Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that there may indeed be real risks attached to opening up and talking from the heart is not in dispute , just as the limitations on teachers ' freedom are very real . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For a round cake , roll the cake like a wheel along the strip , picking up and pressing on the marzipan as you go . |
| 4 | Some people were waking up and seeing through the disguise humanity had constructed around its deities . |
| 5 | Normally ( see Fig. 3.2 ) cortisol is secreted mainly around the time of waking and this seems to be part of dealing with the ‘ stress ’ of waking up and preparing for the new day . |
| 6 | And I 've thought about buying a , a me erm a metal detector and going up and going over the where the kirkyard was because when there were was here that was in about sixteen oh it might have been about sixteen sixty or sixteen eighty . |
| 7 | The leeches look as if they have the faces of the bodies they have burst from , and they are capable of rearing up and attacking with a cluster of teeth around a central sucker . |
| 8 | Perhaps a retired person , with no family can honestly say ‘ Right , I 'm selling up and moving to the Isle of Skye . ’ |
| 9 | There are so many tribes of Orcs that it is impossible to count them , especially as they are constantly breaking up and reforming under the leadership of new ambitious Orc Warlords . |
| 10 | Forecasters thought the iceberg — once measuring 65 miles by 50 miles , and now measuring 35 miles by 20 — would continue drifting eastwards towards the island of South Georgia and onwards towards South Africa , breaking up and melting on the way . |
| 11 | That means breaking up and selling off the state-owned monopolies . |
| 12 | This is less Ben Elton-speak than naked ambition to be an admired state-of-the-art comedian who can acknowledge the wrongs of the world , shift with the politics of the time , try out new techniques ( in this case performing in theatres with a captive audience rather than in a back room full of hecklers getting up and wandering to the bar every 20 minutes ) and be funny . |
| 13 | It 's impossible ! she exclaimed to herself , getting up and leaning on the rough stone windowsill . |
| 14 | Now he was getting up and coming round the table towards her . |
| 15 | Usually worn by those smug bastards who fidget relentlessly on planes and insist on getting up and walking round the whole time , demonstratively taking photos out of windows and asking for guided tours of the cockpit . |
| 16 | This is an unpleasant discovery which may shock you into giving up and returning to the relative comfort of Stage 1 . |
| 17 | Music is n't for keeping and treasuring , it 's for cutting up and feeding into a computer . |
| 18 | ‘ Caspar , ’ said Lee , jumping up and looking through the trees . |
| 19 | ‘ Where to ? ’ demanded Jenny , jumping up and rushing to the window . |
| 20 | New initiatives aimed at attracting nurses back to work are springing up and developing throughout the UK . |
| 21 | ‘ Well ? ’ she pressed him , sitting up and looking at the broad back facing her . |
| 22 | Why were n't they off photographing the three hundred bodies that the Americans were digging up and dumping into a mass grave ? |
| 23 | Young men began ringing up or arriving on the doorstep and announcing themselves as ‘ Wedgie ’ or ‘ Snubs ’ or ‘ Schizo ’ and saying that Conor was the best there was , and was there anything they could do ? |
| 24 | The plaintiffs , A and others , who were customers of the defendants , obtained an injunction before Morland J. on 13 August 1990 restraining the defendants from delivering up or disclosing to the United States court or to third parties otherwise than in connection with and for the purposes of the business and trading of the plaintiffs , any documents relating to the plaintiffs ' accounts with the defendants , and ordering the latter to return to its London branch certain documents which had been removed from the jurisdiction . |
| 25 | The [ defendants ] whether by [ themselves , their ] servants or agents or otherwise howsoever be restrained until trial or further order from : ( a ) delivering up or disclosing to the grand jury in the County of New York empanelled in the matter of the People of the State of New York v. John Doe ( B Bank ) or , without the prior consent of the plaintiffs , delivering up or disclosing to any third party otherwise than in connection with and for the purposes of the business and trading of the plaintiffs or any of them , all documents and information contained therein held by [ these defendants ] at [ their ] branches in London or elsewhere within this jurisdiction concerning or relating to the plaintiffs ' accounts with the [ defendants ] or any of them or otherwise relating to the business of the plaintiffs or any of them ; ( b ) without the prior written consent of the plaintiffs ' solicitors herein , removing from the jurisdiction of this court any of the documents referred to in subclause ( a ) hereof or any copies thereof . |
| 26 | And indeed B P G twelve , under the heading of environmental considerations says that a a authorities should have regard to environmental considerations , but recommend an environmental appraisal identifying , quantifying , weighing up and reporting on the environmental and other cost benefits of the measures which are proposed . |