Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the stage we define broadly as intermediate , learners are some way towards developing control of the language they are learning : their store of language has grown to a point where they can adapt , adjust and add to it with some facility ; they can transfer language use from one context to another ; they are building up more complex networks of language and the work we do in the classroom at this level is similarly more complex and less controlled . |
| 2 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 3 | It amazed me to think that even though the gay bar had been situated up those dark stairs for many years , the straight men downstairs managed to keep up the impetus so that no queen should pass without an insult . |
| 4 | People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps . |
| 5 | We are drawing up another list which includes ICL and Sun . ’ |
| 6 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 7 | Although some have done this display before , the tension 's been building up all week . |
| 8 | Tension 's been building up all week . |
| 9 | ‘ When you are sucking up all that filthy water from the River Orne into your tank , I shall be further along the river bank playing the bagpipes . ’ |
| 10 | Who 's been tearing up all the newspaper that the wet wellies were on ? |
| 11 | Current debates on lesbian ‘ dress sense ’ are opening up more possibilities for experiment with image . |
| 12 | Maybe the two are mixed up some way or another . |
| 13 | The part of the city through which they were walking reminded Zen of Venice , but a Venice brutally fractured , as though each canal were a geological fault and the houses to either side had taken a plunge or been wrenched up all askew and left to tumble back on themselves , throwing out buttresses and retaining walls for support as best they could . |
| 14 | Developed from the Laser 28 , the RF290 has been notching up some impressive results , winning at least three class 1sts in the Hamble Winter Series . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't think we are wound up more than other teams . |
| 16 | I 'll been looking up these things . |
| 17 | The double volume , Ogwen & Carneddau , will hopefully be in the shops by Easter ; Llanberis , at the time of writing , has much of the text complete , thanks to Iwan Arfon Jones , and Paul Williams has been rounding up all the loose ends . |
| 18 | We 've been picking up some bad vibes on that guy . |
| 19 | Although things are looking up this year , operating profits in 1990 fell to $201.3m compared with $266.1m in the previous year . |
| 20 | He 's been made up this morning , he 's had a big tax rebate , fifteen hundred quid ! |
| 21 | Clearly there 's no systematic structure in those residuals , right , if the residuals were moving in a cyclical manner erm that would imply that we are missing an important explanatory variable in our model and its systematic effect has been just thrown into the error term and as a result we are picking up that systematic effect in , in residuals . |
| 22 | The housing tenure variables which are picking up any supply side effects on the offer probabilities via mobility effects have the expected signs but most are insignificant . |
| 23 | That 's good , you 're using up all the adrenaline , it 's not remaining in your bloodstream . |
| 24 | He said , Look up there , and you 'll see a crane , he says , We 're going up that ladder . |
| 25 | If you 're going up that house on Friday afternoon . |
| 26 | You did n't say that , you 're going up this time if you wanted that . |
| 27 | If you want this constitution ratified I ca n't go back to my people and say you 're giving up all your independence , there 's a new national government which is gon na decide everything . |
| 28 | Only two Company trucks and you 're taking up all that valuable space with fizz ? |
| 29 | We 've got to find , we 're taking up all very well , er Jane ? |
| 30 | yeah , mine 's going along quite nicely too and my , I 've taken some er cuttings and they 're popped up this week |