Example sentences of "be [v-ing] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 2 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 3 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 4 | With the tent flap closed , the heat had been building up under the canvas . |
| 5 | Towards the end of the 19th century , a crisis had been building up over the names of organic compounds . |
| 6 | While his loving note helped to sooth her misgivings , it was difficult to control the inner turmoil which had been building up over the months . |
| 7 | Pressures for change had been building up within the legislature for some time and these were to be given added impetus by the events surrounding the resignation of President Nixon . |
| 8 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 9 | Bookmakers Ladbrokes are catching up with the odds on races on four wheels instead of four legs and offering odds on Senna ( 11–8 ) and Prost ( 7–4 ) for the world championship during the week the cars were being loaded for the opening grand prix in Phoenix . |
| 10 | Now that new possibilities are opening up in the Balkans , they will modify this . |
| 11 | TEENAGE girls are ending up with the bones of old women because of eating disorders which are producing ‘ horrifying results ’ , a doctor said yesterday . |
| 12 | It is also particularly difficult to discover your place in a speech after you have been looking up at the audience . |
| 13 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 14 | Can any of you who are meeting up for the spurs game do me a favour , please ? |
| 15 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 16 | How is he to measure it against ‘ Look before you leap ’ , ‘ Care for your parents ’ , and such other imperatives as he has been picking up on the way ? |
| 17 | They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years . |
| 18 | But they are unable to process this and obviously that will be different for children at different stages of their development erm younger children being particularly susceptible to the sort of atmosphere around them , and if they are picking up from the adults around them , be that through the media or within the context of their everyday lives , that there is something dangerous and disturbing going on , then they are obviously going to reflect that unease in their behaviour . |
| 19 | Well I mean , if you bought them and then you 're building up during the year , but you know , we can always have them for |
| 20 | It enables your staff to know themselves how well they 're doing their job , and if they 're keeping up to the mark . |
| 21 | So that you 're keeping up with the fractions . |
| 22 | Cos you know , you you 're cracking up with the noise , it 's quite easy to er shake your three year old or your |
| 23 | Not really , just sort of helps you know what you what you 're picking up off the shelf . |
| 24 | They 're looking up at the sign board , and holding each other 's hand . |
| 25 | They 're growing up in the village . |
| 26 | You 're running up to the thing , yeah ? |
| 27 | And often you forget , and your brain flies off somewhere to do something else , I fancied that bird last night , God the beer 's rough in that bloody hotel , I wonder what that , I wonder how they 're doing up at the depot ? |
| 28 | They 're coming up for the luggage . ’ |
| 29 | Well first time , first time you 're coming up to the supermarket , drop it , drop them in |
| 30 | They 're all th round there , round that dahlia they 're coming up in the corner over there , and there 's some here , and I think they 're all coming . |