Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up the [noun] [subord] " in BNC.

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1	Below the nesting area the slopes were rich with vegetation , enriched by bird-droppings , and we were climbing up the slope when we became aware that a polar bear with a big cub was ‘ grazing ’ on the slope .
2	‘ You were holding up the kiosk when I got off the train , were n't you ? ’
3	Well when you were cutting up the meat when you , in the shop and things like that , did you wear any special clothes for that ?
4	So either you say there 's no general will or there is something like a general will , but it is not easily recognizable and for either reason you would want to be much more tolerant of the role minorities , either as a way of getting to the truth , or erm as a way of as it were making up the truth as you 're going along .
5	They were packing up the stalls when we left , ’ said Ianthe .
6	You see the tractor driving it , there 's the load , this was gathering up the hay as it went along and it tipped it over and we had to make the loads you see .
7	The van would arrive every evening to give food to the homeless living on the streets and she was serving up the soup when she saw a man sitting in the doorway .
8	‘ The priest was so preoccupied he did n't see the van and was heading up the ramp when I stopped him . ’
9	She was wearing the white apron she had for cookery classes at school and was tidying up the house because the doctor was coming .
10	All you had to do was to hold up the negotiations until I got desperate and then bully me into authorizing the Japanese deal on the pretext of raising money to pay for my release !
11	But then the other man seemed to regain control of himself , for the next moment he was shinning up the rope as though he had just realised his life depended on it — quite literally !
12	Nick Frazer was locking up the shop when she came along at one .
13	The sun was burning up the mist as we drove on .

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