Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A helpful northerly breeze was filling the sails , so that they were building up gentle speed across the waters of the bay . |
| 2 | Even whilst the plague was raging , the King and parliament , who had fled to Oxford to escape , were drawing up new legislation to persecute the Nonconformists . |
| 3 | Joe walked down the length of the hut , between the beds , where here and there men were sprucing up ready to grab a few hours ’ freedom away from the camp . |
| 4 | First , though , let's recall some of the refreshing nonsense the Land 's End Ltd press release included : ‘ Hard steel pitons were also leaving large unsightly rust stains on the cliff face and , by being chiselled in , were opening up large and damaging cracks that are irreparable by natural means . ’ |
| 5 | Because it was an old house that they were renovating , and it had got so much rot in it and woodworm , and he said he said he said th there they were walking up one minute and the next minute the piano was just going down through the stairs . |
| 6 | In pursuing the campaign for family allowances ( initially intended to provide the mother with a wage as well as allowances for children ) , mainstream feminists of the inter-war years were picking up one of the major demands of labour women 's groups prior to World War I and consciously taking on board social issues of importance to working class women . |
| 7 | I thought that they were cribbing up last night 's French homework but it turns out that they were playing a game called ‘ Ouija ’ . |
| 8 | The boys of both houses , Billy Keith who was now seven and Sandy Mackenzie , five , and his young brother Stuart , or Stu , who was three , were growing up strong and healthy under the sun . |
| 9 | The choir , and all about it , and the church I rather enjoyed because as as I were growing up most of the p people that came were the business people and the people that were conscientious towards that area , St. John 's . |
| 10 | The driving impulse was the fear of the development of a " dangerous class " in the cities where children were growing up ill disciplined and ill exampled by their parents . |
| 11 | In the end an agreement on St Valentine 's Day 1979 was cobbled together of 9 per cent plus an extra £1 a week , but the stakes were going up all the time . |
| 12 | Once , when we were going up one of the main avenues in the city a lump of thawing snow fell from a tree under which we were passing and hit me on the face . |
| 13 | If you drew it on your graph it would be quite steep and it would look as if you were going up ten centimetres for every centimetre you went along which is almost vertical . |
| 14 | It was as though they were marching up great soaring bridges to get on to the screen , where they would enter into the films we had come to see . |
| 15 | Pay-per-view channels were buying up exclusive rights to the really big bouts and this left the regular channels desperate to find some way of increasing the number of championship fights . |
| 16 | Outside , on the sun-soaked Common , they were piling up French loaves and bottles of Beaujolais . |
| 17 | they were mixing up all the time , it 's all antibiotics now and is n't it tablets or |
| 18 | Yesterday around 40 staff were tying up loose ends for all three main parties . |
| 19 | Only a few miles away other actors in the macabre drama surrounding Lady Eleanor 's death were taking up new roles and stances . |
| 20 | It seemed as if all the vitality of France were flowing up this narrow artery . |
| 21 | To begin with we were nervous but by the end we were making up silly situations and if we made mistakes everyone laughed . ’ |
| 22 | It was calculated that the United States was using up eighteen tons of raw material per head of population per year , or ten times as much as the average citizen of the rest of the non-Communist world . |
| 23 | He caught the glint of a smile from Fael-Inis at that , and felt a sudden delight , because the fire was surging up all about them , and Fael-Inis had taken up a stance at the fore of the Chariot , and he was gathering up silken reins between his hands , only the reins were of living colour and shifting light , and there were certainly spells within them as there had certainly been spells in the Chamber of the Looms … |
| 24 | By 1921 indeed frustration with coalition was building up such a head of steam as seriously to threaten its future . |
| 25 | Foreign Affairs Minister Theo Ben Gurirab , addressing on April 30 the UN General Assembly special session on economic co-operation [ see p. 37476 ] , said that Namibia was drawing up foreign investment legislation to provide the guarantees which " international investors normally expect " , with special incentives for projects promoting investment and training . |
| 26 | But they had made her feel restless with their talk and it was in that mood that she 'd let the landlord get close to her by the open landing window as he was bringing up some more beer . |
| 27 | Michael was walking up High Row with his brother David when he was attacked . |
| 28 | He added that at CCCs fourth quarter closing , it was signing up new licensees at a 30% higher rate than anticipated . |
| 29 | Yet here she was opening up old wounds and it was harder to forgive that . |
| 30 | Pammy , then , there 's a picture of her tractor , is there , no I have n't got one here , yes , is that the Alice Charmers , well , do you know the Alice Charmers tractor , the two front wheel close together , it 's got big wheels the long one , two little , well it was a bigger tractor than that but they were closer together Well , she was driving up this steep bank , I think that was how much the , and who knows so steep that only two roads were up near here , she could have gone over , it was terrible , and of course that thing , erm where is it ? |