Example sentences of "[prep] be [v-ing] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " To be bossing up the school . |
| 2 | Er , let's , they are , seem to be setting up the s the administrative structures for regional government , without any democratic regional government taking part in the process . |
| 3 | But , by now , he would have had to be moving up the ladder , getting experience of command . |
| 4 | Socialist Worker appeared to be soaking up the potential trade union readership , while the audience of students in revolt could dwindle — although with the formation of the Revolutionary Socialists Student Federation there were hopes that the ‘ new vanguard ’ might survive to detonate the proletarian uprising . |
| 5 | This time he seems to be picking up the signals of some approaching hostility towards him . |
| 6 | This is followed by pushing the arms above the head , so that the cross breaks and the student appears to be holding up the ceiling . |
| 7 | This evening seems to be going up the spout . |
| 8 | But if they were supposed to be keeping up the fiction about being happily married — a second honeymoon , indeed ! — then it was going to look a bit odd , if not downright peculiar , if he did n't spend his nights here in the cottage . |
| 9 | then it went a bit further and stop , and then we used to be walking up the , but that were it , half a crown |