Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 As for Dieter Sims , I do n't know much about him except that he 's been building up the East German unit under Husband 's wing .
2 The Sunderland 76ers , who are surging up the Carlsberg League table , almost came a cropper at the Granby Halls .
3 They 're , I tell you where they are it 's that row just as you 're climbing up the Daisy Hill , before you get to the
4 There 's the nucleus of a very good side here , the young lads have been brought up the Lyall way . ’
5 I 'm picking up the PR material in a couple of weeks .
6 I do n't know much about most things , but I do know whether people will be going up the Alps or not . ’
7 Yeah but it must be coming up the Daisy Hill .
8 From Hobart to Cape Town and then in May he should be sailing up the Solent .
9 One tempting remedy would be to speed up the SFO 's act .
10 It is believed that the great bluestones of which Stonehenge is constructed were floated up the Wiltshire Avon .
11 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 .
12 So the war came at last , at exactly 6.35:24 pm on January 16 , 1991 , when Peter Jennings interrupted a canned piece to announce that explosions and flashes were breaking up the Baghdad night .
13 The injured man 's canoe was rescued by a speedboat after being swept up the Maisemore channel of the river and was hauled undamaged up the 15 ft high bank .
14 Her new brief is to build up the NCB 's department .
15 The other day , one lunchtime in fact , I was walking up the Farringdon Road .
16 Between 1800 and 1850 , however , a hard soapy-looking yellow brick was pouring up the Thames from Suffolk , and most of the new Middlesex churches were built of it .
17 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 .
18 On the same day , the mascaret , a river-bore which had been known to reach as far as Paris , was sweeping up the Seine .
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