Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [verb] up [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The birds are marking up that window there ! |
| 2 | Pickers are turning up all the time — this lady expects to be paid about five pounds for her blossoms . |
| 3 | And Northamptonshire 's environmental health officers are backing up that message . |
| 4 | Although things are looking up this year , operating profits in 1990 fell to $201.3m compared with $266.1m in the previous year . |
| 5 | As the corporations were wound up some of the houses passed into private ownership . |
| 6 | In the end an agreement on St Valentine 's Day 1979 was cobbled together of 9 per cent plus an extra £1 a week , but the stakes were going up all the time . |
| 7 | The report reveals that more than a third of all regular smokers will be killed by their habit and whilst men are giving up more women are smoking . |
| 8 | erm Fields were ploughed up that really never should be ploughed up . |
| 9 | The children were followed up some four years later at secondary schools so that the possibility could be considered that such differences were attributable to initial differences in their ability and adjustment rather than being caused by the schools ( Rutter et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 10 | Oh no her sister and all her mates are coming up this weekend . |