Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Stars are queueing up for treatment at Holby Hospital — the setting for the controversial BBC series Casualty . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | The military style great coat , which we featured a couple of weeks ago , is probably THE single item fashion victims are queueing up for . |
| 5 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team . |
| 10 | 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 ’ ! |
| 11 | Two cars are drawing up outside Number 17 and quite a lot of people are going in the front door . |
| 12 | While I am tucked up by my warm fire being waited on hand and foot , you will be out in your cars touring the streets with nowhere to go , wishing in vain for a lovely girl to console you and end your loneliness . |
| 13 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 14 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 15 | ALL major social security benefits are to go up by 3.6 per cent in line with inflation from next April . |
| 16 | Electricity charges are to go up by at least 5.8 per cent from April 1st . |
| 17 | That there 's more to Normski than his manic public persona is obvious here , with the music playing , and the beaming photos of himself and Janet Street-Porter that are propped up through the house . |
| 18 | Toilet seats are propped up against the wall , in the unlikely event that someone might want to buy them in a country where hygiene is pathological . |
| 19 | Women take baskets which are filled up with coals according to their strength , & sometimes 2 men had to lift it onto their backs . |
| 20 | Homes with large impersonal reception areas are better for orientation if they are broken up into smaller areas divided from each other . |
| 21 | Inside the mass spectrometer , the beam can be directed towards a target where the ions are broken up into their constituent parts , whose individual masses are also measured . |
| 22 | Instead of one side doing all their batting in one go and setting a target for the other side to beat , baseball 's innings are broken up into bits , with each side batting in turn until nine innings have been completed . |
| 23 | Once there , they are broken up by ultraviolet radiation , releasing chlorine atoms which destroy ozone , CFCs are also an important greenhouse gas ( see above ) . |
| 24 | Today most of these assemblages are broken up by human activity but , for example , on the great plains of Serengeti in East Africa the relationships between seasonal vegetation , nomadic herbivores , and dependent beasts of prey can still be discerned and studied in detail . |
| 25 | Societies disintegrate from within more frequently than they are broken up by external pressures . |
| 26 | The recessed planes are used in places , but more often they are broken up by bold three-quarterings and massings which give a quite different sense of the third dimension . |
| 27 | So nothing at Barnsley House is too grand … and the broader vistas are broken up by judicious planting of trees and shrubs.As for the flower borders … they owe more to the Victorian cottage than to the stately home : |
| 28 | They are sucking up to you because they never grew up , and they never grew up because ( if men ) they are ashamed that they are not like me or ( if women ) have never been admitted into full womanhood by being slathered with Noxzema Regular Protective Shave Formula and roped to a groyne . |
| 29 | Most of your belongings are stacked up in the hall and the bedroom . |
| 30 | Now , however medieval my proclivities , my bills are bang up to date , so I waved a sheaf of payment slips at the ghosts of the carvers and they vanished . |