Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [v-ing] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alcoholic Geoffrey Frederick Gregory was drinking up to 12 pints a day back in 1979 . |
| 2 | David Attenborough was crawling up behind two copulating lions . |
| 3 | Jed was coming up to five years old , very bright but also very quiet … so quiet that she worried sometimes , wondering if there were things wrong that he was n't telling her . |
| 4 | It was estimated by the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) that Iraq was holding up to 40,000 Iranian PoWs ( more than half of them unregistered as such ) and that Iran held up to 70,000 Iraqi PoWs ( of whom some 50,000 were registered ) . |
| 5 | And winger Franz Carr ruined two promising build-ups with poor crosses when Deane and Hodges were lining up for clear strikes at goal . |