Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were weighing up the value of the frame |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Only a few weeks after returning from playing with polar bears in Spitsbergen , I was soaking up the sun in the Seychelles . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
| 8 | The other day , one lunchtime in fact , I was walking up the Farringdon Road . |
| 9 | No , I was walking up the ramps and it was ripped out of my hand actually . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Suddenly I was climbing up the long ladder of the North pier , the rucksack being roped afterwards . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Her hand was loosening his tie , his was sliding up the tingling curve of her thigh . |
| 16 | Well we did take some er legal advice on it and we were told that it was not illegal , erm I mean we think it 's highly immoral erm , but we were told it was not illegal , because they did not actually use the er the redundancy money did not come out of the fund , only this enhanced pension etcetera which was using up the , the surplus and we were told |
| 17 | He said he would look into a dispute which was holding up the release of Brussels cash to help build some factories on the site of the old Darlington forge . |
| 18 | From the vibration on the rope it felt like somebody was jumaring up the 300 tiring feet back into sunshine — some prussik ! |
| 19 | By the time he died there were no animals left in the yard , nor land to call his own , for it had been sold to the building men , who were throwing up The Courts in order to house the rabble from starving Ireland and those flooding in from all the villages from miles around , all in the hope of being set on and blankets and shawls , everything that would go to cover a human being . |
| 20 | Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies , but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized , not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat , but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations . |
| 21 | Propelled forward by the shrieking aunts , who were bringing up the rear , they stumbled in , falling over the pots and pans and bumping into the dangling kettles , dropping their sacks and shouting and generally making the most satisfactory uproar imaginable . |
| 22 | Erm I was n't , I did n't know what you were trying to get at when you were bringing up the miles per annum that he was doing , I can understand the flying side of it but driving in the car , yes you need to know that he 's doing a lot of miles and that there 's , you know , the there 's the potential danger and everything there but I did n't understand why you need his specific miles per annum . |
| 23 | ‘ You were holding up the kiosk when I got off the train , were n't you ? ’ |
| 24 | When , when you were working up the shop up the back erm where , where were you getting your , your su supplies from , I mean like , were you , were you buying castings , did you need to buy |
| 25 | ‘ Suppose you suddenly had that feeling — tawdry — while you were walking up the aisle with George Beador . |
| 26 | Well when you were cutting up the meat when you , in the shop and things like that , did you wear any special clothes for that ? |
| 27 | He looked unbelieving and said , ‘ But surely you remember when we were going down the eighth , you were coming up the ninth , and I waved and your wife waved back , and then you waved . ’ |
| 28 | She had a computer actually on the it was on the side of a surveying instrument , so she was probably working out how far down she 'd actually dug by looking through the sights and reading the numbers and then she was entering up the numbers on the computer . |
| 29 | Then one evening as she was tidying up the room he said as quietly as if he were taking rifle aim , ‘ There 's no need for you to go turning the whole place upside down . |
| 30 | She was picking up the knack . |