Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 2 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 3 | The possible phonemic function of each allophonic description found by HWIM 's Acoustic Phonetic Recognizer was scored by looking up in a long term confusion matrix the vector of 71 phoneme labels that could be associated with the segment 's feature description . |
| 4 | She remembered waking up in a long room filled with covered beds ; knocking a uniformed man to the ground ; taking his gun and running . |
| 5 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 6 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |