Example sentences of "and [v-ing] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was always a busy , tidy little girl , going around the house at night making sure all the curtains were drawn and tucking up the zoo of small furry animals which crowded her bed — she has kept them to this day . |
| 2 | Alphonse Blaguet , a mediator appointed by President André Kolingba , was charged with setting up a preparatory committee , consulting with political parties and drawing up the agenda . |
| 3 | Although there was a break in the snowfall , the wind still blew fiercely from the north , moaning round the house and whipping up the fallen snow so that it skimmed across the fields like fine powder , piling up in deep drifts where its progress was interrupted by hedgerows . |
| 4 | Bending and whipping up the wicker basket full of odd garments , Aggie nodded hastily towards the girl , saying , ‘ Ta , lass . |
| 5 | And bringing up the end of the procession was a tribe of people whom she recognised at once as those who , like herself and Claud , had always had a little of everything and the God-given wit to use it right . |
| 6 | The Leader , following in the track of the horses , went some paces ahead scanning the forest on either side ; behind him followed Hugh , walking close by Marian 's side ; still further back , together but with the width of the track between them , were Michael and the thin man ; and bringing up the rear was Crane , the young man who had run after the horses . |
| 7 | The Whaddon and Mitchley Scouts and Guides band wound its tuneless way along the High Street , followed by six young girls lethally wielding pom-poms — the Mentle Motors Majorettes — and bringing up the rear , Reg Pybus ' Bedford minibus in which , crammed like sardines , the new team sat invisible behind the heavily steamed up windows . |
| 8 | The kick is performed by starting from a natural stance and bringing up the right leg , bent and to the side . |
| 9 | Four men-at-arms rode alongside , and bringing up the rear was another monk herding a flock of sheep and goats . |
| 10 | Armagh musical family ; Gerry McKee hails from Antrim but has spent what seems like a lifetime playing his mandocello in Clare ; Liz Doherty from Buncrana is on fiddle , and bringing up the rear is Wexford bodhran beater Frank Torpey . |
| 11 | Turning the big key in the back door and easing up the latch , Mungo began to feel free , as though now he could make his own rules and ignore the restrictions imposed by daylight . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't understand , ’ she said , sinking back into her chair and gathering up the hastily discarded slice of bread . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm going to shower , ’ Ruth told him , getting to her feet and gathering up the dirty glasses which littered th table-top . |
| 14 | Thus professionalism may be seen as expertise applied to and building up the relationship with the individual pupil , where a trusting relationship which can share information and build autonomy is seen as a goal . |
| 15 | We had great fun going round seeing everybody and building up the bidding . ’ |
| 16 | Yet mercenaries seem still to have formed only a small part of the German army ; the fief-rente was almost exclusively used to supply garrisons for castles and fortified towns ; and as the Church and its ministeriales became a less reliable source of troops , the twelfth-century emperors resorted to the practice of strengthening feudal bonds and building up the resources of their own domains . |
| 17 | Advice to parents is based on a mixture of behaviour management skills , nutritional help , reassurance , and building up the parents ’ confidence in coping with the child and at times long-term support with careful monitoring of the child 's weight and the parent-child relationship ( Douglas and Richman 1984 ) . |
| 18 | Brandt was determined to develop co-operation with eastern Europe in the hope of reducing tension in Europe and building up the independence of eastern states , and he believed that East Germany 's existence must be treated as a reality . |
| 19 | The wild Colorado would flood every spring with snowmelt from its mountain headwaters , nourishing the riverbank ecosystems , and building up the waves in the big rapids to the size of three-storey houses . |
| 20 | The presence of ice withdraws water in vapour form from distal cells , concentrating their solutions and building up the extra-cellular crystals . |
| 21 | The communiqué outlined five principles for drawing up and implementing the five- and 10-year plans : ( i ) " firmly follow the road of building socialism with Chinese characteristics " ; ( ii ) " firmly push forward reform and opening to the outside world " ; ( iii ) " firmly implement the principle of developing the national economy in a sustained , stable and co-ordinated manner " ; ( iv ) " firmly follow the principle of self-reliance , hard struggle and building up the country through thrift and diligence " ; and ( v ) " firmly implement the principle of promoting both material civilization and socialist culture and ethics " . |
| 22 | This is the spin-out 's second of three products for compressing , encrypting and speeding up the Unix file system . |
| 23 | Specific recommendations were aimed at strengthening the police , in manpower , efficiency and pay , and speeding up the process of amalgamating local forces . |
| 24 | Mr Guest insisted his company was dedicated to improving safety and speeding up the traffic flow but said there was no need for new measures to result in a loss of custom . |
| 25 | Independent research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies , ( The structure of alcohol taxes : a hangover from the past , 1990 ) and the Henley Centre for Forecasting ( Competition between alcoholic drinks : and analysis , 1991 ) has shown that , for instance , it would be perfectly possible to sustain tax revenue by levelling down the duty on spirits and levelling up the duty on wine so that all alcohol is taxed at the same rate . |
| 26 | However , independent research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies ( The Structure of Alcoholic Taxes : A Hangover from the past , 1990 ) and by the Henley Centre for Forecasting ( Competition between Alcoholic Drinks : An Analysis , 1991 ) indicates that it would be perfectly possible to sustain tax revenue by levelling down the duty on spirits , and levelling up the duty on wines and beers , so that all alcoholic drinks are taxed at the same rate of duty per degree of alcohol content . |
| 27 | For years Pakistan 's opponents have made snide remarks about their bowlers getting away with such trickery as seam-picking and scuffing up the ball , ploys which make the ball swerve off the pitch or swing further in the air . |
| 28 | It was largely due to her that Fred had been able to secure the leasehold of the cafe and build up trade by extending the seating arrangement and brightening up the fare on offer . |
| 29 | By doing business , inviting foreign experts to work and teach inside China and opening up the country to the world , progress seemed certain . |
| 30 | Justification had been the great theme of the Reformers , especially of Martin Luther , and Ritschl aimed to restore it to the centre of theology by drawing out its consequences and implications in reconciliation , and opening up the force and meaning of Christianity from that centre . |