Example sentences of "[pron] [be] putting up " in BNC.

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1 It is there that I am putting up . ’
2 Do watch these examples I 'm putting up , by the way cos I muck these up
3 ‘ Couple of my boys tell me you 're trying to earn a piece of that five grand I 'm putting up .
4 That evening , when I was putting up my tent and preparing my meal , Mick was singing and seemed exceptionally cheerful .
5 Barnes added : ‘ Being on the same pitch as that other bloke Barnes would be a dream because only two years ago I was putting up the nets on Sunday mornings for my hospital team . ’
6 Er they supported me and canvassed for me when I was putting up , but I ca n't see them going , whereas I can remember the erm the when I was a child going to the , we used to have a fete and it was a politically , I ca n't remember exactly what it would be called , but I know mother and the Guild were always there making the tea and got a stall and they were always in the forefront and they 'd always got their rosettes on .
7 Erm so I c I could n't buy any of what you were telling me and it 's all like a , it was all a smokescreen I was putting up , the accountant , basically I , I was not erm buying anything er and the compressed funding was just blowing my mind because I could n't understa er it was basically giving me an easy option to say I do n't need to do anything cos I can compress my funding at forty five wo n't I , when my business has taken off .
8 Advanced RISC has also won a new shareholder , Nippon Investment & Finance Co of Tokyo , which is putting up £650,000 for an undisclosed stake in the company alongside Acorn Computer Group Plc , Apple and VLSI Technology Inc .
9 Then she went on and dedicated her song to all those men here tonight who are still hunting , all of those who are unhappy in love , all of those who are putting up with second best , all those who are not getting what they want .
10 A plan to restore the windows at a cost of DFl.1.2 million has been approved by the State Office for Monuments who are putting up the greater part of the necessary funds .
11 You 're putting up candles in the wind now .
12 ‘ But I ca n't see why you 're putting up with such nonsense .
13 But er but when Marguerite says she 's thinking of having a couple for her living room that ca n't be pictures of somebody else 's room she 's putting up , he must be taking snaps .
14 So anyone who 's putting up a lot of their own money is untrustworthy and there should be limitation on how much people can stand , erm Mill actually goes into some figures at this point and rather quaintly says erm either fifty pounds or a hundred pounds ought to be adequate and I do n't know what that translates to now .
15 My policy is to vote in local elections for the person who , in my opinion , is going to serve the locality best , regardless of political views , but how can one vote without some knowledge of who is putting up for election ?
16 proposed that we should in effect give the money to erm a non county body involved in this , to allocate , to work out both the basis of the allocation and the allocation funds in this order , we think that 's inappropriate , If we 're putting up money then we should also have the responsibility for allocating them among a until the done and the done , so I 'm at all , or whether our council or something to be set up in the future should have equal control of that , that money .
17 We 're putting up tents .
18 I thought we were doing we 're putting up tent this week and putting up a six tent next week and then
19 One Air Force Day we were putting up stands for a show and he leapt up and did about half a dozen speeches from Henry IV and Henry V .
20 Immigration officers are so pleased with it that they are putting up more , along the Arizona-Mexico border .
21 What a lot of people are doing is they 're not putting up rails but they 're putting up a erm a border halfway up are n't they , or just not quite halfway up the wall .
22 You know they 're putting up the electric lines
23 She told him about the new high-tensile fencing they were putting up , and the ten acres of daffodil bulbs they were planting as an experiment rather than consigning the field to set-aside .
24 He believes that things are as they seem to Dr Serafin ; that he is putting up proposals which are as sound as his judgement and experience can make them , that he is withdrawing them in deference to Serafin 's objections , and that he will be forced to formulate alternative proposals which can not be known to him yet because they will take their rise from views Serafin has still not expressed .
25 He says it is a nuisance but he 's putting up with it .
26 Last year , you know , totally rat-arsed. now , he 's putting up a list of all the poems he wants us to look at for next week .
27 Phil toppled from a stepladder as he was putting up decorations for the big day — and a spike went right through him .
28 During the sittings , he was always in good spirits ; and as long as you did not try to glimpse what he was putting up on the canvas , he would dilate on any subject that took his fancy .
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