Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norway 's most eloquent campaigner against the Community is Anne Enger Lahnstein , leader of the Centre Party , which , like the anti-EC Socialist Left Party , is picking up support at the expense of Labour , which forms the minority government . |
| 2 | More recently , they have been supplemented by the galium arsenide laser instrument with opto-electrical linkage for picking up conversation at a distance from the vibrations in window panes . |
| 3 | So to find out how much you pay for , how much actual energy has been used up , you think it , again going back to the water , if we have a big tank full of water and we 're using it up , this time in terms of power , erm if we have something that 's using up water at the rate of say six gallons a minute and someone 's going to charge you for your water . |
| 4 | There 's a theatre marketing which is closing it , well , sort of shutting up shop at the end of the month , maybe |
| 5 | It 's a perpetual patching up job at the moment |
| 6 | I recommend taking up position at — ‘ |
| 7 | Would it , he was thinking , be like the ending of Forster 's as yet unpublished Maurice , a somewhat tame homo novel of which he was to say , commenting on the male lovers setting up house at the end , ‘ I give it three weeks ? ’ |
| 8 | Shoemender Brian Webb is setting up shop at Preston Park Museum , Eaglescliffe , for the day , to demonstrate the traditional and fast dying out craft of cobbling . |
| 9 | Not that anyone was shooting up heroin at their desks or anything , but the glazed eyes of some of the dishevelled staff suggested that they were well acquainted with the teachings of Robert Nesta Marley and perhaps worse . |