| 9 | Two weeks ago he was in London , staying in Belgravia and sewing up another deal . |
| 10 | The maids in houses also wash up under running water , using all the hot water and soap and running up large electricity bills . |
| 11 | Wilfred Harte , 65 , was enraged because they were always watching TV and running up big electricity bills , the Old Bailey heard . |
| 12 | Even so , he did his best , becoming an expert coxswain and taking up Olympic weight-lifting . |
| 13 | This involves creating a list of categories such as ‘ takes lead ’ or ‘ follows ’ , ‘ gives orders ’ or ‘ obeys orders ’ , ‘ works out of doors ’ or ‘ works indoors ’ , ‘ mends car ’ or ‘ does housework ’ , and counting up each occasion on which the characters in the book do these things . |
| 14 | Rake For levelling dug soil , creating a fine surface tilth for sowing , working in fertiliser and raking up any plant debris . |
| 15 | Fry , dismissed by the 20-stone ticket-broker for the third time yesterday , wo n't be kissing and making up this time … he 'll sue for wrongful dismissal . |
| 16 | The early years were war years — the horror of news , and fear of raids , and blackness at night , and poor food , and sitting up all night , and very earnest prayer . |
| 17 | Much impressed with my narrow escape , Dad carried the object downstairs on top of the sand in the fire bucket — it did come in handy after all — and we sat around gazing at it , drinking the inevitable tea and storing up this tale to pass on to all our friends and relations . |
| 18 | Besides the planning element of opening up views and vistas — even in the smallest of gardens — and dividing up available space with walls and hedges , pergolas and arches , the book has plenty of ideas on which plants to choose for planting on given colour themes . |
| 19 | The problem of making managers accountable , monitoring performance and setting up effective control systems . |
| 20 | Sipping a gin and tonic and lighting up another Camel cigarette , he says : ‘ It 's almost impossible to find a decent barman in England . |
| 21 | I 've had another word with Personnel and they say that even though I ca n't have any more full-timers , I can have a part-timer to help me with making the sandwiches in the morning and clearing up last thing at night . |
| 22 | Lourdes , one of the Marian shrines most loved by the Christian people , is both a place and a symbol of hope and grace , characterised by accepting and offering up redemptive suffering . |