Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'm just seeing if the water 's going up the drains . |
| 32 | And if a strange person is walking up the driveway with intention of breaking in at least somebody may notice it . |
| 33 | Northgate South ward councillor Dot Long , who took the case up with Labour colleague Eleanor Young , said : ‘ The illegal parking is breaking up the paving stones and it 's generally a nuisance for nearby residents . |
| 34 | But to Paula 's triumphant delight the suit was snapped up the moment it went back onto its hanger — a solicitor 's wife who had stopped for a coffee had fallen in love with it , even if the skirt did have to be taken up four full inches to make it fit her less-than-willow tall frame . |
| 35 | As Roger Forester was closing up the cottage behind him DI Mike Schaffer was swinging his legs off a creaking camp-bed in the office of the Langstone schoolhouse and sitting groggily upright . |
| 36 | In a number of cases , grain was carried up the canal to the docks , was transhipped , and promptly retraced its steps along the canal to Saul Junction where it passed onto the Stroudwater Canal . |
| 37 | He added that Virgin was taking up the matter of the fairness of take-off and landing slots at UK airports with the European Commission . |
| 38 | Well , and then I went on to Rome to look at a Goldoni production and I had to see the Pope , but I tell you — I hope you 're not Catholic — the sight of the old pullet being cheered up the aisle of St. Peter 's … |
| 39 | ‘ I was only young at the time , but I can still recall the funeral , and the flat cart with his coffin being pulled up the field by his horse . |
| 40 | The big man and the woman were running up the gulley , towards its narrow end . |
| 41 | Rubbish is pulled up the tube . |
| 42 | Motorola 's current role is to open up the merchant market for PowerPCs , selling to those who wo n't buy from IBM , the chip 's originator . |
| 43 | Motorola 's current role is to open up the merchant market for PowerPCs , selling to those that wo n't buy from IBM , the chip 's originator . |
| 44 | Upstairs in the nursery the baby is tearing up The Anatomy of Melancholy , and eating it page by page . |
| 45 | ‘ You know you 're not telling me the truth , Barbara , ’ said Cardiff , shining the torch in her direction now that Jimmy Devlin 's torches arrangement was lighting up the basement like the stage of some avant-garde theatre . |
| 46 | When the blind is drawn up the scallops become even fuller . |
| 47 | The warm , damp air is forced up the hillsides and the clouds shed torrents of tropical rain . |
| 48 | No , no , if you got called away there would n't be anybody to take over until the next relief if , if the man was coming up the dock with two yo yo well you would n't be able to get in touch with him either . |
| 49 | Meanwhile he began to suspect that the Shipping Federation was buying up the union 's debts . |
| 50 | We might note the irony at this point : the purpose of experimentation was to clear up the confusions , contradictions , and conflicting advice of common sense . |
| 51 | His voice was creeping up the scale . |
| 52 | In the ensuing mêlée , McLaren , Reid and others of the Pistols camp were dragged up the gangplank and into the waiting police vans . |
| 53 | The conclusion that Nizan wishes to highlight is lucidly straightforward : The forces of fascism are taking up the fight against the anti-fascist educator . |
| 54 | Her new brief is to build up the NCB 's department . |
| 55 | But not everyone here thinks the answer is to dig up the fields and destroy the character of the community . |
| 56 | His only answer was to pick up the knife and hand it to me . |
| 57 | We discovered that the significance of value for money is creeping up the scale , particularly for the corporate buyer , the person in a company that 's in charge of buying travel services . |
| 58 | If it is upsetting to think that the education system now denies many children that voyage of discovery which begins on the muddy playing field , it is encouraging to learn that sport at club level is taking up the strain . |
| 59 | The effect of removing noise is to clean up the image while the effect of removing local variability is to smooth the boundaries and emphasize the regional pattern present in the image . |
| 60 | ‘ The hardest part of the whole technique is building up the independence of the finger that holds the bottleneck . |