Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
| 2 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 3 | The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team . |
| 4 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 5 | Fortunately , some experience had been building up on the European continent , in Holland in particular , with DMUs which had very reliable and cost-effective engines and transmissions . |
| 6 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |
| 7 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 8 | These were Wilson and Castle 's response to the ‘ unofficial strike problem ’ which had been building up over the '60s but had acquired particular prominence in 1968 with the publication of the Donovan Commission 's report . |
| 9 | For Alfred Watkins , it was not a sudden flash of inspiration from the beyond but something which had been building up within the deeper levels of his being throughout a lifetime of contact with his native countryside . |
| 10 | The shift , if that 's what it is , mirrors the way shipments have been shaping up during the three months since they started . |
| 11 | The procession had been broken up by a large number of black youths from Lewisham , Deptford and Brixton , waving Ethiopian flags . |
| 12 | Darlington businesses have been wound up by the High Court in London . |
| 13 | Brown , a former member of hit teen band New Edition , fears he has been caught up in a long-running feud between his former band 's road crew and one of America 's top street gangs . |
| 14 | Positivists , of all varieties , have consequently been caught up in an endless quest for a universal , objective but non-legal concept of ‘ crime ’ . |
| 15 | And she could have sworn that , after the first second or two , he had been caught up by the same strong feeling . |
| 16 | Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May . |
| 17 | Both of these are therefore reflected in the file as being attributes of the assembly and so are rolled up into the next hierarchical level . |
| 18 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 19 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 20 | The two are caught up in a desperate race to save their women — knowing that the rescue of one means the destruction of the other . |
| 21 | Women in Hinduism are caught up in a paradoxical view of the female , where the divine can be feminine , yet women are profoundly mistrusted . |
| 22 | We pray for those who are caught up in the human side of the conflict ; for those in camps , held as hostage , deprived of their homes , taken away from their work . |
| 23 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
| 24 | It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community . |
| 25 | ‘ The plain fact is , ’ Niki noted , ‘ that I am caught up in an insane series of setbacks which are oppressive in their consistency and which seem to … prey on my mind . |
| 26 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
| 27 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 28 | Dr Haidar proudly explained that the bride , Mr Postman 's daughter , was a rare creature — a Muslim girl who had been educated up to the tenth class . |
| 29 | However , my corresponding Ego fantasy is of losing my wits to such an extent that I am unable to work ; I am living in a filthy bedsit and the floor is strewn with pieces of paper that I am unable to make sense of , final demands which have not been paid , dirty clothes , plants which have fallen over , unwashed plates and mugs — and I am curled up in a foetal ball , wishing the world would go away ! |
| 30 | But this information is also readily available if the ferret is fitted with a transmitting device within its collar and the signals from this are picked up on a hand-held receiver . |