Example sentences of "was [v-ing] up [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A splendid noisy scene was building up nicely in the breakfast room . |
| 2 | The word ‘ rescue ’ was looming up somewhere in the sentence ahead . |
| 3 | The Darling Buds Of May returned and suddenly Miss Zeta Jones was popping up all over the place . |
| 4 | Yeah , that i , is precisely , it is n't the case with everyone , I mean , I think that what the girl was saying up there about the groups going round , it 's a great idea ! |
| 5 | Startled , George turned his head to stare at a woman who was standing up somewhere in the middle of the tight-packed rows of the audience . |
| 6 | What we did n't relish was queuing up again in the gloom of the stairwell to get it . |