Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happened was I happened to be in the corridors there and the gentleman came in , that 's on the Friday afternoon , gentleman came in and asked to see the Headmaster , so I took him along to see who was the Headmaster then , and erm shortly after that I was called up to see and erm asked me if I 'd like to apply for this job because had seen me erm bringing me up to , bringing him up to see and he said erm , well what about that young fella who brought me up there and would he like to apply . |
| 2 | Just my personal assistant bringing me up to date on some business matters , ’ he added dismissively as he walked over to the other side of the bed , picking up his slim gold watch from a small table . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 4 | This woman who , who keeps phoning me up about all this oil pollution on her land . |
| 5 | ‘ A lot of the simpler souls ’ , said Quigley , ‘ probably think a great big snake is going to slither out at them and start gobbling them up in a few years . ’ |
| 6 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 7 | To generate a biological molecule like haemoglobin , the red pigment in blood , by simple sieving would be equivalent to taking all the amino-acid building blocks of haemoglobin , jumbling them up at random , and hoping that the haemoglobin molecule would reconstitute itself by sheer luck . |
| 8 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 9 | Mark Tansey , he of the sly sense of humour , has often explored landscapes , sometimes building them up from what appear to be lines of typography . |
| 10 | Hence philosophical analysis can and must proceed by erm philosophical thinking must proceed by analysis , by breaking down complex wholes into their simple parts and building them up by construction out of these simple parts , a conviction to which Russell remained true for the rest of his life . |
| 11 | Our prime purpose is to glorify God in reaching men and women for Christ , building them up in Christ , and sending them out for Christ . |
| 12 | North frequently talked to these contributors , whipping them up with his slide show , and they , too , developed a code-name for him . |
| 13 | Caird specialises in buying small waste management and landfill companies , integrating them and bringing them up to existing and proposed European standards on waste disposal . |
| 14 | Lightly shrug both shoulders , bringing them up to your ears , then dropping them down . |
| 15 | But , George is off Monday and Tuesday but so if you were getting them , sitting here and bringing them up on Thursday John can come here and get his tea here and then take them home . |
| 16 | Er I thought you did well in erm giving yourself credibility by talking about the shares , oh yes you can have two hundred and fifty pounds per month in the shares and they 've done well and I said oh yes they have done well , and I felt good that you were praising me up for being such a clever chap , and so I thought that was all , all jolly good stuff . |
| 17 | Charles frowned and cleared his throat , tentatively he took the boots from Hari and kicking off his leather slippers , bent forward and gingerly drew the boots on to his feet , lacing them up with trembling fingers . |
| 18 | In addition most clubs organise a full programme of races over the season which , once you 've mastered the basics of sailing , can improve your skills very quickly by matching them up with other boats in the fleet . |
| 19 | I just want to say a big THANK YOU to the organisers and correspondents for keeping me up to date with the progress of THE WHITES this season . |
| 20 | Nonesuch reverts to its old function , keeping the University as a whole together , telling graduates what is going on in their old alma mater , and keeping them up to date with what their contemporaries are doing . |
| 21 | General practitioners have also found intensive courses in diabetes helpful in keeping them up to date and improving their clinical skills . |
| 22 | Yes , I believe that 's about getting pe , getting the lists of order , keeping them up to date erm . |
| 23 | Incidentally , the last I heard , that weekly coach to the Upper Witham was still running — under the name of Heeley Angling Club and , even more surprising , I understand that ’ Jock ’ was still driving them up to a few years ago . |
| 24 | Now we ask er the club to supply er in between us signing them up for to do the cards to them to the consultant erm er getting there getting there to do the assignment could be five or six months . |
| 25 | Certainly , the best hope for more political freedom in some countries lies in opening them up through trade ; that is why America would be unwise to refuse China favourable trading terms ( see page 54 ) . |
| 26 | The revised constitutional package focused on ( i ) fiscal adjustment measures including , critically , a new simplified tax system to broaden the tax base in order to raise an extra US$10,000 million per annum ; ( ii ) the lifting of banking secrecy in cases of proven tax evasion ; ( iii ) new mechanisms for dealing with state debts to the central government ; ( iii ) the ending of government monopolies in such areas as oil and telecommunications , opening them up to private domestic and ( more controversially ) foreign capital investment . |
| 27 | Tonight we visit a village which is so proud of it 's gardens , it 's opening them up for the public to enjoy . |
| 28 | ‘ We are gearing ourselves up for promotion on and off the field . |
| 29 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |
| 30 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |