Example sentences of "was [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But I could n't remember where the turn off was to come up the scenic route . |
| 2 | As Hennessy was opening up the grey lockers at the end of the room , Donaldson spelt Bobo again . |
| 3 | He was wiring up the main hatch above the hold , in such a way that showed he was certainly not an electrician by trade , with the intention of giving a mild electric shock to anyone who might try to get into it . |
| 4 | The wounded German Officer was carried up the grassy bank and placed against a tree . |
| 5 | The drawing , along with various sketches of joints and fixings was sent to the church architects whose only alteration was to square up the curved top member to line up with the bottom panels . |
| 6 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 7 | Suddenly I was climbing up the long ladder of the North pier , the rucksack being roped afterwards . |
| 8 | She was having to repeat herself , and even then Lucy was picking up the wrong costume or completely mistaking what had been said . |
| 9 | Susan , an unwonted flush on her pale cheeks , was picking up the wet things out of the grate . |
| 10 | One of the first steps taken was to set up the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme ( EMEP ) to measure emissions and deposition of sulphur and nitrogen oxides in Europe . |
| 11 | He was shovelling up the broken glass on to a piece of cardboard . |
| 12 | I 'd been down the prom on my bike , and was riding up the posh part to our street . |
| 13 | He stroked firmly , looked over his right shoulder , stroked some more , looked over his left , then he was reversing up the stomach-churning Pipeline elevator . |
| 14 | She was coming up the central passage between the rows of tables . |
| 15 | They had to carry a table out with them , which was set up the required ten metres from the shed wall , and the pistols were laid out , and the targets pinned up . |
| 16 | He was ripping up the ruined linoleum . |
| 17 | The American cruised the Solent for a few days while Mark was tying up the loose ends , and returned to the States without paying another visit to his office . |
| 18 | I was an East End boy myself ; I was brought up the hard way . |
| 19 | The task was to break up the old bureaucratic machine and construct a new one , but one which would ‘ enable us gradually to reduce all officialdom to naught ’ ( p. 42 ) . |
| 20 | All John Smith had done was put up the white flag . |
| 21 | Bunny was chatting up the other girl , Chase was still going oompah-oompah and Martin was desperately starting his ninth solo on Tiger Rag . |
| 22 | ‘ When I was setting up the Fine Chemicals Manufacturing Organization [ FCMO ] in the early '80s , there was no doubt quality was the main way to compete more effectivey and raise performance . |
| 23 | They hammed it up in the spectacular 17th century building unaware that smoke from the candles was blacking up the beautiful hand-painted ceiling . |
| 24 | I was then brought up to this room , in which , at that point of the day , the sun was lighting up the floral patterns of the wallpaper quite agreeably . |
| 25 | Her hand was loosening his tie , his was sliding up the tingling curve of her thigh . |
| 26 | He had a sneaking suspicion Philpott had members of staff whose sole function was to dig up the personal indiscretions of those people who could be beneficial to UNACO , then use them as a form of blackmail to get what he wanted . |