Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a while now the narrow house has been filling up with medical paraphernalia , with doctoring tackle . |
| 2 | Officially , the Government has been expecting up to one million appeals . |
| 3 | Officially , the Government has been expecting up to one million appeals . |
| 4 | ‘ Everyone , including the British Government , has been waking up to this horrific plight too late . |
| 5 | What he 'd been leading up to all week ? |
| 6 | Worse still , the new skiers — beginners — who should have been making up for those who stop because old age or the arrival of infants stops ski holidays — were simply not attracted to a sport when everyone was complaining about bad conditions . |
| 7 | Troubles had been piling up in recent months as the owners struggled to restore the house 's reputation . |
| 8 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 9 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 10 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
| 11 | Toby Tobias was quickest away and Desert Orchid could find no more , but the race was far from finished , for as Mark Pitman on Toby Tobias made for the winning post Graham McCourt urged Norton 's Coin to a final effort , and as the two jockeys , whips swishing , pushed their courageous mounts up the hill the cheers from the stands which moments before had been tuning up for another Dessie triumph lapsed into a disbelieving murmur : this was not the right script at all . |
| 12 | The Battersea Congress of the Party , to which this complaint was later addressed , gave official backing to a scheme which had been projected for some time , a Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition to unite the various unofficial movements which had been growing up in many important unions . |
| 13 | Doctors ordered the star , who had been playing up to 150 gigs every year for the last 10 years , to rest or maybe wreck his voice for good . |
| 14 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 15 | " Well , I 've been sitting up with one of my best sows . |
| 16 | They have been taking up to 100,000 salmon and sea-trout a year and probably many more if the truth were known . |
| 17 | The Cavaliers and Roundheads have been stocking up for another season , re-enacting the English Civil War . |
| 18 | But for about a year certain pieces of late Roman coinage and art have been cropping up in unexpected places in the international market . |
| 19 | as if they did n't have enough problems already , green turtles from Florida to Australia have been turning up with horrific cancerous tumours . |
| 20 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |