Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [adv] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were just picking up the malai national programme . |
| 2 | We were soon building up the idea of productivity … |
| 3 | I never had a chance to see if anyone had been hurt or not because we were already accelerating up the next stretch of road . |
| 4 | Today they were simply soaking up the atmosphere and enjoying a tour of the province 's most popular sites , including a shopping trip to Belfast city centre and a visit to the Giant 's Causeway . |
| 5 | Its arms clutched these objects as they were individually passed up the ladder to its niche : followed by its disembodied head , with a physiognomy very close to that of the photographs of the deceased . |
| 6 | The substance of building surveying has not changed appreciably over the years and while certain aspects of the more academic subjects of economics and law have been latterly introduced , they were there to prop up the whole discipline rather than to provide invaluable information . |
| 7 | No doubt they were still digging up the little graveyard . |