Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [v-ing] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 2 | Benny reddened at the stares , but Nan had left the two admirers and was bounding up to the back row . |
| 3 | Harry had come into the lower doorway at the right time , and was moving up between the tables to take his normal place among the young fellows of knightly family , his peers . |
| 4 | The woman had sunk to the ground to avoid her tormentor , had clasped Sally-Anne around her knees , and was shrieking up at her , ‘ Oh , help me , help me , do . ’ |
| 5 | She was coming along the opposite pavement on foot and was looking up at the buildings as if she were not sure of being in the right street . |
| 6 | But at least she was safe from the man on the ground , who now seemed to be recovering and was looking up at her with intense fury as he rubbed the area just below his ribs . |
| 7 | ‘ In my youth ’ , says Baxter , ‘ I was quickly past my fundamentals and was running up into a multitude of controversies , and greatly delighted with metaphysical and scholastic writings . ’ |
| 8 | Gwendolen had had a distressing day and was making up for it with several glasses of this delightfully spicy lemonade . |
| 9 | But a day had come in the Sixties when he was in one of the elephant houses and was staring up at an elephant as it walked neurotically round and round its tiny area when a sudden memory of some of the places he had been kept in during the war had come to him ; no space , no freedom , no life . |
| 10 | A nerve jiggled at the corner of Meredith 's mouth because she was beginning to piece small bits of information together and was coming up with a heap of worries . |