Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [prep] [pos pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is gearing up for its second consecutive presidential election in November , with candidates ranging from far right to soft left , and front-runners representing the centre . |
| 2 | GEARING up for their 25th anniversary , the British Aviation Preservation Council staged its 98th quarterly conference at the Yorkshire Air Museum ( YAM ) , Elvington , on November 2 . |
| 3 | Shilton , who is himself injured , has just 14 full-time professionals to choose from for the visit of Hartlepool after losing Just when Shilton thought things were looking up for his Second Division side before the 3-2 FA Cup win over Peterborough , he lost striker Paul Boardman with a foot injury and on-loan defender Richard Dryden with a groin injury . |
| 4 | THE Marquess of Blandford was today waking up to his first full day in London 's Pentonville Prison , facing all but nine hours of it ‘ banged up ’ . |
| 5 | She had stayed at work up to the proper time to get the full benefits and she had felt important enough , leaving to have a baby , for the loneliness to be kept at bay for the time leading up to her last day . |
| 6 | For the six months leading up to my 40th birthday last April , I felt decidedly morbid . |
| 7 | The little reporter realized suddenly that she had a real story for her editor and went pale with fear as she remembered that lady 's ruthless slashing up of her last offering , the report of an insignificant wedding . |
| 8 | Now he 's facing up to his first week without work in 36 years |
| 9 | Dickens ' timeless story , now coming up to its 146th Christmas , has been adapted with affection by David Holman and directed with dash by Gwenda Hughes . |
| 10 | Well that would certainly be my favourite , we we 'll be coming up to our hundredth anniversary are n't we fairly soon ? |
| 11 | Dad had been improving daily — he was eating well , in good spirits and coming up to his eightieth birthday . |
| 12 | He was coming up to his twenty-seventh birthday and his face had already acquired some of the lived-in look that became one of his characteristics later in his career . |
| 13 | Mozart was then coming up to his eighteenth birthday , but already a mature master , and No 29 is both a great symphony and an enchantingly beautiful one . |
| 14 | No , you 're just coming up to your first round . |
| 15 | I was going to ask Jenette anyway , as it was coming up to my 40th birthday . ’ |
| 16 | So it 's an ongoing process that the first medical pra or some medical practice booklets are just coming up for their second resale . |
| 17 | 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 . |