Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [v-ing] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 2 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 3 | Alcoholic Geoffrey Frederick Gregory was drinking up to 12 pints a day back in 1979 . |
| 4 | United were wobbling ; Hoddle was winding up for a big finish . |
| 5 | Philpott was sitting up in bed , his face hidden behind a copy of the New York Times . |
| 6 | ‘ Friday was coming up to Valentine 's Day and we were really busy . |
| 7 | The lights went down further , and I guessed Kruger was working up to the big climax , whatever that was . |
| 8 | The Youngs were standing up in the dining room , ready to go to bed . |
| 9 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 10 | Selina was sitting up in bed when I went through with my drink . |
| 11 | When he was not ducking and weaving through the cedar brush with this curious hat on his head , Gould was sitting up at night on the Appletree Flats waiting to ambush a tawny-shouldered podargus or crouching next to a hole in the ground close to Stephen 's garden gate waiting for the appearance of an unfamiliar little mouse . |
| 12 | David Attenborough was crawling up behind two copulating lions . |
| 13 | Miss Florence was nodding up to her , saying now in a whisper , ‘ Wait till you see what we 've got to show you . ’ |
| 14 | Hasan was sitting up at the table , eating a large slice of toast . |
| 15 | Unfortunately this did not resolve the problem and in January 1991 , when W. was coming up towards her fifteenth birthday , it was necessary to resort to in-patient treatment . |
| 16 | Late in the night , towards moonset , Hazel was looking up from a cut where they were crouching to a little bank above . |
| 17 | November was living up to its reputation . |
| 18 | Elaine was looking up at him , her face wide with laughter now , and he , looking down at her , said , ‘ Yes , Elaine , I know what I am : one of God 's idiots . ’ |
| 19 | Shelley was sitting up in bed , her arms round her knees . |
| 20 | It seems that Meg was washing up in the pantry yesterday when Mr Swinton came in from the shore as is his custom in the afternoons , and you were with him ! |
| 21 | But Seb was struggling up from the table . |
| 22 | Jed was coming up to five years old , very bright but also very quiet … so quiet that she worried sometimes , wondering if there were things wrong that he was n't telling her . |
| 23 | Sara was looking up at him as he said something , then she gave a long , shrill laugh , showing her perfect white teeth . |
| 24 | Mr Munby was summing up on day two of a historic test case that will decide the fate of Tony , who has been in a coma for three and a half years . |
| 25 | Mr Dyson was stocking up with sacks of flour and sugar and boxes of dried fruit , and the shelves high on the walls of the shop carried forty-eight pound jars of jam and mincemeat . |
| 26 | At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school . |
| 27 | Gilbert and Frye were standing up against the glass panes of the reception area , staring out into the storm-ravaged night . |
| 28 | there 's just five days to go to the start of the new football season … it 's the big kick-off this Saturday … and both Swindon and Oxford were warming up at the weekend |
| 29 | there 's just five days to go to the start of the new football season … it 's the big kick-off this Saturday … and both Swindon and Oxford were warming up at the weekend |
| 30 | Rain saw in that glance all the confirmation she needed that the Josephs were covering up for their friend . |