Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm tidying up the last ten years by releasing two compilation albums , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Every day I do n't manage to catch the same bus home as you do , I 'm fed up the whole evening . |
| 3 | . I 'm going up the fair on er Saturday . |
| 4 | ‘ When I was setting up the Fine Chemicals Manufacturing Organization [ FCMO ] in the early '80s , there was no doubt quality was the main way to compete more effectivey and raise performance . |
| 5 | I was an East End boy myself ; I was brought up the hard way . |
| 6 | Suddenly I was climbing up the long ladder of the North pier , the rucksack being roped afterwards . |
| 7 | Her hand was loosening his tie , his was sliding up the tingling curve of her thigh . |
| 8 | On the plus side , the arrival of VAT on domestic supplies should encourage people to think about saving energy in the home , thereby reducing the demand on coal , oil and gas and , therefore , cutting emissions of carbon dioxide ( CO ) which are pushing up the global temperature . |
| 9 | They had to carry a table out with them , which was set up the required ten metres from the shed wall , and the pistols were laid out , and the targets pinned up . |
| 10 | From the vibration on the rope it felt like somebody was jumaring up the 300 tiring feet back into sunshine — some prussik ! |
| 11 | Some of the villages on the edge of the Baronnies look all too spruce , as if the locals had by now given way completely to immigrants wealthier than themselves , who are buying up the old houses and adding new , sometimes crassly intrusive ones . |
| 12 | Ca n't help thinking that they are on the right track and it 's we who are barking up the wrong tree . |
| 13 | A plan to restore the windows at a cost of DFl.1.2 million has been approved by the State Office for Monuments who are putting up the greater part of the necessary funds . |
| 14 | Horse it up well and proper when you 're gathering up the damned folk . |
| 15 | Come on , now , quickly , you 're holding up the whole party . ’ |
| 16 | You do n't , you got ta , you got ta past there and say go past there and say you 're going up the next time |
| 17 | ‘ You 're barking up the wrong tree about the other address , ’ he bluffed . |
| 18 | You 're barking up the wrong tree . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're barking up the wrong tree . |
| 20 | A Morrissey fan said : ‘ By sending the original tickets you 're giving up the only proof you ever had of having bought them , which means they can just ignore you . |
| 21 | Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies , but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized , not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat , but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations . |
| 22 | He looked unbelieving and said , ‘ But surely you remember when we were going down the eighth , you were coming up the ninth , and I waved and your wife waved back , and then you waved . ’ |
| 23 | In protest , she 's leaving up the wooden boards across the window . |
| 24 | His wife is going round the bend , thinking he 's under suspicion , but I 'm sure she 's barking up the wrong tree . |
| 25 | Critics have argued that QALY theory is attractive as long as we are considering one person who is weighing up the likely outcomes with different treatments . |
| 26 | She was coming up the central passage between the rows of tables . |
| 27 | This time we were to follow up the three months with a twelve-week season at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven , Connecticut . |
| 28 | They are screwing up the whole economy , not just housing . |
| 29 | If they think forcing strange food down children 's throats will enhance good race relations , then they are barking up the wrong tree . |
| 30 | You know they 're putting up the electric lines |