Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time , gently stretch upwards for 10 counts , trying to pull up a bit further with each count . |
| 2 | The council is in the process of trying to clean up the allotment area . |
| 3 | She 'd had difficulty in sleeping these past few nights , although she was exhausted from trying to clean up the house after she finished work each day . |
| 4 | THEY may be trying to patch up the rift in their marriage . |
| 5 | It may well be worth trying to gum up the joint with a mastic sealant or self-adhesive bitumastic flashing rather than going to all the trouble of dismantling the system : use the sealant on the joints even if you do dismantle and reassemble them . |
| 6 | I am trying to open up the moor by re-seeding and protecting the heather . ’ |
| 7 | so it 's a bit trying to set up a system |
| 8 | I am trying to set up a seminar on Ethics in Communications ( which may also touch on more general issues of ethics and management ) — do you have any relevant texts of which you might send me a complimentary copy and to which reference could be made in the publicity for what should prove a stimulating event ! |
| 9 | Linda describes the details of their daily lives , the problems that arose in trying to set up a network of support that was sufficient , stable and yet not undermining of the women 's growing independence , and the different reactions of Elizabeth and Helen to their new life . |
| 10 | Another civilian was trying to set up a camera and tripod to photograph the scene and everybody was trying to sidestep the vomit on the carpet . |
| 11 | At the point where the program is trying to set up the tutorial files it reports that it is unable to find ‘ Festina Text ’ and skips the entire operation . |
| 12 | We were closely involved in trying to set up the transport arrangements : we had to get the airforce to ferry the pieces from Phnom Penh to Bangkok and then the Australian national carrier Qantas to bring them to Australia . ’ |
| 13 | I had been trying to pick up a barman in a pub in Hammersmith . |
| 14 | Page two , trying to pick up the bit at over the bottom of the door . |
| 15 | A developer trying to buy up a site in a city comes across an owner who charges a ridiculously high price . |
| 16 | Or have you bought someone a present and then spent ages trying to cover up the price printed on the packaging ? |
| 17 | Vidal , whose portfolio was taken over by Victor Yamamoto Miyakawa , accused the government of trying to cover up the seriousness of the disease 's spread . |
| 18 | Maybe she was just trying to cover up the fact that she minds about my being illegitimate . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Anyway , who owns this place ? ’ she went on , trying to cover up the fact that she had been thrown rather off balance by that last challenge . |
| 20 | He bumbled around for a bit , trying to coil up the string and push the wood into tidy heaps . |
| 21 | Perhaps that was why he had embarked , without capital , on trying to put up a building , though god knows this would have no long life in Manhattan . |
| 22 | ‘ Maybe they were trying to put up a smoke-screen . |
| 23 | They 've been taken as typical of the senior editors and right across every function area is is covered by that and I 've got erm sample job descriptions for all the editorial levels and I can get them for any other secretarial levels or design and I can acquire those if you want to see what has been done in terms of trying to draw up a framework , you know , that kind of thing . |
| 24 | Matt Lynch , manager of the environmental services department of IIRS , outlined for the conference the difficulties that legislation presents when trying to draw up a strategy for pollution control . |
| 25 | He did n't believe in the idea of people possessed by devils , because it seemed to him that that was only a way of trying to tidy up the world by pigeon-holing everything . |
| 26 | Instantly it rang — Philippa trying to fix up a dinner date . |
| 27 | As though trying to use up a bit of space , the garage ( for a single car ) was situated a hundred yards from the house , up a separate track . |
| 28 | That 's why I 'm trying to fill up the gap with a few concerts , but of course I 'm not good enough for the big dates , it will be mostly provincial engagements . |
| 29 | In Timisoara , Sorinne , a young Romanian journalist , is trying to start up a student newspaper . |
| 30 | She was trying to chat up the boy who was serving . |