Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before I landed Brookside I was washing up in a wine bar so the experience obviously came in handy for playing Chrissie . ’ |
| 2 | The scheme certainly helped me right at the beginning when I was starting up as a criminal lawyer . |
| 3 | I was travelling up from the English coast on my way to London to arrange the final leg of my journey home . |
| 4 | The time I went before that , I got erm , like a frostbitten thumb , because I was going up on the chair lift , and er , I dropped one of my gloves , and it was quite a cold day , so by the time I 'd got to the top , and skied all the way back down , and then down the road going back to try and find me gloves , because I had borrowed them from a friend , |
| 5 | I was perking up under the influence of what seemed like half a ton of protein . |
| 6 | I knew that during those brief immortal moments when I was standing up on the board , walking on water , I too felt like a supreme being , until the ocean cast me down again and turned me once more into a creeping thing that creepeth upon the face of the earth . |
| 7 | They 've taken three oil paintings ; two off the walls and one which was leaning up against the window sill , er the candlesticks and the vases off the altar , another very beautiful , very simple oak chair with cane seat and back . |
| 8 | He glanced down at his thick cock , which was standing up like a telegraph pole . |
| 9 | They took the corner in a skidding turn , and rocketed into the dark mouth of the alley only a few yards ahead of the second police car , which was racing up from the opposite direction . |
| 10 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 11 | I thought she was staying up at the villa to rest ? ’ |
| 12 | And she was laying up by the quay by where they 've got those |
| 13 | I turned to share the wonder of it , but she was gazing up at the bloom of flame surging from the chimney 's mouth , and beyond where the evening-star glittered against the deepening blue sky . |
| 14 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 15 | Yvonne seemed silently furious , then announced she was going up to the lifeboat shed to buy some souvenir crap or whatever . |
| 16 | Yeah cos er Jim had just come on duty and she was going up in the lift with somebody and they said please can we have five pounds , your mother 's just had her hair permed |
| 17 | Ruth whirled round and faced Fernando who 'd appeared from nowhere as she was peering up at the house . |
| 18 | Then she was blowing up like a bubble herself and getting fatter and fatter and more and more bulbous till she filled the whole sky and I knew that if she burst the explosion would drown me in mud too , and I could smell the slurry in my nostrils already and it was getting up my nose and I could n't breathe and … |
| 19 | You had to make her feel she was coming up with the original idea . |
| 20 | But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers . |
| 21 | The next minute she was leaping up from the bed , striding across the room and snatching the door open . |
| 22 | ‘ He tackled a player who was getting up after a challenge from someone else — on the touchline . |
| 23 | She was nowhere near the height of Anna Beckett either , who was shooting up like a sapling . |
| 24 | As the younger one was reaching up to the mantlepiece with the flowers , her frock caught fire ; her sister ran to her aid , and soon both girls were engulfed in the flames . |
| 25 | It was plainly a hungry leopard , for it was creeping up on an unsuspecting black-naped hare , an animal that would hardly have provided more than a couple of mouthfuls . |
| 26 | It was standing up at a crazy angle out of a mass of ferns . |
| 27 | I left him to his problems because it was coming up to the time when Emil had said the crew should board the train , and I was due back in the coffee shop . |
| 28 | I followed him out of the City until I was convinced he was packing up for the day . |
| 29 | Richard 's face was bleeding and she knew he was shouting up at the people . |
| 30 | He wriggled back further on the bed till he was leaning up against the wall . |