Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [v-ing] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when you got pass there Ju do n't forget you say I am going up to middle class ! |
| 2 | Yes Karen all right I 'm building up to that for goodness sake . |
| 3 | Well I 'm staying up for one more game |
| 4 | I sit and read and I 'm tightening up like this and I like that to sort of |
| 5 | I 'm going up to that there mass of spaghetti , and I 'm going to make sure . ’ |
| 6 | I were tidying up at half past six this morning . |
| 7 | ‘ While other children were out playing I was practising up to 30 hours a week after school . |
| 8 | I did , so I was creeping up like this |
| 9 | ‘ I was climbing up through this favela ; I should n't even have been there . |
| 10 | If you are going up to senior positions movement is essential ; even people who may plateau out at middle management will have done a lot of different jobs for three , four , five years . |
| 11 | ‘ But you are making up for that today , ’ said Dr Neil gravely , his mouth twitching , particularly when she looked at him , a question on her pretty face , her mouth being too full for further speech . |
| 12 | But if you are charged a few pounds , you 'll soon make up the difference once you 're filling up with cheaper , lead-free petrol . |
| 13 | What that means is that when you 're facing up to foreign situations , you tend to pull together you tend not to divide you tend not to emphasise the differences between you . |
| 14 | Got to stop and then you say you 're going up to middle class . |
| 15 | And we went up there , oh dear , driving up there you 're going up on this little tiny when you 've got a big car . |
| 16 | Right you started so you 're going up in hundreds , it 's two squares at a time , but only one hundred for each two squares . |
| 17 | And erm the erm your view is completely blocked altogether when you 're coming up to that roundabout , as you know they come up from erm Southfield Road and Divinity Road which comes up on to that roundabout , and erm I think it 's very very dangerous . |
| 18 | ‘ No , I know it is n't and you 're closing up before nine , are n't you ? |
| 19 | ‘ But I ca n't see why you 're putting up with such nonsense . |
| 20 | We told him that you had been out all night and that you were catching up on some sleep . |
| 21 | Horrified , she was glancing up at one of the windows above the porch and what she saw blanched what little remaining colour she had from her face . |
| 22 | I did n't twig at the time but really she just wanted to hang out in the shop and she was coming up with any old excuse she could find to be in there . |
| 23 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 24 | We 're setting up in another hangar and hope to be back in business soon . |
| 25 | Now what 's happening up here , we 're going up in hundreds . |
| 26 | Well there 's a couple of things I will , I 'll , I 'll add then before we 're shutting up about this . |
| 27 | with a s as we were picking up from last week , a c a c in , in a sense that land reform is , is already taking place , there is this sort of groundswell from the masses that to move beyond the , the moderate policy and that is then formalized in the May the fourth directive which marks like the return to land reform going back to and then y y y y you 've got the implementation of that May the fourth directive and then out of a very difficult position in nineteen forty seven when they , they are under attack from the Kuomintang and i in the spring of nineteen forty seven is actually taken by Kuomintang . |
| 28 | And so we were going up from that price to that price . |
| 29 | They are teaming up with British and American publishers for simultaneous English and German editions of the same book , or themselves issuing an increasing number of bilingual ( usually German/English ) books . |
| 30 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |