Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] up [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 2 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 3 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 4 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Well there 's a couple of things I will , I 'll , I 'll add then before we 're shutting up about this . |
| 7 | They had clearly been leading up to this all week . |
| 8 | ‘ Everyone , including the British Government , has been waking up to this horrific plight too late . |
| 9 | I sit and read and I 'm tightening up like this and I like that to sort of |
| 10 | I believe they are standing up to this tour well . |
| 11 | And erm this one is slowly closing on that one , this one is catching up on this one at quite a rate of knots . |
| 12 | He 's coming up on this . |
| 13 | The latest scientific investigations into how many calories the average Briton is burning up in this modern labour-saving , sedentary age are yielding somewhat depressing indications . |
| 14 | U2 are smashing up against this tradition as much as daft rock developments elsewhere , determined to introduce original music and manner to backward Irish youth . |
| 15 | There was scaffolding up outside this particular one and a pair of rugged , manly types were bolting a large sign into place . |
| 16 | ‘ I was climbing up through this favela ; I should n't even have been there . |
| 17 | I did , so I was creeping up like this |