Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It also means that if one photographer you know and like is booked up the other one will probably be free to work with you .
2 Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree .
3 They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league .
4 Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free .
5 ‘ Quite a number of our staff live in Wimbledon and some practical jokers have been putting up the other Graham Hadley 's pamphlets , ’ he says .
6 He has now undergone a total of 10 operations , of which five have been to straighten up the three remaining toes on his left foot .
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