Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | The shift , if that 's what it is , mirrors the way shipments have been shaping up during the three months since they started . |
| 3 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 4 | It is also particularly difficult to discover your place in a speech after you have been looking up at the audience . |
| 5 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 6 | The marquees have been going up for the Hay on Wye festival of Literature which begins tonight . |
| 7 | But yields on long-term bonds have been edging up since the middle of March , a sign that investors expect inflation to rise . |