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 .
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