Example sentences of "i have [be] [v-ing] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't had a lot of luck finding the man I wanted , but at least I 'd been getting up to date on my social exercises , like who was drinking with who , and in what bars . |
| 2 | I 've been reading up on brochs , but when you 're actually there it 's really just the setting that 's so marvellous , and trying to imagine the sort of life they lived . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Never , but I 've been reading up on the history . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 6 | I 've been saving up towards a Christmas food hamper all year and now it 's arrived I 'm very disappointed with it . |
| 7 | I 've been picking up after them all night and all morning . |
| 8 | ‘ I got a whole morning off in Bruges , and I guess I 've been making up for it ever since . ’ |
| 9 | " Well , I 've been sitting up with one of my best sows . |
| 10 | 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 . |