Example sentences of "[pron] were [v-ing] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were weighing up the value of the frame |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ You were holding up the kiosk when I got off the train , were n't you ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | ‘ Suppose you suddenly had that feeling — tawdry — while you were walking up the aisle with George Beador . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | He 'd whistle and all the horses would run over to us ; and there we were surrounded by these great horses , and we were holding up the babies to them ! |
| 12 | Erm when we were picking up the trunk off erm Uncle Alan who 's on on the beginning of the fishing |
| 13 | She has been a couple of times but er when we were bringing up the family course she could n't reasonably go with me every week and er , but she had used to be er a good supporter when she was a girl , she used to go with her father in those days my son 's been with me , cos I took him las well he took me last night with his wife I went in their car . |
| 14 | And as I said , I spoke to the supervisor , switchboard supervisor , Di Combes , when we were setting up the course , and asked her what sort of things she would like to put across at a course like this which would make the switchboard 's job easier . |
| 15 | Below the nesting area the slopes were rich with vegetation , enriched by bird-droppings , and we were climbing up the slope when we became aware that a polar bear with a big cub was ‘ grazing ’ on the slope . |
| 16 | When a girl whom I knew only as Meriel remarked , as we were washing up the cocoa-cups , that she was ‘ brought up in a bog ’ , and I commented naïvely that she had no trace of Irish accent , the unassuming daughter of the Earl of Meath merely smiled . |
| 17 | Then , just as we were tying up the canoe , came the first heavy spats of rain on the leaves and with a roll of thunder the heavens opened . |
| 18 | They were packing up the stalls when we left , ’ said Ianthe . |
| 19 | Between them they were picking up the power line , the hoses for oxygen and wastes . |
| 20 | There was a van by the door and they were loading up the files , the contracts , documents , everything ; ’ |
| 21 | Most watches become false alarms ; nevertheless , they were buttoning up the collection and making sure that every completed aircraft was hangared . |
| 22 | Conservationists criticized the Spanish authorities for failing to take sufficient measures to rescue oiled seabirds , and suggested that they were covering up the extent of the damage . |
| 23 | They were driving up the Harrow Road and had just passed the complex of St Mary 's Hospital when the campanile of St Matthew 's came suddenly into view on their left . |
| 24 | In a moment the two of them were running up the wide curved stairs . |
| 25 | So either you say there 's no general will or there is something like a general will , but it is not easily recognizable and for either reason you would want to be much more tolerant of the role minorities , either as a way of getting to the truth , or erm as a way of as it were making up the truth as you 're going along . |