Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is believed that the great bluestones of which Stonehenge is constructed were floated up the Wiltshire Avon . |
| 32 | The Family Division of the High Court has jurisdiction to hear public law cases which have been transferred up the court system or issued at High Court level . |
| 33 | ‘ As a consequence of these deaths , the very highest levels have been cranking up the troops to find who did this . ’ |
| 34 | Now I want you to imagine you have been digging up the garden , ready for planting . |
| 35 | 20 years after Joan Main disappeared , police officers have been digging up the garden of her former husband 's house . |
| 36 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 37 | There 's the nucleus of a very good side here , the young lads have been brought up the Lyall way . ’ |
| 38 | Teachers have been clearing up the mess and the headmaster says some lessons will be held in a nearby school later this week . |
| 39 | As for Dieter Sims , I do n't know much about him except that he 's been building up the East German unit under Husband 's wing . |
| 40 | But I do n't know that actually killing a man because he 's been touching up the boys would altogether hang together as a motive . ’ |