Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were tidying up at half past six this morning . |
| 2 | Late afternoon yesterday , my family and I were going up to Dunkil to visit the Bible class who About a dozen deer and one or two stags high on the hill . |
| 3 | And before I could resolve the problem I was struggling up in bed , in the pitch blackness , reaching for the shrilling telephone . |
| 4 | Correctly surmising that theirs was the room with the broken bolt hanging from the door , he entered it just as I was catching up with him . |
| 5 | ‘ One day I was filling up with petrol when a chap stopped to say he was a member of the Ferrari Owners Club and used to have a car like mine , ’ says John . |
| 6 | Bowe said : ‘ I thought he was crazy not to go down in the 10th when I was beating up on him . |
| 7 | ‘ While other children were out playing I was practising up to 30 hours a week after school . |
| 8 | You think I did it on purpose , that I was checking up on you . ’ |
| 9 | Before I landed Brookside I was washing up in a wine bar so the experience obviously came in handy for playing Chrissie . ’ |
| 10 | As I was walking up to his house two young bearded men in jeans and sweaters got out of a car and ran towards me . |
| 11 | ‘ When I was walking up to Keble Road yesterday I saw someone standing at the bus-stop outside St Giles ’ Church , waiting to get up to Summertown . |
| 12 | I did , so I was creeping up like this |
| 13 | ‘ I was waiting up for you . ’ |
| 14 | The scheme certainly helped me right at the beginning when I was starting up as a criminal lawyer . |
| 15 | I was travelling up from the English coast on my way to London to arrange the final leg of my journey home . |
| 16 | Says Brian Bovell of the Posse : ‘ I remember when I was growing up in Tottenham in the Sixties , how my mum and dead dealt with potentially scary , racist situations — they found dignity through humour . |
| 17 | I had my fill of fucking antiques when I was growing up in Pimlico , and in Trenton , New Jersey . |
| 18 | The time I went before that , I got erm , like a frostbitten thumb , because I was going up on the chair lift , and er , I dropped one of my gloves , and it was quite a cold day , so by the time I 'd got to the top , and skied all the way back down , and then down the road going back to try and find me gloves , because I had borrowed them from a friend , |
| 19 | As I was going up to my cell it all hit me — am I ever going to get my daughter back ? |
| 20 | In fact I 'd told a couple of the group — Mr and Mrs Kronquist , I think it was — that I was going up to Summertown . ’ |
| 21 | I was coming up to my eleven hours — we 're not supposed to drive for more than eleven hours — and I went in and there was Charlie Hatton . |
| 22 | But as I was coming up to London to work in more formal circumstances I selected my new skirt , which is somewhat smoother and less worn , together with my new pullover — oh , no , how odd , this is my old pullover — but — ah , now I remember , yes , worn over a cotton shirt — which again is something smooth . |
| 23 | She thought I was coming up with my eye . |
| 24 | They would ask me into their classes to watch them teach ; they gave me time for interviews ; they allowed me into staff meetings and departmental meetings and I at various points in my research I erm attempted to feed back to them some of the material that I was coming up with , and we would have meetings to discuss this and I would erm use those meetings then to refine my ideas . |
| 25 | They asked me into their classes to watch them teach , they gave me time for interviews , they allowed me into staff meetings and departmental meetings and I erm at various points in my research I attempted to feed back to them some of the material I was coming up with , and we would have meetings to discuss this . |
| 26 | I was perking up under the influence of what seemed like half a ton of protein . |
| 27 | ‘ Because he tried it once before , when I was working up in Manchester . |
| 28 | But then I , eventually I tried the building trade again and I joined a firm called er forget , or something like that and I was working up in George Street in , in , in Edinburgh . |
| 29 | And , you know , the sort of things which you can remember , which I can remember , some of the glorious ones , one when I was working up in Lancashire , about this time of year when the , the new May Day Bank Holiday was announced in about nineteen seventy-two or three or something and through five editions of the Lancashire Evening Post was a headline which said ‘ New Pubic Holiday ’ . |
| 30 | At this stage I do n't think he saw what I was leading up to . |