Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a slower than expected march we were gearing up on the famous Green Ledge in bright sunshine — the Ennerdale mountains stretching away like the bony spine of a slumbering dragon . |
| 2 | It may be that they were climbing up into the older parts of the mine above the Grand Level to ascertain whether all the worthwhile ore had been taken out . |
| 3 | and this afternoon the Gloucester coach was weighing up his team 's next opponents … tomorrow at Kingsholm the cherry and whites take on the South African Barbarians … a team bristling with international talent … they were warming up on the playing fields at Wycliffe School in Stonehouse … |
| 4 | The magnificent engine was strong and skilful still , but the suppleness and the sap were drying up in the long sinews , the head was already a death's-head . |
| 5 | Colombo radio reported on Oct. 17 that the LTTE had recently been admitting , at public meetings in its remaining Jaffna stronghold , that the organization was disintegrating , foreign funds were drying up after the recent military reverses , and Tamil youths were refusing to join its guerrillas . |
| 6 | The snowflakes were caking up on the dried grasses and ferns on either bank . |
| 7 | They were working up to the crucial ( as it was then ) question of how and why she had come to identify the first body as Uncle Mossycop 's . |
| 8 | At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school . |
| 9 | Charles could see at first-hand the tension that was building up in the vast depressing wastelands of the inner cities , where young people had no work , no ambition , no feeling of belonging , no pride in their surroundings — nothing , in fact , to get out of bed for in the mornings . |
| 10 | But all that was happening was , the overflow pipe from the Koi quarters was partially blocked : this meant that an abnormally high head of water was building up in the main pool , bringing the level above the sealed junction between liner and blockwork . |
| 11 | Nervous pressure was building up in the United team when Irwin put a 64th-minute corner kick deep into the heart of the Southampton penalty area . |
| 12 | Now a mile or two ahead , we could see a white line where the swell was crashing up on the fringing reef . |
| 13 | They took the corner in a skidding turn , and rocketed into the dark mouth of the alley only a few yards ahead of the second police car , which was racing up from the opposite direction . |
| 14 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 15 | You had to make her feel she was coming up with the original idea . |
| 16 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 17 | He was dancing up to the youngest dog again , sideways this time , head on one side , goading him . |
| 18 | I was travelling up from the English coast on my way to London to arrange the final leg of my journey home . |
| 19 | The girl was staring up at the two of us , wondering what was going on . |
| 20 | She turned around , groping for the door-handle , and saw he was staring up at the small terraced house with interest . |
| 21 | And I thought it really had been a very good life , a fun life , despite Ellen never having gone to bed with me , and I wondered if my father would even notice my death , then the Maggot whooped with glee , hauled back on the stick , and our plane was screaming up into the wide blue lovely bullet-free sky and the Maggot was laughing and slapping my shoulder . |
| 22 | The lights went down further , and I guessed Kruger was working up to the big climax , whatever that was . |