Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ She appears when I am alone clearing up the bar . |
| 2 | ‘ But you are kinda running up a backlog in my favour account . ’ |
| 3 | In compulsory competitive tendering the Government are merely bringing up the rear and ensuring that local authorities that have not yet taken advantage of those techniques are brought up to the level of the best . |
| 4 | His eyes are already lining up the entry point as he begins to ease off the front brake and apply handlebar and footrest pressure to steer the bike . |
| 5 | I am concerned that many young people with learning difficulties are not taking up the assessment offered in their final year of education . |
| 6 | I 'm surprised that we 're not picking up a bit more a few more highlights , it 's a bit . |
| 7 | Perhaps you 're not picking up the tone . |
| 8 | As long as you 're not going up the village |
| 9 | we get on the train at , most of them get on at Elstree luckily so what we do is we open the doors and they 're always crowding up the bit where the door is and they say excuse me may I get on please ? |
| 10 | That shows that you 're actually picking up the sound . |
| 11 | Regulators are busily clearing up the mess . |
| 12 | Organisers of Wirral 's Initiative for Needy Children ( Winch ) are also lining up a celebrity spot-kick contest for the same day at Prenton Park . |
| 13 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 14 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 15 | The Leeders are now drawing up a petition which will be presented to the Bishop of Chelmsford next month . |
| 16 | Scientists at Liverpool University are now drawing up a breeding programme for the UK herd . |
| 17 | Some Californians who visited us are now setting up a centre in San Francisco , ’ said Tabkay. — Tabkay seated in one of the gompas in front of a geling , a wind instrument he has mastered . |
| 18 | I 'm glad I , I 'm not going up the chimney ! |
| 19 | ‘ How quick and how right you are ; we could deal very well together — you 'll find I am a generous lover , as long as you understand I 'm not walking up the aisle with you , or any other woman . ’ |
| 20 | But I 'm not giving up the day job — yet . |
| 21 | Well , in that we 're , I 'm just , I 'm just bringing up a point that yes he , he , it seems that he could well say something like well , the cow herder or the shepherd down the road has got as much of the right as anybody else . |
| 22 | I 'm just tidying up a bit while you 're singing darling |
| 23 | He said : ‘ Thank you no I 'm just picking up a book George promised me . ’ |
| 24 | And now societies still interested in the conversion possibility will be carefully weighing up the reception given to the Guardian scheme compared with Abbey 's . |
| 25 | Northamptonshire police this afternoon said they were not following up the incident . |
| 26 | We were soon building up the idea of productivity … |
| 27 | A sense that what had just happened involved her in some way made her pull herself together and run down on to the course where racecourse attendants were already putting up a screen . |
| 28 | DETECTIVES were yesterday following up a number of leads after an appeal on national television for information about a Darlington building society robbery . |
| 29 | They were now proceeding up a driveway bordered on each side by shrubs : and then quite suddenly they emerged into an open area . |
| 30 | 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 . |