Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] up [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 3 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 4 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 5 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 6 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 7 | Daily passenger figures are averaging 100 but weekends are looking up with more than double that figure each afternoon . |
| 8 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |
| 9 | And we went up there , oh dear , driving up there you 're going up on this little tiny when you 've got a big car . |
| 10 | Well there 's a couple of things I will , I 'll , I 'll add then before we 're shutting up about this . |
| 11 | And erm the erm your view is completely blocked altogether when you 're coming up to that roundabout , as you know they come up from erm Southfield Road and Divinity Road which comes up on to that roundabout , and erm I think it 's very very dangerous . |
| 12 | ‘ But I ca n't see why you 're putting up with such nonsense . |
| 13 | We 're setting up in another hangar and hope to be back in business soon . |
| 14 | and he said you know , he said they have n't been turning up at that chapel for them , when they 've preaching but you did n't crack on they knew anything about that but he just sort of said said no you know remain non-committal . |
| 15 | What he 'd been leading up to all week ? |
| 16 | They had clearly been leading up to this all week . |
| 17 | ‘ Everyone , including the British Government , has been waking up to this horrific plight too late . |
| 18 | The Battersea Congress of the Party , to which this complaint was later addressed , gave official backing to a scheme which had been projected for some time , a Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition to unite the various unofficial movements which had been growing up in many important unions . |
| 19 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
| 20 | The Empire is crumbling into civil war , Daemons are popping up on all sides , and who 's to say that the Great Enchanter does n't have a hand in it somewhere ? |
| 21 | Yes Karen all right I 'm building up to that for goodness sake . |
| 22 | ‘ No , ’ Ashley said , beginning to feel flustered by what seemed to be shaping up into another interrogation . |
| 23 | Without pilots gaining experience at the lowest level , we will be shaping up for another chronic pilots shortage in a few years ' time . |
| 24 | In about ten minutes time we 'll be catching up with all the local football league results . |
| 25 | The biggest and most competitive game of the day will be up at Eaton Park , where Ballymena take on Instonians , two teams who will be squaring up to each other in the AIL Division Two next season . |
| 26 | And the chances are that Best will be teaming up with another hero of the game , Rodney Marsh , for a double act that could rival the popular Saint and Greavsie . |
| 27 | When he opened the door and saw who 'd come for him he did n't expect to be waking up at all . |
| 28 | I 'm going up to that there mass of spaghetti , and I 'm going to make sure . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I presume I 'll be doubling up on both parts , ’ O'Hara said . |
| 30 | AS world leaders journey to Rio for the Earth Summit meeting , a gathering at Middlesbrough 's St Mary 's Centre will be facing up to some of the issues confronting world leaders in Brazil . |