Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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1 | Yea , though I run down the valleys , I am Towed up the hills . |
2 | I 'm breaking up the band anyway . |
3 | I 'm breaking up the spaghetti cos I hate it in long lengths ! |
4 | You know , I 'm bringing up the child the best I can , she has plenty of love I love her very much ! |
5 | I 'm picking up the PR material in a couple of weeks . |
6 | ‘ I 'm tidying up the last ten years by releasing two compilation albums , ’ he says . |
7 | Every day I do n't manage to catch the same bus home as you do , I 'm fed up the whole evening . |
8 | ‘ I 'm soaking up the wisdom , ’ Oscar replied . |
9 | ‘ I 'm goin' up the market , I 'll walk along wiv yer , ’ Florrie said , straightening the wide lapel of her shabby coat . |
10 | It 's a smart move which leads him out onto a limb of high-flown verbiage , as in the charmingly titled Thinking Voyager 2 Type Things : ‘ I 'm electric with the snap and crackle of creation/ I 'm mixing up the mud with the spit/ So rise up Brendan Behan and like a drunken Lazarus/ Let's traipse the high bronze of the evening sky/ Like crack crazed kings ’ . |
11 | . I 'm going up the fair on er Saturday . |
12 | I 'm going up the garage anyway , alright ? |
13 | Er no we had some larger other income erm I 'm turning up the detail as we speak . |
14 | As a matter of interest , I 'm totting up the sum of his holdings as I go along . |
15 | I were weighing up the value of the frame |
16 | Every Saturday morning , while I was setting up the barrow , Mr Salmon used to disappear off to the Whitechapel synagogue leaving his wife to run the shop . |
17 | ‘ When I was setting up the Fine Chemicals Manufacturing Organization [ FCMO ] in the early '80s , there was no doubt quality was the main way to compete more effectivey and raise performance . |
18 | At one point in 1987 I was bowling up the M6 talking to a colleague in London on my ‘ hands-off ’ Cellnet phone — it had a microphone in front of me on the visor . |
19 | Only a few weeks after returning from playing with polar bears in Spitsbergen , I was soaking up the sun in the Seychelles . |
20 | Except for a small diversion and nibble some bits of lamb when I was cutting up the meat lunchtime , and to try and serving of it . |
21 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
22 | I was an East End boy myself ; I was brought up the hard way . |
23 | The other day , one lunchtime in fact , I was walking up the Farringdon Road . |
24 | No , I was walking up the ramps and it was ripped out of my hand actually . |
25 | Barnes added : ‘ Being on the same pitch as that other bloke Barnes would be a dream because only two years ago I was putting up the nets on Sunday mornings for my hospital team . ’ |
26 | I borrowed fifty P off her the oth , I was going up the school , and I only had four fifty for the I needed fifty P but I did n't have enough change like . |
27 | I believe I had the same two horses in that wagon ; and I was coming up the Bungay road past Mr Charlie Skinner 's , and the yardman let them cows out to water , d'ye see , like they allus do every morning after they had milking done . |
28 | Suddenly I was climbing up the long ladder of the North pier , the rucksack being roped afterwards . |
29 | But I was beading up the Dale , climbing steadily with the engine pulling against the rising ground , then quite suddenly the fog thinned to a shimmering silvery mist and was gone . |
30 | Someone was to hold up the traffic , another to get the guards , but first someone was sent down the side lane towards St Vincent 's Hospital to alert casualty and summon help . |