Example sentences of "[prep] be [v-ing] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it claims to be receiving up to ten a week , with Glasgow and Yorkshire emerging as illegal software hot spots . |
| 2 | Suddenly the lack of sleep and tension seemed to be catching up in one great wave of dizziness . |
| 3 | Things seemed to be looking up at last , ’ she says . |
| 4 | ‘ No , ’ Ashley said , beginning to feel flustered by what seemed to be shaping up into another interrogation . |
| 5 | His interest in Roman remains was minimal , and in any case his ears ( incipient otosclerosis , his personal physician had diagnosed ) seemed to be filling up with thicker and thicker wads of cotton-wool each day . |
| 6 | Often , of course , the story is so important that they have to cover it , but it goes against the grain to be sweeping up behind another paper 's scoops . |
| 7 | Stevenson , a quick-moving , stocky northerner with a distinguished record in every possible branch of the Met , was rumoured to be going up to Assistant Commissioner just as soon as the present incumbent retired . |
| 8 | When he opened the door and saw who 'd come for him he did n't expect to be waking up at all . |