Example sentences of "he [be] [v-ing] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike .
2 Here he is sitting up in the marital bed , his jaw ruggedly clenched on his unlit pipe .
3 See if my husband wants a hand with these bits of wood he 's plonking up against the wall !
4 He 's dressing up as the Lincoln Imp ; the original imp is a carving in Lincoln cathedral .
5 We see how he 's shaping up to the ‘ new age ’ ahead , and offer some thoughts of our own .
6 I think he 's coming I think he 's coming up to the high week group , what is he ?
7 He 's something he 's , he 's , he 's some , something to do with er with er , with the area and erm , and he 's coming up for the high week group some time in the next , little while , and I said to him you were the group 's
8 and this bloke nearly had the sense , he said he 's coming up on the Friday ?
9 I followed him out of the City until I was convinced he was packing up for the day .
10 Richard 's face was bleeding and she knew he was shouting up at the people .
11 He wriggled back further on the bed till he was leaning up against the wall .
12 He was looking up at the sign over the door .
13 He was gazing up at the stars , probably communing with the Mother Ship and receiving new instructions .
14 He was drawing up outside the hall when he thought of Graham Young .
15 By day 22 he was getting up at the ‘ correct ’ time ( that is , his morning and real morning coincided ) , but had lost a whole day .
16 During the sittings , he was always in good spirits ; and as long as you did not try to glimpse what he was putting up on the canvas , he would dilate on any subject that took his fancy .
17 Ronnie , 54 , hit the headlines when he thumped the mayor in the face after his civic car ran over Christmas lights he was stringing up in the centre of Frome , Somerset .
18 She turned around , groping for the door-handle , and saw he was staring up at the small terraced house with interest .
19 He was dancing up to the youngest dog again , sideways this time , head on one side , goading him .
20 Thinking how quiet she 'd gone when he said he was coming up for the funeral and how she 'd seemed to withdraw into herself .
21 ‘ Well , ’ the boy said , ‘ he was working up on the roof , so I could n't give it to him .
22 Now he 'd told me he was going up to the Cathedral .
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