Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Suppose you suddenly had that feeling — tawdry — while you were walking up the aisle with George Beador . |
| 2 | The main thing was that we were picking up a lot of hawking know-how , even if we did look ridiculous . |
| 3 | Erm when we were picking up the trunk off erm Uncle Alan who 's on on the beginning of the fishing |
| 4 | He 'd whistle and all the horses would run over to us ; and there we were surrounded by these great horses , and we were holding up the babies to them ! |
| 5 | The routine on Melrose Ward had barely been established next morning , when Casualty rang to say they were sending up a woman with jaundice who had collapsed in the street . |
| 6 | ‘ You be careful of those tiles ! ’ he yelled towards the boys in the bathroom who were setting up a step-ladder in the bath . |
| 7 | By the time he died there were no animals left in the yard , nor land to call his own , for it had been sold to the building men , who were throwing up The Courts in order to house the rabble from starving Ireland and those flooding in from all the villages from miles around , all in the hope of being set on and blankets and shawls , everything that would go to cover a human being . |
| 8 | German flares were lighting up the sky behind me as I hurried along the road , keeping close to the houses and in their shadows as much as possible . |
| 9 | I were weighing up the value of the frame |
| 10 | When , when you were working up the shop up the back erm where , where were you getting your , your su supplies from , I mean like , were you , were you buying castings , did you need to buy |
| 11 | Conservationists criticized the Spanish authorities for failing to take sufficient measures to rescue oiled seabirds , and suggested that they were covering up the extent of the damage . |
| 12 | Teal Green was coughing up a lungful of smoke when the Base was plunged into darkness . |
| 13 | When they came to the apartment , Mary-Claude was cooking up a storm in the kitchen , Sarah was squalling in her crib in the front bedroom and in the back it was wall-to-wall Star Wars , with all the electronic gear we had in there . |
| 14 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 15 | A monster 's mum was hanging up the washing in the garden when she suddenly yelled at him : |
| 16 | Calderpark Zoo in Broomhouse was building up a collection of small furry things and a few larger ones , and Easterhouse , Garthamlock and Ruchazie were still bramble-filled lanes between the Edinburgh Road and Stepps . |
| 17 | Folkestone was a pocket borough of the Rothschilds , Southend was falling under the control of the Guinness family , Plymouth was learning to love the Astors , and Samuel Roberts was building up the influence in Sheffield that was to provide a seat for his family until 1966 . |
| 18 | The Committee decided to form a government and by Wednesday 1 March Miliukov , who had emerged as the dominant figure , was drawing up a list of potential cabinet ministers . |
| 19 | Labour said it was stepping up the pressure for an urgent Commons statement from the Chancellor to clarify which areas of spending were ruled in or out from the Treasury review . |
| 20 | There was a sour smell and the growing heat of the sun was sucking up a mist from the waters . |
| 21 | Here he studied under Otto Wallach , who was opening up the chemistry of terpenes natural products important as flavours and fragrances . |
| 22 | Drunks were making a din on the stairs and a sculptor was tearing up a collection of Kisling 's drawings and throwing them down on to the head of the concierge . |
| 23 | He was quite near Philip now and was climbing up the bank towards the spot where Philip had thrown the stone . |
| 24 | Wearing plastic gloves , he was picking up a pipe from a glass bowl to slip it inside a transparent bag . |
| 25 | Mind you when she went home she noticed her accent was getting worse and worse and she was picking up a sort of English reticence or so they enjoyed telling her . |
| 26 | Two well-turned-out girls in green aprons and an even smarter-looking youth waited to serve a customer who was picking up a bunch of grapes . |
| 27 | It would be nice to think their affair had meant something to him , and after Seville he was picking up the pieces of his life and had found happiness with another woman . |
| 28 | Only a few weeks after returning from playing with polar bears in Spitsbergen , I was soaking up the sun in the Seychelles . |
| 29 | Father Crispin had unfortunately just knocked over a wine cup and was cleaning up the mess with a napkin . |
| 30 | Between 1800 and 1850 , however , a hard soapy-looking yellow brick was pouring up the Thames from Suffolk , and most of the new Middlesex churches were built of it . |