Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] 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 | The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team . |
| 3 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 7 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 8 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
| 9 | They are mopping up in a southerly direction . |
| 10 | Tutor Viv Shelley will look at whether manufacturing industries are living up to the green images they promote , the adequacy of monitoring processes and ask what responsibility lies with the public . |
| 11 | our next stop is over in Herefordshire at Ross on Wye … we 're meeting up with a young tennis player who 's won himself a place at the world 's top coaching clinic … the story of Tim Bibby is our Friday Feature |
| 12 | Hold my hand nicely sweetheart , there 's a good girl we 're coming up to a busy road in a minute and it 's dangerous Walk nicely darling , there 's a good girl walk nicely just stand still a minute sweetheart hold my hand Charlotte please hold my hand there 's a good girl . |
| 13 | Mm , what gets me is how Creda they 're gon na , they 're , they 're coming up in the pink and |
| 14 | And he frets too that son Rob and daughter Heather are growing up with a part-time father . |
| 15 | And because pollarding has not been carried out , tall , heavy shoots are growing up from the ancient trunks , which are usually rotten and hollow inside , and these too often either split or simply collapse " . |
| 16 | The artistic reason is that he is old-hat ; Catalans prefer to be known for the airy constructions that are going up for the Olympic Games . |
| 17 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 18 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 19 | Seeing Anthea each day would be a constant reminder , and neither woman could deny that the masks of civility each had been holding up to the other for months were now trampled underfoot . |
| 20 | The moguls are coming up with a new gimmick to get audiences to see movies they have ALREADY seen . |
| 21 | The children who are coming up from the primary schools to secondary schools are going through a change themselves , and it would be such a broad area that we could integrate Science , English , Maths and everything under that sort of umbrella . |
| 22 | I 'm sticking up for the little bless him . |
| 23 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 24 | I 'm going up to the top floor . |
| 25 | Although he was nine years old and would soon be moving up to the big school , Frankie was still frightened of the dark . |
| 26 | By 2000 it will have passed both France and Britain , and will be nosing up on the real geriatrics , Germany and Sweden . |
| 27 | Though not normally noted for their philanthropy , lawyers say they are standing up for the common man and woman by condemning the Scottish Office plans to change civil legal aid and to a lesser extent legal advice and assistance . |
| 28 | While most people still visit in groups , opportunities for independent travel are increasing , and more and better hotels are springing up in the major cities . |
| 29 | They were catching up with an interrupted past , not forestalling a proletarian future . |
| 30 | They were building up to a strong finish with ‘ The Skater 's Waltz ’ and Noreen knew her number would go up next . |