Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE in County Durham are stepping up the fight against crime after a wide ranging shake-up in senior personnel . |
| 2 | It might be very hard for Ireland to get five on the team , but the way things are shaping up the selectors will probably not care where the players come from . |
| 3 | We also pledge that when we are drawing up the membership of the commission we shall take into account his earlier suggestions about widening the membership . |
| 4 | Ratners marketing director Simon de Mille says : ‘ We are speeding up the process . |
| 5 | De Burgh is speaking us very fairly and friendly , but both his hands are gathering up the borders round us . |
| 6 | The feelings that are carried up the aisle or into the registry office are presumably countless . |
| 7 | Eggs escape under the bursa of the male and are carried up the trachea in the excess mucus produced in response to infection : they are then swallowed and passed in the faeces . |
| 8 | Fran Bennett , CPAG director , suggests both major parties are softening up the public for more means-testing and fewer rights to universal benefits . |
| 9 | Customers are snapping up the top quality magazine with its wonderful photography and editorial . |
| 10 | And Swindon are bouncing up the table into third now . |
| 11 | Small wonder that green products , halfway genuine or frankly fake , are filling up the supermarket shelves . |
| 12 | On the plus side , the arrival of VAT on domestic supplies should encourage people to think about saving energy in the home , thereby reducing the demand on coal , oil and gas and , therefore , cutting emissions of carbon dioxide ( CO ) which are pushing up the global temperature . |
| 13 | The Sunderland 76ers , who are surging up the Carlsberg League table , almost came a cropper at the Granby Halls . |
| 14 | After all , British taxpayers are picking up the £60 million bill and we ought to be told a lot more about why it happened and why so much damage was caused . |
| 15 | I despise the stupidity of those painters who defended the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ to its new air-conditioned penthouse because , in setting such a precedent , they are passing up the opportunity of bequeathing their own works to the Prado . |
| 16 | We 're building up the crockery . |
| 17 | Horse it up well and proper when you 're gathering up the damned folk . |
| 18 | When you 're drawing up the timetable right at the beginning there is no reason why you can not fix your planning meeting dates , and stick pretty closely to them . |
| 19 | They 're , I tell you where they are it 's that row just as you 're climbing up the Daisy Hill , before you get to the |
| 20 | Yes , very good , we 're climbing up the league now , week by week . |
| 21 | As for the Multiple sclerosis sufferers at Didcot ; they believe there 's enough evidence to give credibility to their treatment , so they 're keeping up the pressure both inside and outside the chamber . |
| 22 | Lisabeth and Fenella took the left one ( ‘ Fenella , you 're steaming up the glass ! ’ ) and I took the right . |
| 23 | Better take it up — you do n't want to trip on it when you 're walking up the aisle . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Next thing they 're walking up the aisle . |
| 25 | LIE BACK AND THINK OF … well , certainly not England when you 're soaking up the sun in St Tropez . |
| 26 | Cos you 're filling up the weeder bin and I want well anyway , we we 've got to get sorted out compost for it . |
| 27 | When you c when you 're going up the hills , they 're long gradients , you 're not really aware of them . |
| 28 | You do n't , you got ta , you got ta past there and say go past there and say you 're going up the next time |
| 29 | but we thought well we 're going up the grave and it 's not exactly out the way so we thought we 'd pop in . |
| 30 | Well you 're heading up the A one are n't you ? |