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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Outside , on the sun-soaked Common , they were piling up French loaves and bottles of Beaujolais . |
| 10 | Yesterday around 40 staff were tying up loose ends for all three main parties . |
| 11 | Only a few miles away other actors in the macabre drama surrounding Lady Eleanor 's death were taking up new roles and stances . |
| 12 | To begin with we were nervous but by the end we were making up silly situations and if we made mistakes everyone laughed . ’ |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Michael was walking up High Row with his brother David when he was attacked . |
| 16 | He added that at CCCs fourth quarter closing , it was signing up new licensees at a 30% higher rate than anticipated . |
| 17 | Yet here she was opening up old wounds and it was harder to forgive that . |
| 18 | You know it seemed to be that we had a working rule that had functioned reasonably well over the years and all of a sudden he was tearing up various paragraphs that did n't suit him , and altering bits you know and changing them round just to suit the company , and all to our disadvantage . |
| 19 | Nona stared at the grey river where the wind was picking up little waves and throwing them against the walls of the river walk . |
| 20 | Zambia ordered Nathan , who was looking up perplexed . |
| 21 | She 'd known he was growing up peculiar — he did badly at school , and had no friends — but she 'd begun to see , from living in the same house as him again , how different he was from other kids . |
| 22 | In addition to the Revolutionary Armed Forces , Castro was sufficiently confident of support by late 1959 to organise the formation of popular militias , and was stirring up patriotic fervour by repeated assertions of the imminence of US military action against Cuba . |
| 23 | All the time he was running up huge bills and wiping out systems all over the world . ’ |
| 24 | Crawford returned to repertory work to be there for the first three months , appearing alongside stars such as Leo McKern , who had turned down two films and offers from the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company to go to Nottingham , and classical actor John Neville , who had just starred in Alfie on the London stage and was giving up 200-a-week West End rates for the 20 to 50 Playhouse level . |
| 25 | The Department of Trade and Industry announced that it was setting up working groups to examine the scope for changing some of the most complex areas of company law . |