Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 2 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 3 | The judge has been summing up the case against Harper and the jury will consider the case against him tomorrow . |
| 4 | The latest entry , Quarterdeck with the long-awaited Desqview/X , however , has been stirring up the market with some high profile selling , backed by a positive reception from the industry . |
| 5 | Say they just going for a walk , yeah , and you come across this , say this young kid has been climbing up the trees and hurt his leg , you 're the only person around , so you , you 've got to get help yeah , cos he 's losing a lot of blood , but you 've got to stop his blood same time as you 've got to get help , yeah , so what 's the priority , you just stay |
| 6 | Daylight would have been shining up the gallery from that east window . ’ |
| 7 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 8 | While we talked Miss Sowerby had been cleaning up the patient with the head wound and , as the man prepared to leave , Reid cried to him , ‘ Head feel'um better ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , and they 've been reading up the stuff for years . |
| 10 | Now they 've been digging up the garden to make a channel for all electricity to go underground you see . |
| 11 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 12 | ‘ As a consequence of these deaths , the very highest levels have been cranking up the troops to find who did this . ’ |
| 13 | Now I want you to imagine you have been digging up the garden , ready for planting . |
| 14 | 20 years after Joan Main disappeared , police officers have been digging up the garden of her former husband 's house . |
| 15 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 16 | Teachers have been clearing up the mess and the headmaster says some lessons will be held in a nearby school later this week . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |