Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [v-ing] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Royal Mail is gearing up for the General Election . |
| 2 | The undeniable fact is that chlorine is building up in the atmosphere much faster than it can be coped with . |
| 3 | I 'm taking the Cortina , the clutch is playing up on the Renault . |
| 4 | In her paradoxical way , the anorexic is facing up to the truth implicit in her own convictions . |
| 5 | But an enormous backlog of untaxed cases of wine is building up in the producers ' warehouses . |
| 6 | Nearer , a blur of smoke and mist is simmering up from the snow , among all the spikiness of spire and steeple , chimney-stack and telegraph pole , the pinnacles of chapels and ventilators of schools . |
| 7 | He told Elizabeth of the meal in the dining room , with the butler and maids serving on and made her giggle at his father 's summing up of the Dowager Lady Lassiter . |
| 8 | The paper is going up to the Library Advisory Committee with a request for suggestions for cuts , and I enclose a copy of the last page with its summary for your information . |
| 9 | We only have an A4 scanner but if somebody would like to send me the relevant pages from the Torygraph I will have a go , the address is coming up at the end of the progrmme . |
| 10 | Your dressing-gown 's hanging up behind the door ! |
| 11 | Conoca said : ‘ A leak has developed inside one well of the unmanned platform and gas is leaking up to the surface . |
| 12 | Although advertising is picking up after the recession , most in the industry only expect fairly modest growth . |
| 13 | This concrete path is cracking up under the strain of thousands of paws padding over it . |
| 14 | Mr Thomas reported optimism , however , that the situation is opening up under the new coalition government that came into being a few months ago . |
| 15 | Oh oh my hair 's standing up at the back of my neck . |
| 16 | Certainly the Antrim Technology Park is filling up with the sort of high technology software companies that any self-respecting Californian science park would like to have . |
| 17 | Automatically it 's staying , hopefully , if your salary 's going up by the rate of inflation , this will then be matching your salary , year in , year out . |
| 18 | Time is catching up with the baldly-going heroes . |
| 19 | My brother is coming up at the end of the week to take them back with him , and he 'll tell them something then . ’ |
| 20 | The wife 's brother is coming up for the festivities . ’ |
| 21 | If you know the table 's going up in the air you know it 's time |
| 22 | THE drive to save energy is picking up in the United States — and helping to boost demand for a Courtaulds product . |
| 23 | The third one is the , this book is pushing down on the table and the table is pushing up on the book . |
| 24 | From the blurred picture you can see the vital point when the clubhead is catching up with the hands . |