Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [prep] a [noun sg] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late in the night , towards moonset , Hazel was looking up from a cut where they were crouching to a little bank above . |
| 2 | I worry about my daughter , she 's growing up in a world where things are inevitably going ’ Asked whether he may just possibly have got it all wrong , Hopkins pauses melodramatically . |
| 3 | If only people were the same , Harriet Shakespeare would not be staring up at a house where terrorists were holding her son . |
| 4 | Mm yes but we 're coming up to a time when er the quantity of old people is going to be rather high than before because we 're all healthier . |
| 5 | There were quite a few battles before Pearce got British Aerospace on the road to privatisation , particularly with civil servants and ‘ officials who were not really responsible , but tended to sit on the sidelines criticising and always coming up with a reason why you could n't do anything . ’ |