Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] up a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PA are building up a definitive database of companies and contacts interested in ESPRIT CIME . |
| 2 | MOTORISTS in the North-East are snapping up a new device in the battle to beat car crime . |
| 3 | I am saving up a full account until our return , for it is impossible for me to give it in writing . |
| 4 | Garden Management Group are to set up a small IT panel to monitor horticultural computing . |
| 5 | THE MEN 'S MOVEMENT NEEDS MORE THRUST , MORE GRASP , IF WE 'RE TO WHIP UP A STIFF FRONT TO MEET THE FEMINIST POSITION AND LAY THE GHOST OF LIMP WET LIBERALISM ! |
| 6 | In fact er just before I retired they were saying , you know , my job 's obsolete and that , and then and says oh we 're opening up a big depot in Japan . |
| 7 | We 're picking up a strange noise on the sonar . |
| 8 | Er I think I think probably they they 're going up a little bit later so |
| 9 | For the future of course , we have now erm negotiated with Eurofighter a rather better arrangement , they 're setting up a joint team , they 're trying to do all the work in one place and they really are now making a lot of progress . |
| 10 | In fact I tuned out altogether for at least a week , while John checked into the hotel and ran around town shuffling papers and permits and palmgrease and all the other shit you deal in when you 're firming up a fresh identity . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm picking up a powerful field of daemonic shielding from this hulk . |
| 12 | but when projects like the Enterprise Workshops in Swindon are threatened with closure , disabled people are putting up a strong fight . |
| 13 | The Conservatives are putting up a big fight . |
| 14 | But the Tories are putting up a hard fight . |
| 15 | Ready or not , the Poles are putting up a stalwart front , rushing ahead with the same heedless bravery with which their mounted cavalry charged the German tanks in World War II . |
| 16 | County planning and transport officers are setting up a public consultation exercise in the village to discuss proposals designed ultimately to rid Greatham of through traffic . |
| 17 | Office , who are setting up a permanent acid rain monitor as well , so then we 'd have to , so then I 've got to get back in touch with that person . |
| 18 | ‘ Long-term things are clearing up a little bit , ’ said Shilton , who is also injured . |