Example sentences of "up [coord] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | A quota is established by dividing the total number of valid votes by the number of members to be elected plus one , and rounding up or adding one to the quotient . |
2 | Damon kept rolling them up and using them as megaphones . |
3 | Pages were put together by gathering the material up and roughing it into a layout based round the principal hooks — the headlines and pictures which were the only things that really mattered . |
4 | Eventually Don grappled with the critical section , and with a quick windmill of arms and legs was up and establishing himself on the next stance . |
5 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
6 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
7 | Unless you intend tying me up and locking me in my room ? ’ |
8 | Indeed the only real drawback , if you can call it that , is that people are continually coming up and congratulating us on our victory over England . ’ |
9 | Maybe Jack was rounding them up and moving them to another field . |
10 | ‘ I was chubby even as a baby and it was n't helped as a child by the fact that my mum believed in always feeding me up and rewarding everything with sweets . |
11 | And after several attempts to break the shell open by picking it up and dropping it onto the rocks , well that did n't work , so the bird picked it up and then from a about a height of twenty feet it dropped it onto the rocks below . |
12 | you want to see me , I get up three times to rake ashes er out and then I go int the kitchen in that cupboard , gerra newspaper and I 'm here screwing it up and throwing it on fireplace . |
13 | Although I keep pulling it up and throwing it in the dustbin , it keeps coming back . |
14 | It 's just that it would have been nice to have seen the signs , ’ said Caspar , rolling the maps up and packing them in his saddle bag . |
15 | Jekyll lived in fear of waking up and finding himself in Hyde 's body , with all Hyde 's evil passions . |
16 | ‘ This is for you , ’ he said , picking it up and offering it to her . |
17 | She enjoyed picking the loosened brick up and weighing it in her right hand before swinging her arm to sling it on to the rubble pile . |
18 | DEFINITION : Research is ringing someone up and asking them for other people 's names . |
19 | Short of tripping her up and hitting her over the head , goodness only knew . |
20 | They kept bloody coming up and hitting you in the face . |
21 | This can become a real problem unless the situation is handled cautiously , because simply lifting the dog up and placing it in the car will be counter-productive . |
22 | You should n't be lifting it up and putting it at back of your head ! |
23 | The men used two cars to force the driver to stop on a main road before tying him up and abandoning him in woods . |