Example sentences of "up [conj] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tough , consistent , and versatile , Golden Chip is effective on all types of ground , held up or blazing a trail . |
| 2 | But he had to restrain himself from leaping up and switching the light off and peering out into the street from behind the curtains . |
| 3 | Some of these may offer opportunities which lean more towards science , technology or maths work — drawing up and costing a cleaning contract for a historic building ( How exactly does one clean that crystal chandelier ? |
| 4 | Melanie Ling was nominated for an award ‘ for the outstanding commitment she has shown since being given the task of setting up and supervising a unit to handle the recently acquired Grand Metropolitan Scheme ’ . |
| 5 | So remember to treat yourselves , perhaps slowly saving up and buying a present for yourself or doing things you enjoy , as rewards for your achievements . |
| 6 | AS YOU WERE reading the last issue of Wood News with your feet up and drinking a cup of hot coffee , John Hill , coupling machine operator at Fireater , was running through the cold , wet weather of Great Yarmouth in training for the London marathon . |
| 7 | Setting up and using the gun is straightforward , with the heat settings clearly marked on the rotating barrel ( temperature is infinitely variable ) . |
| 8 | He remained doubled over for several seconds before slowly straightening up and wiping the sweat from his forehead . |
| 9 | There is no doubt that performance can be improved in many cases , but the fundamental question has to be asked whether such foliar feeding or boosting is merely making up and filling a gap left by normal cultivation that is not as good as it could be . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I was hoping to film the kits growing up and discovering the world around them , but before they were old enough to fend for themselves , a fisherman trapped and killed the mother . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ All right ! ’ he shouted , jumping up and slapping the paper down on the table . |
| 14 | The cost of setting up and policing the system in the inner cities , with their greater proportions of rented accommodation , will be high . |
| 15 | It 's proved a good way of picking up and pigeonholing the plight of the young middle classes living in a country in retreat . |
| 16 | By simply picking up and moving the categories ' names with the mouse I can reverse their positions and totally rebuild the worksheet … |
| 17 | So I thought I 'd spend tomorrow at home clearing up and reading the newspapers and engaging in some spiritually uplifting reading . |
| 18 | Shortly afterwards , the home side broke away for Shearer to be sent sprawling by Stejskal , before picking himself up and converting the spot kick . |
| 19 | This was not quite a case of the bitten getting up and rewarding the biter because Kent exposed Hollwyood , which is not quite the British movie industry . |
| 20 | She had died instantaneously , or pretty nearly so , without first getting up and crawling down the embankment , or for that matter getting up and riding a bicycle . |
| 21 | Thus when the chimpanzee , supplied in the laboratory with two boxes and a stick to reach a suspended bunch of bananas , stops leaping up and trying the reach them with its hands and instead puts one box on top of the other , climbs up and dislodges the bananas with the stick , it is using to the full its basic ability to suppress the automatic response — leaping up — in favour of the intelligent one — climbing up and reaching with the stick . |
| 22 | More than 20 plasterers were resident in Bristol in these years and what seems to have happened was that the two Tyndalls brooded over rolls of Chinese wallpaper and popular books of decorative devices like The Modern Builder 's Assistant ( 1757 ) , picking up and choosing the themes and the motifs that pleased them . |
| 23 | They had for many years been letting cottages — although many more than we — and were just starting to think of selling up and living a quieter life . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 " . |
| 26 | All over the world we are rising up and refusing the exploited identity for which we were conditioned . |
| 27 | Money is well spent in setting up and maintaining a properly serviced grass roots party organisation . |
| 28 | 5.2 The Project Manager shall also be responsible setting up and maintaining a mechanism by which operational changes in the Project thought necessary by any of the Parties are submitted to the Project Committee for approval . |
| 29 | I am satisfied that the plaintiff is in a state where it is reasonably necessary to provide for the costs of setting up and maintaining a trust to handle the plaintiff 's financial interests over the years ahead . |
| 30 | He and Hunt became Britain 's most famous racing partnership as the 42-year-old Peer spent a large chunk of his personal fortune setting up and maintaining the Hesketh team , whose Grand Prix cars sported a red , white and blue livery . |