Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] up a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PA are building up a definitive database of companies and contacts interested in ESPRIT CIME . |
| 2 | MOTORISTS in the North-East are snapping up a new device in the battle to beat car crime . |
| 3 | I am saving up a full account until our return , for it is impossible for me to give it in writing . |
| 4 | In fact er just before I retired they were saying , you know , my job 's obsolete and that , and then and says oh we 're opening up a big depot in Japan . |
| 5 | We 're picking up a strange noise on the sonar . |
| 6 | Er I think I think probably they they 're going up a little bit later so |
| 7 | For the future of course , we have now erm negotiated with Eurofighter a rather better arrangement , they 're setting up a joint team , they 're trying to do all the work in one place and they really are now making a lot of progress . |
| 8 | In fact I tuned out altogether for at least a week , while John checked into the hotel and ran around town shuffling papers and permits and palmgrease and all the other shit you deal in when you 're firming up a fresh identity . |
| 9 | But you will be building up a useful nest egg and wo n't have to pay either capital gains or income tax on the money you get back . |
| 10 | In the meantime , the band themselves will be pressing up a limited edition single in December for their two Irish dates in Dublin and Belfast . |
| 11 | ( 6 ) Hilton Mining ( Harvard OTC ) " Between ourselves , somebody may be picking up a huge stake in this company . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm picking up a powerful field of daemonic shielding from this hulk . |
| 13 | ‘ I want to do well for the club but I seem to be heading up a blind alley and maybe a move is the only solution . |
| 14 | The hire car would be running up a heavy bill , but apart from the advance that he 'd had to hand over Forester had no intention of paying it . |
| 15 | One minute she 'd be putting up a good case for one course of action , then produce an equally convincing rebuttal . |
| 16 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
| 17 | Do not miss the Felice Varini exhibition at the Jennifer Flay gallery , now in its last few days ( closing 7 June ) ; Varini is followed by the American Karen Kilimnik , who will be setting up a large installation . |
| 18 | In a cautiously worded announcement on May 29 Afewerki said that the EPLF would be setting up a provisional administration for Eritrea , but that this did not constitute a unilateral declaration of independence . |
| 19 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 20 | Till now , Ken Livingstone had been putting up a good show , joking about John Smith serving as his deputy and arguing for defence cuts to pay for benefits rather than tax increases . |
| 21 | The Daughters of the American Revolution had been racking up a heavy rep in the past few months . |
| 22 | but when projects like the Enterprise Workshops in Swindon are threatened with closure , disabled people are putting up a strong fight . |
| 23 | The Conservatives are putting up a big fight . |
| 24 | But the Tories are putting up a hard fight . |
| 25 | Ready or not , the Poles are putting up a stalwart front , rushing ahead with the same heedless bravery with which their mounted cavalry charged the German tanks in World War II . |
| 26 | How must it be to tend your bit of land and sow crops and vegetables and perhaps rear animals , knowing you were building up a comfortable home and an inheritance for your children and then see your children taken and forced into slavery by the Robemaker ? |
| 27 | The followers were calling up a half-glimpsed nightmare . |
| 28 | Thus far they had found nothing , and above the bed of the river their searchings were stirring up a cloudy precipitate of mud as the white waters gushed across the weir . |
| 29 | Above his head , two sailors were putting up a small sail . |
| 30 | Yes , go through the first five minutes , there were all different tasks , erm , at first , the girls were making up a basic jingle that would be about thirty seconds , and everyone else was looking through to see what words they should use . |