Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [v-ing] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the computers were cracking up on the factory floor this morning . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The year 1973 came close to repeating the triumphs of 1972 but , as usual in FI , other cars were catching up with the Lotus , though not in qualifying , for 1973 was the year in which Ronnie Peterson notched an astonishing nine pole positions and a place on the front row in twelve of the season 's fifteen races , as against one and five for Emerson , Peterson finishing a mere three points behind Fittipaldi . |
| 4 | All eyes were looking up at the pit lane screens as every lap , every move , was relayed on to the tube |
| 5 | one thing 's for sure the appointment of John Gorman is a popular one on the terraces … he 's given the fans what they crave for … and that 's loyalty … from first thing this morning supporters were rolling up at the County Ground to have their say |
| 6 | Two placards were leaning up against the walls . |
| 7 | It was like a dream that Sam could neither halt nor awake from : the gulls were screaming overhead and the rollers were thundering up against the Gribbin . |
| 8 | Some figures were coming up from the road to meet him , a girl and a couple of boys . |
| 9 | Little lights were springing up in the woods as if the houses thus made apparent had been magicked into position on that instant . |
| 10 | Towards evening , when the grass started to take on the dry crackle of hay , it was as if the small handshakings were springing up in the meadow . |
| 11 | The torch had caught the planks laid across it and the flames were reaching up towards the rafters above . |
| 12 | The dustbin men were picking up outside The Wife 's Legs . |
| 13 | The snowflakes were caking up on the dried grasses and ferns on either bank . |
| 14 | Black rain clouds were riding up from the south , killing the light and making the day seem almost over . |
| 15 | Black clouds were rolling up over the forest to his right , which now looked hostile , as though it were waiting for him to make a false move ; to tall perhaps , so that it could advance and swallow him , like a wild animal . |
| 16 | Clouds were creeping up over the edges of the trees and the river 's surface was turning black . |
| 17 | Some time ago he had ordered that the front garden be flagged over , and now the weeds were pushing up between the paving slabs and the stones themselves had sunk in the ground at one end . |
| 18 | Daffodils were coming up in the garden but it would be dark when his guests came to the house to eat their meal . |
| 19 | All their backs were coming up like the clappers . |