Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The double volume , Ogwen & Carneddau , will hopefully be in the shops by Easter ; Llanberis , at the time of writing , has much of the text complete , thanks to Iwan Arfon Jones , and Paul Williams has been rounding up all the loose ends . |
| 2 | The Agnes has been picking up various cargoes from North African and some West African ports . |
| 3 | Since February he has been snapping up American commercial property . |
| 4 | Developed from the Laser 28 , the RF290 has been notching up some impressive results , winning at least three class 1sts in the Hamble Winter Series . |
| 5 | Centre-half Ian Marshall , who has been playing up front since the start of last month , is out for three weeks after breaking a finger and Neil McDonald is likely to miss the Middlesbrough game with hamstring trouble . |
| 6 | Erm the other thing I 'd like you to do is adding up all all the numbers that make ten . |
| 7 | People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps . |
| 8 | Over the past week you have been walking away a minimum of 300 calories a day during your walk , and your increased metabolic rate will have been burning up another few hundred calories when you have finished walking . |
| 9 | For many years our shore-based rummage crews had been picking up increasing quantities of drugs from routine searches of merchant vessels within the ports , but often these smuggling attempts were " one off " jobs by crew members . |
| 10 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 11 | But it was more than a shock when Julian admitted to Peter that he had been running up huge debts with their bank . |
| 12 | It had been shortly before the war and Liza had been coming up thirteen . |
| 13 | When she had finished , her whole body throbbed , ached , was raw , as if she had been cutting up small pieces of herself . |
| 14 | Wallace , who had been playing up front with McClair to no devastating effect , moved out to his usual position on the left wing , with similar results . |
| 15 | We 've been picking up some bad vibes on that guy . |
| 16 | I 've been getting up three times . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been waking up all night every night covered in sweat , just the whole bed dripping in it . |
| 18 | Oceans have been picking up soluble materials ( notably sodium chloride — salt ) from the land , for millions of years . |
| 19 | The vultures have been buying up other bonds likely to be similarly treated . |
| 20 | Previously , only trade in new horn was banned but , with a single horn fetching as much as £30,000 , Chinese dealers have been buying up big game trophies for export to the Far East . |
| 21 | Welcome back : For hundreds of years people with more money than sense have been putting up strange buildings on their land that seem to have no point whatsoever . |
| 22 | Although some have done this display before , the tension 's been building up all week . |
| 23 | Tension 's been building up all week . |
| 24 | Who 's been tearing up all the newspaper that the wet wellies were on ? |