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

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1 I can see that you 'll soon be picking up the reins .
2 What you 'll find , you 'll find in here that it 'll just be picking up the budgies mainly .
3 MOST self-respecting museum directors will now be counting up the takings from the holiday season .
4 Of course it was just possible that something had delayed them ; they might even now be hurrying up the steep incline to the station .
5 See you might even be starting up the classes .
6 And , in true dramatic irony , the most apt piece of rhetoric comes from Rita who could well be summing up the everlasting appeal of the Russell classic as she tries to tempt Frank out to an evening at the local theatre :
7 A better solution may well be to pick up the idea of rotating the audit partner every five to 10 years .
8 It was a common experience for me to fall in love with love and then be led up the garden path , only to be rejected and mocked .
9 Could he once again be barking up the wrong tree ?
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