Example sentences of "would be [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The agent was forever calling him , wanting to know if , this time , you 'd be taking up the ticket . |
| 2 | He knew that the howling wind would be whipping up the downfall into deep drifts on the exposed high moor . |
| 3 | We noted earlier that the immediate effect of increased investment in investment trusts would be to push up the price of their shares without resulting in any extra flow of funds from savers to borrowers . |
| 4 | The main effect of an enzyme , altering b1 to b2 , would be to speed up the rate at which bonds were broken . |
| 5 | One tempting remedy would be to speed up the SFO 's act . |
| 6 | Down below the bridge , he knew , about eight or nine shambling street people would be setting up the plastic pallets and bakers ' trays that would keep them off the floor for the night . |
| 7 | And she knew that her male colleagues would be propping up the bar of a public house , by eleven o'clock . |
| 8 | She would appear at the gates of the Waaf Site about 10.45pm , armed with a torch half the size of the Flamborough lighthouse , when upwards of a dozen couples would be propping up the fence saying goodnight . |
| 9 | Used be able to sit in the car would be go up the back do n't they ? |
| 10 | A better move , would be to shore up the defence , Ken Monku might move considering Southampton position . |
| 11 | Old ICM hands had nodded sagely and told us how difficult it would be to keep up the pace of attending the plenary , the working parties , the fringe meetings and the delegation briefings … and did we believe them ? |
| 12 | At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve . |
| 13 | AT A time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely with such grace . |
| 14 | The company had also trimmed £46,000 from its advertising budget , and would be putting up the price of cards from 20p to 25p . |
| 15 | One thing you might want to do as a way of putting an argument together would be to look up the word " Romanticism " in the dictionary , since Byron 's poetry belongs to this literary movement . |