Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its first job should be to draw up the Institute 's environment charter . |
| 2 | From Hobart to Cape Town and then in May he should be sailing up the Solent . |
| 3 | Yeah but it must be coming up the Daisy Hill . |
| 4 | Instead , I 'll be taking up the ideas of Mr. Peter A. Fletcher and others for some more modern rock'n'roll and country licks . |
| 5 | But an MP says he 'll be taking up the case , and demanding it go back to the courts for a stiffer sentence . |
| 6 | He 'll be breaking up the twentieth and how long you on holiday , fortnight ? |
| 7 | sort of , to put it , I 'm gon na be is that as from tomorrow we will have identified what erm desking and so on will be moved during the reorganization erm , and obviously any of the desking that is n't gon na be moved until the organization , we 'll be tidying up the cables . |
| 8 | ‘ If we do n't do something extremely soon , ’ said Caspar , who was watching the giants furtively , ‘ they 'll be heating up the squares any minute . ’ |
| 9 | Mind you , I mean there 's no point they 'll be looking up the first word of each of these |
| 10 | ‘ They 'll be bringing up the squares at any minute . |
| 11 | I reckon those people 'll be going up the wrong way . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I get some expenses ; I 'll be making up the difference . ’ |
| 13 | We 'll be making up the lost hours tonight and on Monday . |
| 14 | It could be traced up the boulder strewn fellside easterly of the beetling Kernal Crag , along and over Thriddle Scar ( in which were ancient workings but little other than trials ) across ground with pits , trials and trenches , made by early miners along its strike , to pass below the northern margin of Levers Water . |
| 15 | You could be passing up the chance to obtain the most loving , loyal friend anyone could wish for . |
| 16 | It 's obviously never occurred to her she could be barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 17 | You could be opening up the way to new prosperity . |
| 18 | ‘ The agent was forever calling him , wanting to know if , this time , you 'd be taking up the ticket . |
| 19 | He 's concerned that banking attitudes may be holding up the recovery . |
| 20 | But R-134a has one drawback compared to propane and butane — it adds to the so-called greenhouse effect of pollution which may be heating up the earth 's climate . |
| 21 | TWO heartbroken families may be bringing up the wrong babies . |
| 22 | It is better than tripods for a really wet crop since the crop may be put up the day it is cut even in rainy weather . |
| 23 | IT MAY be creeping up the ratings but as far as Britain 's teenagers are concerned , Eldorado is the pits . |
| 24 | If your parcel is lost or damaged , compensation may be paid up the specified limit according to the fee paid . |
| 25 | The BSDI contingents hopeful that Novell Inc will quash the suit once it takes USL over may be barking up the wrong tree . |
| 26 | They can often be blind to the fact that the good child may be stirring up the problem and letting the naughty one get the blame . |
| 27 | Alternatively , they may be lifted up the backstay by shockcord to keep them out of the way . |
| 28 | He knew that the howling wind would be whipping up the downfall into deep drifts on the exposed high moor . |
| 29 | We noted earlier that the immediate effect of increased investment in investment trusts would be to push up the price of their shares without resulting in any extra flow of funds from savers to borrowers . |
| 30 | However , I received the impression that the society was more interested in a scheme for a new RUC complaints procedure and that it was not anticipated that it would be taking up the Black affair in a major way . |