Example sentences of "was [verb] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school . |
| 2 | Charles could see at first-hand the tension that was building up in the vast depressing wastelands of the inner cities , where young people had no work , no ambition , no feeling of belonging , no pride in their surroundings — nothing , in fact , to get out of bed for in the mornings . |
| 3 | But all that was happening was , the overflow pipe from the Koi quarters was partially blocked : this meant that an abnormally high head of water was building up in the main pool , bringing the level above the sealed junction between liner and blockwork . |
| 4 | Nervous pressure was building up in the United team when Irwin put a 64th-minute corner kick deep into the heart of the Southampton penalty area . |
| 5 | Now a mile or two ahead , we could see a white line where the swell was crashing up on the fringing reef . |
| 6 | His solution was to come up with the first table of annual premiums based on life expectancy . |
| 7 | So the problem was to come up with the right kind of songs which would still act as vehicles for the guitar — because , basically , the song itself is the most important thing . |
| 8 | The paper published by the Commission is to be submitted to EC transport ministers ; it had been in preparation for some time , but work was speeded up following the recent tanker accidents in the Shetlands and at La Coruna in northern Spain [ see ED 67 ] . |
| 9 | My work-rate was speeded up by the further drops of rain that fell on me . |
| 10 | It is even closer to Paul 's description of the man who was caught up into the third heaven ( 2 Corinthians 12:2 ) . |
| 11 | Like her French contemporaries Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun or Adelaide Labille-Guiard , Angelica Kauffman was caught up in the contradictory politics of class and gender through the elite patronage without which she could not work . |
| 12 | Prayers for the safety of John Dakyn were probably necessary , as he was caught up in the religious controversies of the age . |
| 13 | It was picked up on the fourth ring by an answerphone . |
| 14 | The phone was picked up at the other end and Charles pressed his two p into the coinbox . |
| 15 | An emissary from London to St Petersburg was picked up at the imperial frontier and a large number of compromising letters fell into the hands of tsarist investigators . |
| 16 | Although the ex the special allowance was actually withdrawn , but nevertheless , the responsibility for generally dealing with it , was picked up by the local authority . |
| 17 | Yet , when the think-tank was wound up at the first Cabinet meeting after the 1983 general election , not a single minister spoke up in its defence . |
| 18 | The company was wound up in the High Court in February 1989 with tax debts of £35,520 . |
| 19 | I was fed up with the yucky mouldy silicone round the edge and reckoned a proper job should be done on it . |
| 20 | You said er , I told , I told him I was fed up with the General Secretary of this union that had n't given us any backing and you said sorry Phil , but I 'm not the General Secretary . |
| 21 | I was fed up with the European promoters who seemed obsessed by the American sprinters . |
| 22 | ‘ It was an obvious choice , partly because of all the business they were doing in Europe and also because the public was fed up with the same old faces ; here was someone fresh at last , ’ recalls Peter Batty , director of the him . |
| 23 | He was fed up with the whole situation , and all Francesca 's family . |
| 24 | A BUS manager who was forced to give up a rural route said yesterday she was fed up with the whole business . |
| 25 | brown tiles and it was brown tiles all in that room and of course we could n't , we had started a business and all the money had gone into the business and we could n't afford to , to start carpeting , it was impossible , so , but that room really looked superb I think , I had huge rugs , you know , one in front of the fireplace and another one this end and the other end in colour , in colours , and there really , it really looked nice and the floor was polished up to the nines , you know , er right through here all polished all the same colour |
| 26 | Heath had heeded official opinion , which argued that now too much policy-making was bottled up in the super ministry and too little was reaching Cabinet . |
| 27 | And very soon after that , Matilda was moved up into the top form where Miss Plimsoll quickly discovered that this amazing child was every bit as bright as Miss Honey had said . |
| 28 | The Donaldson matter was petty and tiresome but much of office life was made up of the petty and tiresome . |
| 29 | This was made up of the organic residues of farms , forestry , industry and domestic refuse . |
| 30 | The television-viewing public was made up of the older stay-at-homes , not the swinging exotics whose exploits filled the front pages of the newspapers . |