Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura cried , struggling to sit up on the wide leather rear seat of the large car , where she had been so unceremoniously tossed only a moment before . |
| 2 | ‘ Fernando ! ’ she cried at last , struggling to sit up . |
| 3 | Smiths are , unfortunately , helping to bolster up all those cruds still clinging to the starting line and holding the starting gun . |
| 4 | Instead his working life has been devoted , as one might expect from that neck of the woods , to the shoe trade , helping build up the family firm into a multinational concern . |
| 5 | Instead his working life has been devoted , as one might expect from that neck of the woods , to the shoe trade , helping build up the family firm into a multinational concern . |
| 6 | That 's why the best magazine is one which give you all the practical information and advice you need , so you can get on with enjoying bringing up your children your way . |
| 7 | WE used to lead the way , set the trend ; things have been allowed to drift so much that now we 're struggling to catch up ’ . |
| 8 | We walked out and staggered back to our beds , pushing out the dummies we had left there as decoys , using rolled up overcoats and our pyjamas . |
| 9 | DEC is struggling to come up with a clear , forthright statement on its Unix policy for a worldwide briefing it 's planning on holding February 10 . |
| 10 | I certainly both dreaded and disliked the prospect of the law and order debate , for the atmosphere was so strangely hostile and so different from that accorded to all one 's colleagues … pressure and even bullying by so-called ‘ hangers and floggers ’ served only to force Conservative MPs who were against hanging to stand up for what they believed to be right . |
| 11 | THE USPCA is vowing to round up illegally-owned pit bull terriers being trained in Ulster for fights in Britain and the Republic . |
| 12 | ‘ I am sorry to interrupt your cosy chat , Martin , but Daddy 's dying to go up to the bar for a drink and we 've promised to stop by Carolyn Roach 's house later on . ’ |
| 13 | Four main conclusions were drawn : first , war was a senseless act , which could never be a rational tool of state policy ; secondly , the 1914–18 war had been the result of leaders becoming caught up in a set of processes that no one could control ; thirdly , the causes of the war lay in misunderstandings between leaders and in the lack of democratic accountability within the states involved ; and fourthly , the underlying tensions which had provided the rationale for the conflict could be removed by the spread of statehood and democracy . |
| 14 | The committee was becoming caught up in issues that did not fall within its remit . |
| 15 | She coughed loudly and said loudly , ‘ And I 'm gettin' frozen up in all these draughts . ’ |
| 16 | An arm came loose and fell off , revealing scrunched up newsprint where there should have been ligament , bone and muscle . |
| 17 | The police , finally becoming fed up with being outwitted by the sanctuary laws , continued the chase inside , arresting the nobleman at the High Altar . |
| 18 | In fact , together with several colleagues , I was endeavouring to set up an informal meeting with ministers to try and discuss this matter er when the haemophiliac 's representative decided to go to law for their own good reasons , because that made it more difficult for any negotiations to take place . |
| 19 | He left me to wander about on my own for twenty minutes before returning to lock up . |
| 20 | In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives . |
| 21 | The business of claiming from a company is becoming wrapped up in more and more paperwork and bureaucracy . |
| 22 | Government repayment schedules encourage specialisation , driving costs up still more . |
| 23 | ‘ What was that ? ’ asked Riley , endeavouring to keep up as the big man strode up the steps to the station concourse . |
| 24 | They are efficient , but I think I prefer internal fastenings especially as Velcro is susceptible to becoming snowed up . |
| 25 | Loggers argued passionately for allowing cutting to continue on economic grounds , but were opposed by fishing industry representatives , who claimed that the populations of salmon on which their work depended were plummeting as a result of their breeding streams becoming silted up due to logging . |
| 26 | Residents have called on Scarborough council to take action to save the resort 's Mere off Seamer Road which is becoming silted up . |
| 27 | By now Jem had almost succeeded in prising Poll free from Sally-Anne , with the result that Poll 's wailing went up an octave . |
| 28 | They are itching to hold up the red card to an establishment that does n't believe that ex-pros have the right pedigree to control top matches . |
| 29 | The subjects can look a little ridiculous to us too , the old-fashioned costumes , the strange practice of sunbathing standing up ! |
| 30 | She was becoming worked up again and there was an element of aggression in her manner which might soon dissolve into tears . |