Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reason bein' , we did a complete sweep of the whole area outside the perimeter of the grounds , jes ' in case our man wuz lyin' up in the vicinity . |
| 2 | Perhaps they were gazing up here quite absently and speculatively , as I did on Monday . |
| 3 | Events were shaping up faster and worse than I could have expected . |
| 4 | Already , statistics were catching up on them . |
| 5 | We told him that you had been out all night and that you were catching up on some sleep . |
| 6 | So they , the pursuers , were catching up somewhat . |
| 7 | The year 1973 came close to repeating the triumphs of 1972 but , as usual in FI , other cars were catching up with the Lotus , though not in qualifying , for 1973 was the year in which Ronnie Peterson notched an astonishing nine pole positions and a place on the front row in twelve of the season 's fifteen races , as against one and five for Emerson , Peterson finishing a mere three points behind Fittipaldi . |
| 8 | They were catching up with an interrupted past , not forestalling a proletarian future . |
| 9 | The social services managers were two or three years behind those in the NHS in developing contracts , although they were catching up fast . |
| 10 | The strains of the last fortnight were catching up with him , and he looked every one of his sixty-four years . |
| 11 | In its critique of the project , known as Nina , the Science Policy Research Unit ( SPRU ) of the University of Sussex , says : I Only six papers a year were produced from research using the machine , whereas similar devices abroad were producing up to twice as many |
| 12 | They were building up to a strong finish with ‘ The Skater 's Waltz ’ and Noreen knew her number would go up next . |
| 13 | The great kings , Philip of France and Edward of England , were building up nation states . |
| 14 | ‘ We were building up our home , ’ his mother had told him . |
| 15 | In Argyll the Dalriadic Scots were building up their strength . |
| 16 | How must it be to tend your bit of land and sow crops and vegetables and perhaps rear animals , knowing you were building up a comfortable home and an inheritance for your children and then see your children taken and forced into slavery by the Robemaker ? |
| 17 | Long before the century closed , pressures were building up for constitutional change and for more profound changes in the social and economic system itself . |
| 18 | A helpful northerly breeze was filling the sails , so that they were building up gentle speed across the waters of the bay . |
| 19 | Several of my old shipmates from earlier years were now established on the cutters and were building up reputations as excellent navigators , boat handlers or engineers , as well as hitting the headlines occasionally with notable seizures or rescues at sea . |
| 20 | Helicopter traffic to and from the rigs and foreign flights to Norway and Holland were building up rapidly as a result of the oil boom , and with the small numbers of customs staff on shore our crew was often asked to help out while we were in port . |
| 21 | The paper was rocky , as circulation , distribution , legal fees , arguments were building up . |
| 22 | Tears were building up behind her eyes , threatening to disgrace her by spilling down her cheeks . |
| 23 | It was as if he were building up his own mental data bank of the organisation 's inter-personal relationship patterns , which was a form of words I was sure he would understand . |
| 24 | HP 's software effort for the new servers included endorsement from a veritable who's-who of mainframe software houses , all eager to stand up on the platform and say that their customers were queueing up to leave the IBM mainframe world behind . |
| 25 | We will be asked why , given the evidence of the time , when EFTA and the east European countries were queueing up to join the tighter Community that was being proposed , we allowed ourselves to be left outside . |
| 26 | Others were queueing up for cracks at goal as well , notably Jon Newsome on at least two occasions , as well as Speed and Bats . |
| 27 | Blackburn , loads of Iti clubs were queueing up for him . |
| 28 | Within hours of their arrival , says a WIA team member , holidaymakers were queueing up to tell them horrific tales about thefts , attacks and prostitution on the streets . |
| 29 | Even whilst the plague was raging , the King and parliament , who had fled to Oxford to escape , were drawing up new legislation to persecute the Nonconformists . |
| 30 | ‘ The basic concept was that there should be a period of restraint to redress the balance of what has been a tremendous amount of development over the years , ’ he said , referring to the support the parish council had given to county and district while they were drawing up their local plans . |