Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] up [prep] [num] [prep] " 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 | " Well , I 've been sitting up with one of my best sows . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | You 're listening to B B C Radio Nottingham news it 's coming up to five past one . |
5 | Again , some feedback on the flip chart erm let's give you fifteen minutes for that so it 's coming up to five past twenty past |
6 | I mean it 's coming up to twenty past |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |