Example sentences of "was [v-ing] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noble sold the mill and by 1887 it had been taken over by Moses John Mason who , at his peak , was producing up to four tons of millboard per week . |
| 2 | He looked wild-eyed , and his hair was sticking up at all angles . |
| 3 | At places it was sinking up to eighteen inches . |
| 4 | Jed was coming up to five years old , very bright but also very quiet … so quiet that she worried sometimes , wondering if there were things wrong that he was n't telling her . |
| 5 | Alcoholic Geoffrey Frederick Gregory was drinking up to 12 pints a day back in 1979 . |
| 6 | ‘ While other children were out playing I was practising up to 30 hours a week after school . |