Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ She appears when I am alone clearing up the bar . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | At the moment I am just making up the numbers . |
| 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 | 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 ? |
| 6 | That shows that you 're actually picking up the sound . |
| 7 | Regulators are busily clearing up the mess . |
| 8 | You are also turning up the relics of perennial weeds that can be difficult to eliminate later . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We were soon building up the idea of productivity … |
| 13 | We were just picking up the malai national programme . |
| 14 | It was all those problems , and a few more , that were now fouling up the North Sea and other parts of Britain . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The British colonies were steadily filling up the Atlantic seacoast and populating the area fairly densely . |
| 17 | In the sort snow-lit darkness people were systematically sicking up the food which they had saved for so long . |
| 18 | So though these remarks are addressed to beginners , I believe that some of the formal ideas could well be considered anew by the great number of talented young composers who are either clambering up the rungs of the ladder of fame or jostling for a foothold . |
| 19 | I do not want to make too much of them , but there are bogus applications and they are completely clogging up the system . |
| 20 | therefore it is quite important to grasp at this stage that moving the lace carriage to transfer stitches is only setting up the pattern of holes that will next be knitted in by the main carriage . |
| 21 | He said he 's just revving up the car engine . |
| 22 | Motorola , Mace says , is still cleaning up the part and does n't want to announce pricing or general availability until later in the year . |
| 23 | That magnificent engineering achievement the Humber Bridge is further opening up the area , improving communications and eventually leading to an East Coast motorway , linking up with newly completed roads on the north bank . |
| 24 | She 's probably heating up the mince pies so we can have them hot when we 're sitting on the floor in front of the Christmas tree trying to guess what the wrapped up prezzies are . |
| 25 | Datacraft , a $70m Australian integrator , is also picking up the stuff . |
| 26 | It is also speeding up the installation of cab radios linked to signal boxes , and is adopting major changes in management practice to ensure that the safety measures are properly implemented . |
| 27 | and he 's now going up the point of the house but he ca n't get no further . |
| 28 | It took him half an hour 's fast driving up the autobahn to reach the disaster point . |
| 29 | It is currently drawing up the goals it intends to achieve , which , as an Opportunity 2000 signatory , it is required to announce publicly . |
| 30 | The last part of the resolution is it 's actually taking up the area , where at the present time we have n't got a D S O. It seems stupid that you go into a school and you can clean , clean their classrooms , cut their grass and look after their , do their grounds maintenance , cook the kids ' dinners , but you ca n't do any minor repairs , you 've got to call in another organisation . |