Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jordan is catching up with the Western world . |
| 2 | Time is catching up with the baldly-going heroes . |
| 3 | He could have destroyed Tottenham except for their world class goalie who is shaping up for a good World Cup eh Halvard ? |
| 4 | Lawrence was fuming after Barnsley beat Boro 1–0 on Monday , and a season that promised so much is shaping up for a disastrous finale . |
| 5 | BELFAST is limbering up for the big international fitness challenge . |
| 6 | Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson has left the world of track and field and is gearing up for a new career in motor racing . |
| 7 | Comedienne Marti Caine , star presenter of BBC1 's Joker in the Pack is gearing up for a hair-raising performance as the evil panto Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . |
| 8 | The sportscar firm is gearing up for a multi-million pound windfall by having replicas of the dream machine on sale in the next few weeks for at least £5,000 apiece . |
| 9 | Buckinghamshire speedway ace Simon Wigg is gearing up for the new season with a new club … he 's signed up for Coventr |
| 10 | THE Royal Mail is gearing up for the General Election . |
| 11 | Mr Thomas reported optimism , however , that the situation is opening up under the new coalition government that came into being a few months ago . |
| 12 | Master John 's going up for the high one . ’ |
| 13 | Group managing director Tom Hempenstall is moving up to the new post of chief executive . |
| 14 | Now Tygavac is linking up with the growing network of Application Support Centres , set up in close proximity to customers to provide sealants and coatings , being established in Europe by Courtaulds Aerospace . |
| 15 | One of the environmental challenges facing the chemical industry today — its role in global warming — is hotting up as the European Commission 's proposal for a carbon tax proceeds . |
| 16 | I think he 's coming I think he 's coming up to the high week group , what is he ? |
| 17 | He 's something he 's , he 's , he 's some , something to do with er with er , with the area and erm , and he 's coming up for the high week group some time in the next , little while , and I said to him you were the group 's |
| 18 | It 's coming up in a great lump . |
| 19 | MacDonald 's hostess Angela Donalis from the city 's Lord Street premises is stocking up for the huge demand which is expected this weekend . |
| 20 | Amounts of toxic gases in our cities have already reached unacceptable levels and this is showing up in the big increases in respiratory illnesses . |
| 21 | Here he is sitting up in the marital bed , his jaw ruggedly clenched on his unlit pipe . |
| 22 | At the same time he or she is backing up in an eccentric centre circle so that the flight pattern resembles that of the snail design . |