Example sentences of "[n mass] [v-ing] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | While a gravel tidy with too fine a mesh will soon block , one with too large a mesh can see the fry ending up in the gravel bed below and the parents trying to get at them . |
| 2 | The increase in the adult rate is £1 going up to £14 . |
| 3 | We could hear the aircraft revving up at their dispersal points and then one by one taking off , labouring to get their weight off the ground before they ran out of runway . |
| 4 | PE is also a natural staging post for SAAF aircraft transiting up and down the coast . |
| 5 | The volume of data making up a single MSS image places some restrictions on its use . |
| 6 | ‘ My dear , I must tell you , so amUsing ’ , one whispers to the other , ‘ Monsieur *** de *** , FAR from being happily married as everyone thought , apparently spends the ENTIRE time when he 's in London clad in very ODD lederhosen in some pizzeria opposite the Knightsbridge barracks picking up little leather boys . ’ |
| 7 | Was it gentry folk coming up for their holidays ? |
| 8 | Another kind of cloudiness is caused by the fish stirring up mud and sediment on the floor of the pool . |
| 9 | The Giraffe cat is an interesting looking fish reaching up to 36″ ( 90cm ) , but not often above 18″ ( 45cm ) . |
| 10 | The eagle , however , is quite capable of catching live fish weighing up to 3 lb ( 1.4 kg ) if they are careless enough to bask near the surface . |
| 11 | Once out of its range , however , he quickly whipped the animal on again and was soon able to announce : ‘ The Barracks coming up . |
| 12 | The comics come from all over the world and there were people queueing up to see it when we opened last Saturday . ’ |
| 13 | He argued that rational people drawing up a just social contract would only be willing to grant governments the power to punish to the extent that was necessary to protect themselves from the crimes of others . |
| 14 | THE switchboard of The Northern was jammed yesterday morning with people phoning up with the answer to Saturday 's Stiff Little Fingers competition . |
| 15 | Yeah but you do n't know whether it 's not er people phoning up to find out who 's there and whether he 's there and all to do with burglaries and things . |
| 16 | People walking up and down the stairs paused to watch them pass . |
| 17 | It was ideal and saved people walking up the bank with heavy shopping , also it was handy for the post office ( which by the way , we have n't one on Albert Hill ) as it stopped at the end of Albert Road and was quite near to the post office on North Road and everyone welcomed that . |
| 18 | The response showed a significant shift , with more people ending up opposing the death penalty , even for the specific offence of terrorist murder . |
| 19 | Nice people ending up clogging this plughole when the PZs were full of undeserving wankers , wallies , wasters and wooftahs . |
| 20 | We try to tackle the problem at all ends — to prevent young people ending up on the streets , to provide a roof over their heads , and to search for long-term solutions . |
| 21 | Jane says : ‘ By helping homeowners give dignified care we prevented people ending up in large psychiatric hospitals and residential homes . ’ |
| 22 | We emerged from the shadow of the station into the bright light of noon , and Daffodil Quentin under her sunburst of curls made an entrance from the dome car end , looking about her as if accustomed to people leaping up to help . |
| 23 | Soon Paige could hear it too — there were people climbing up towards them and they were getting closer by the second . |
| 24 | PEOPLE mopping up their homes were yesterday warned the heavy rains could continue until after the weekend . |
| 25 | Well , we already do that at the moment , trying to assess a myriad of individual benefits with people filling up forms and sending them all over the country . |
| 26 | It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ . |
| 27 | Mother took one tiny look down at all the people looking up — made a long , low moaning noise and fled from the box never to return . |
| 28 | Ironically , the hostel was charging so much in rent that while I did have to stay there , I was better off on the dole with the housing people picking up the bill than in cleaning work and having to pay it myself . |
| 29 | ‘ We used to find that people picking up a 2D spreadsheet from another audit would spend ages trying to print it out and find out what was in there before they could start work . ’ |
| 30 | There was n't any huge promotion or hype about the whole workwear thing as some people are suggesting , because it was all about a few people picking up on it and then promoting it off their own back . |