Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] up [prep] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Welcome back … in a few minutes we 'll be catching up with one of the fastest men on water … |
| 2 | AS world leaders journey to Rio for the Earth Summit meeting , a gathering at Middlesbrough 's St Mary 's Centre will be facing up to some of the issues confronting world leaders in Brazil . |
| 3 | " Well , I 've been sitting up with one of my best sows . |
| 4 | David Cordery , operations manager for Oxford , told The Bookseller that the robbery happened at about 5.30 p.m. when two staff were cashing up at one of the shop 's three tills . |
| 5 | He was darting up to each of the dogs in turn , ears pricked , eyes blazing with devilment , dabbing a paw at them then streaking away . |
| 6 | Estimates suggest that the peasantry as a whole was giving up over one-third of its total rice output for much of the period , but in some areas it may have been much higher . |
| 7 | Horrified , she was glancing up at one of the windows above the porch and what she saw blanched what little remaining colour she had from her face . |
| 8 | Dark blood was welling up from both of them . |