Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sammy was yapping and jumping up and down , waiting for him at the bottom . |
| 2 | It is the quality of each individual experience which is vital to the Teacher Placement Service and how organisers do everything to ensure that the preparation , matching and follow up support is of the highest standard . |
| 3 | I was not allowed to return to Bolivia , so I spent my time and energy denouncing what was happening and setting up solidarity networks . |
| 4 | ‘ See you , ’ I say and escape to City Road , where an off-licencee is opening and looks up surprised to see an office yuppie ( his definition ) among the line of winoes so early in the morning-o ! |
| 5 | Talking softly the whole time , he slowly ran his hands over her , caressing , gentling and scratching up and down her mane where once her mother would have lovingly nibbled her , then progressing to her back and flanks . |
| 6 | The story goes that , one day , the goddess was dusting and picked up a ball of lint dropped by a blue humming-bird , placing it inside her apron . |
| 7 | they were laughing and giggling up the corner and er , I mean I did go just to let them know that although I did say I would n't come to every meeting I was quite prepared to still do |
| 8 | It seemed as good a time as any to go , so I went down to the squat in the King 's Road where I was living and picked up my passport . |
| 9 | Some climbers are very enthusiastic about the new proposal , recognising that the current system needs revising and bringing up to date . |
| 10 | Tom Horrocks dropped his head , hands at his knees , groaning and smiling up at them . |
| 11 | It is establishing and keeping up mutual understanding between an organisation and the people it wants to reach . |
| 12 | Half time was fantastic too — community pushing and shoving up and down ( mostly down ) the back of the kop for the heck of it was in order . |
| 13 | Lee gave him a shove , there was some pushing and tripping up , Kevin fell over into Dean 's lap and a woman at the other end of the car shouted that if they did n't behave themselves she 'd find someone at Goldhawk Road who would make them . |
| 14 | She had gone through all the rigmarole of dressing and making up almost on automatic pilot , deriving none of the normal pleasure from the procedure . |
| 15 | I realise that you can never really win against the water ; it will always triumph in the end , seeping and soaking and building up and undermining and overflowing . |
| 16 | Lightly oil 16×10cm/4in filo squares , spoon on filling and draw up edges into purses . |
| 17 | When Razor went down the first time I was shouting and jumping up and down , ’ she said . |
| 18 | She stopped shouting and gave up hammering on the door . |
| 19 | The harvesters followed the machine , picking and tying up bundles of corn . |
| 20 | Abrupt relaxations of the upper oesophageal sphincter independent of swallowing and lasting up to three seconds occurred during 54% of common cavity episodes . |
| 21 | ACTOR Ryan O'Neal stumped up £25,000 bail after son Griffin was accused of terrorising and beating up his 24-year-old ex-lover . |
| 22 | Sandys soon found that the easiest part of his Nuclear Reformation was writing and pinning up his ‘ Articles of Religion ’ in Westminster . |
| 23 | To do this they arranged a movable slit to open for a wide ΔΕ when the photodiode array is operating and close up for a narrow ΔΕ for the spectral detector . |
| 24 | Right after that you 'll learn that once the bird is stabilised in the dive it 's all too easy to be a bit late recovering and end up pulling g . |
| 25 | it 's reacting and taking up oxygen . |
| 26 | Lourdes , one of the Marian shrines most loved by the Christian people , is both a place and a symbol of hope and grace , characterised by accepting and offering up redemptive suffering . |
| 27 | ‘ From now on , it 's healthy eating , ’ she announces to her underwhelmed offspring and insists that they and their father go jogging and serves up watercress soup for tea . |
| 28 | One of them was his habitual slowness , especially in handling and totting up cash ; for , before he took up duties in the foreign exchange department of Lloyds in the semi-basement room at the branch at 20 King William Street ( no wonder that the eyes and back , at the end of the day , turned ‘ upward ’ from the desk ) , he worked for a period behind the counter . |
| 29 | In general there was concern to protect the security of their own providers in the first year , to try to sort out the information base for contracting and setting up appropriate systems . |
| 30 | Steve had finished eating and looked up . |