Example sentences of "up [coord] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though apparently divorced from ‘ Cultural Progress ’ as related to the Basutu , which Eliot was also considering in 1936 , his idea of poetic drama was part of the same concern with embodying and strengthening what he had always associated with ideas of culture and community and which his dealings with the ‘ lower races ’ had helped to teach him : the need for art linked to religious ritual as a central value summing up and sustaining the social values of a culture . |
| 2 | Then he was up and levering the round boulder free , not listening to it crash down the mountain , doubting if the attackers would hear or see — and , if they did , whether they would be persuaded that it was his own body tumbling — but it was one extra little chance that cost him only a few seconds . |
| 3 | To begin with , it is more likely to get an early warning of the cheetah 's approach , for even when its own head is down grazing , other heads are up and scanning the surrounding country ready to sound an alarm with a snort . |
| 4 | All over the world we are rising up and refusing the exploited identity for which we were conditioned . |
| 5 | Having dared , with one or two others , to open the door , I feel I 've been trampled in the rush and I 'm now standing up and waving a little flag saying , ‘ No , no , this is where we should be . ' |
| 6 | It concerns an executive who passed a mental hospital on his way to work and stopped occasionally to watch an inmate going through the motions of winding up and pitching an imaginary ball . |
| 7 | Under the Government 's scheme , the Treasury will meet the costs of setting up and running a private company owned by banks to administer it . |
| 8 | The best way to treat special damages is to deal with each item of special damage in a separate paragraph and to have a final paragraph totalling them all up and giving a global figure . |
| 9 | One visiting history adviser looking at a display of old washing equipment got the infants to explain by picking up and examining an old flat iron , looking for the flex and asking " But how did they plug this in ? " |
| 10 | Once seated in Huy 's living room , Merymose relaxed , but only a little , and he could not remain in his chair long , but kept getting up and pacing the narrow space between the front door and the rear wall . |
| 11 | And er they have got it now to a state of what I would imagine almost perfection , and that is that every man , woman and child of the population of those two countries er has got adequate protection and even a woman er who wishes to go out and do shopping in the contaminated er environment has the possibility of , of suiting up and putting a special er cover on the pram of her child and actually pushing this child with a special ventilator out . |
| 12 | She is seen with Paris , whom she has persuaded to stay in Troy while his companions fight ; and Pandarus is also present , soaking up and intensifying the sensual atmosphere . |
| 13 | A rare one she is for putting her feet up and having an early supper in front of the telly you 've put in her room . ’ |