Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's just been filled up with petrol so you 've no worry there . ’ |
| 2 | Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training . |
| 3 | Stars are queueing up for treatment at Holby Hospital — the setting for the controversial BBC series Casualty . |
| 4 | Does he agree that the fact that so many parts of the country are queueing up for ESA status is a tribute to him and to the usefulness of such areas ? |
| 5 | The military style great coat , which we featured a couple of weeks ago , is probably THE single item fashion victims are queueing up for . |
| 6 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
| 7 | Lionel who had been catching up on news from Yorkshire , said , ‘ My brother tells me Hawksworth at the Hall has netted an enormous fish . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 9 | Later generations of women have been catching up with their male contemporaries as far as the acquisition of paper qualifications is concerned . |
| 10 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 11 | ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … . |
| 12 | The night-time , the time after she had been tucked up in bed , that was the proper time for Fenna , for flying and dreams . |
| 13 | Things have been patched up between us by Lord Coleworthy , who likes me and thinks I do a good job . |
| 14 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 15 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
| 16 | You know , they , they yes , yes they go to the Madechie shops and Athena or whatever and there looking at the best , and you ca n't afford it See Maryann and Richard are given up on erm buying Christmas presents because she says your buying things for people they do n't really want , everybody , therefore I think tokeny things are the best , and that 's what I 've bought this year . |
| 17 | The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team . |
| 18 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 19 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 20 | Two cars are drawing up outside Number 17 and quite a lot of people are going in the front door . |
| 21 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 22 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
| 23 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 24 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 25 | Fortunately , some experience had been building up on the European continent , in Holland in particular , with DMUs which had very reliable and cost-effective engines and transmissions . |
| 26 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 27 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 28 | Production had been building up at Courtaulds ' $85 million plant near Mobile , Alabama , since June , 1992 . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 30 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |