Example sentences of "was [v-ing] up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teal Green was coughing up a lungful of smoke when the Base was plunged into darkness . |
| 2 | When they came to the apartment , Mary-Claude was cooking up a storm in the kitchen , Sarah was squalling in her crib in the front bedroom and in the back it was wall-to-wall Star Wars , with all the electronic gear we had in there . |
| 3 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 4 | A monster 's mum was hanging up the washing in the garden when she suddenly yelled at him : |
| 5 | Calderpark Zoo in Broomhouse was building up a collection of small furry things and a few larger ones , and Easterhouse , Garthamlock and Ruchazie were still bramble-filled lanes between the Edinburgh Road and Stepps . |
| 6 | Folkestone was a pocket borough of the Rothschilds , Southend was falling under the control of the Guinness family , Plymouth was learning to love the Astors , and Samuel Roberts was building up the influence in Sheffield that was to provide a seat for his family until 1966 . |
| 7 | The Committee decided to form a government and by Wednesday 1 March Miliukov , who had emerged as the dominant figure , was drawing up a list of potential cabinet ministers . |
| 8 | Labour said it was stepping up the pressure for an urgent Commons statement from the Chancellor to clarify which areas of spending were ruled in or out from the Treasury review . |
| 9 | There was a sour smell and the growing heat of the sun was sucking up a mist from the waters . |
| 10 | Here he studied under Otto Wallach , who was opening up the chemistry of terpenes natural products important as flavours and fragrances . |
| 11 | Drunks were making a din on the stairs and a sculptor was tearing up a collection of Kisling 's drawings and throwing them down on to the head of the concierge . |
| 12 | He was quite near Philip now and was climbing up the bank towards the spot where Philip had thrown the stone . |
| 13 | Wearing plastic gloves , he was picking up a pipe from a glass bowl to slip it inside a transparent bag . |
| 14 | Mind you when she went home she noticed her accent was getting worse and worse and she was picking up a sort of English reticence or so they enjoyed telling her . |
| 15 | Two well-turned-out girls in green aprons and an even smarter-looking youth waited to serve a customer who was picking up a bunch of grapes . |
| 16 | It would be nice to think their affair had meant something to him , and after Seville he was picking up the pieces of his life and had found happiness with another woman . |
| 17 | Only a few weeks after returning from playing with polar bears in Spitsbergen , I was soaking up the sun in the Seychelles . |
| 18 | Father Crispin had unfortunately just knocked over a wine cup and was cleaning up the mess with a napkin . |
| 19 | Between 1800 and 1850 , however , a hard soapy-looking yellow brick was pouring up the Thames from Suffolk , and most of the new Middlesex churches were built of it . |
| 20 | One was hoovering up a plate of sausage and chips while reading the Sun . |
| 21 | His companion was zipping up a pair of the khaki overalls . |
| 22 | Bourne was scooping up the soup of the day with precise , efficient movements — never a drop spilled , never a slurp . |
| 23 | She was holding up the collar of her blouse and gradually twisting it . |
| 24 | He said he would look into a dispute which was holding up the release of Brussels cash to help build some factories on the site of the old Darlington forge . |
| 25 | Tony sat it out — in my tent I feel obliged to tell him — listening for the noise of a train , a noise that meant the wind was coming up the defile between him and the sea . |
| 26 | No , no , if you got called away there would n't be anybody to take over until the next relief if , if the man was coming up the dock with two yo yo well you would n't be able to get in touch with him either . |
| 27 | As Roger Forester was closing up the cottage behind him DI Mike Schaffer was swinging his legs off a creaking camp-bed in the office of the Langstone schoolhouse and sitting groggily upright . |
| 28 | There I finally decided to throw in my efforts at making contact with the Delhi eunuchs ; it was taking up a lot of time and there was still no hint of a breakthrough : after ten days I still knew as little about them as I had when I had begun . |
| 29 | As Clinton was taking up the reins of power , a disconsolate President Bush flew back to Washington to make arrangements for the handover . |
| 30 | He added that Virgin was taking up the matter of the fairness of take-off and landing slots at UK airports with the European Commission . |