Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm breaking up the spaghetti cos I hate it in long lengths ! |
| 2 | I 'm breaking up the band anyway . |
| 3 | You know , I 'm bringing up the child the best I can , she has plenty of love I love her very much ! |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm soaking up the wisdom , ’ Oscar replied . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm goin' up the market , I 'll walk along wiv yer , ’ Florrie said , straightening the wide lapel of her shabby coat . |
| 6 | It 's a smart move which leads him out onto a limb of high-flown verbiage , as in the charmingly titled Thinking Voyager 2 Type Things : ‘ I 'm electric with the snap and crackle of creation/ I 'm mixing up the mud with the spit/ So rise up Brendan Behan and like a drunken Lazarus/ Let's traipse the high bronze of the evening sky/ Like crack crazed kings ’ . |
| 7 | I 'm going up the garage anyway , alright ? |
| 8 | Er no we had some larger other income erm I 'm turning up the detail as we speak . |
| 9 | As a matter of interest , I 'm totting up the sum of his holdings as I go along . |
| 10 | I were weighing up the value of the frame |
| 11 | Every Saturday morning , while I was setting up the barrow , Mr Salmon used to disappear off to the Whitechapel synagogue leaving his wife to run the shop . |
| 12 | Only a few weeks after returning from playing with polar bears in Spitsbergen , I was soaking up the sun in the Seychelles . |
| 13 | Except for a small diversion and nibble some bits of lamb when I was cutting up the meat lunchtime , and to try and serving of it . |
| 14 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
| 15 | I borrowed fifty P off her the oth , I was going up the school , and I only had four fifty for the I needed fifty P but I did n't have enough change like . |
| 16 | But I was beading up the Dale , climbing steadily with the engine pulling against the rising ground , then quite suddenly the fog thinned to a shimmering silvery mist and was gone . |
| 17 | Someone was to hold up the traffic , another to get the guards , but first someone was sent down the side lane towards St Vincent 's Hospital to alert casualty and summon help . |
| 18 | If a tap drips persistently , it may be caused by a damaged tap seating which is chewing up the surface of any washer fitted . |
| 19 | Cllr Long said there were worries for centre users , as no alternative care scheme had yet been agreed by St Helen 's and Knowsley Health Authority , which is winding up the project . |
| 20 | ‘ It is absolutely necessary that if somebody is gumming up the system or can not keep pace with what you are trying to do that they should go , ’ he declares uncompromisingly . |
| 21 | It is absolutely necessary that if somebody is gumming up the system or can not keep pace with what you are trying to do that they should go |
| 22 | He said he would look into a dispute which was holding up the release of Brussels cash to help build some factories on the site of the old Darlington forge . |
| 23 | There was extensive trading in coal , which was brought up the river from Yarmouth , and the rich tracts of land surrounding the town produced a considerable quantity of corn , particularly barley . |
| 24 | They were shown a video about the department and introduced to members of the team who are setting up the service . |
| 25 | HOSPITALS , community centres and local charities are set to reap the rewards from the work of local youths who are taking up the Post Office Community Challenge . |
| 26 | How long you been going up the Rainbow Centre ? |
| 27 | So how long you been going up the Rainbow Centre ? |
| 28 | LIE BACK AND THINK OF … well , certainly not England when you 're soaking up the sun in St Tropez . |
| 29 | So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it . |
| 30 | Thus , when you 're setting up the mouse , for instance , if you 've got MOUSE.COM loaded , Presentations senses it and uses its MOUSE.COM interface . |