Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse still , the new skiers — beginners — who should have been making up for those who stop because old age or the arrival of infants stops ski holidays — were simply not attracted to a sport when everyone was complaining about bad conditions . |
| 2 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 3 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
| 4 | Toby Tobias was quickest away and Desert Orchid could find no more , but the race was far from finished , for as Mark Pitman on Toby Tobias made for the winning post Graham McCourt urged Norton 's Coin to a final effort , and as the two jockeys , whips swishing , pushed their courageous mounts up the hill the cheers from the stands which moments before had been tuning up for another Dessie triumph lapsed into a disbelieving murmur : this was not the right script at all . |
| 5 | The Cavaliers and Roundheads have been stocking up for another season , re-enacting the English Civil War . |
| 6 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |