Example sentences of "[is] [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jordan is catching up with the Western world . |
| 2 | Time is catching up with the baldly-going heroes . |
| 3 | From the blurred picture you can see the vital point when the clubhead is catching up with the hands . |
| 4 | These diseases are common in areas er where an out pouring of water from the individual is squared up with a ou , out pouring of people into the water , then you can appreciate that that transmission is very er , readily promoted under those circumstances . |
| 5 | Lawrence was fuming after Barnsley beat Boro 1–0 on Monday , and a season that promised so much is shaping up for a disastrous finale . |
| 6 | He could have destroyed Tottenham except for their world class goalie who is shaping up for a good World Cup eh Halvard ? |
| 7 | But in the Arctic , summer is just past its peak , with the pack ice as far north as it is likely to be , although in a month the first skin of new ice will tinkle and shimmer as it is broken up by the morning breeze . |
| 8 | Your dressing-gown 's hanging up behind the door ! |
| 9 | And er I always remember the lawyer who was acting on behalf of the union er said to these blacklegs , How would it be possible for you to see it though your window who was throwing the bricks seeing that the windows are so black and filthy you ca n't see the curtains that 's hanging up from the outside ? |
| 10 | The final 20 minutes is filled up with a song in three parts ( Rule Two : All songs in three parts are shit , too ) called ‘ Everything Under The Sun ’ , which attempts to be like ‘ Abbey Road ’ , ‘ Tommy ’ , and ‘ Dark Side Of The Moon ’ all at the same time and instead sounds like the worst moments of 10CC , REO Speedwagon and every other would-be epic turd factory band of the 1970s . |
| 11 | Mrs Strange used to be at the piano when Seven Towers sang and now that she is stepping up to the rostrum , Kathryn , daughter of bass singer and choir secretary Jack Clarke , is replacing her . |
| 12 | Nathan is propped up against a rucsac with a cup , plate and two glazed eyes . |
| 13 | The stage is tilted and is propped up by the coffins of Inquisition victims . |
| 14 | and the pelmet is propped up by the bookcase . |
| 15 | Jamie is propped up in a neatly made bed on which lie two discarded magazines of which he might have read the covers . |
| 16 | This bloke is propped up in the corner of the cab , and blood all over the place . |
| 17 | But an enormous backlog of untaxed cases of wine is building up in the producers ' warehouses . |
| 18 | The undeniable fact is that chlorine is building up in the atmosphere much faster than it can be coped with . |
| 19 | There is always a danger of war when you have a face to face confrontation that is building up in the Gulf at the moment . |
| 20 | BELFAST is limbering up for the big international fitness challenge . |
| 21 | Kylie 's tucked up in the back seat , her mum 's alongside , and she 's ready to complete the last day 's shooting on the £10 million film The Delinquents . |
| 22 | See if my husband wants a hand with these bits of wood he 's plonking up against the wall ! |
| 23 | We see how he 's shaping up to the ‘ new age ’ ahead , and offer some thoughts of our own . |
| 24 | So Steve took on the singer 's mantle , but how does he think he 's shaping up as a guitarist/vocalist ? |
| 25 | BARCLAYS , the biggest plastic card issuer , is gearing up for a blitz on card fraud in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 26 | Comedienne Marti Caine , star presenter of BBC1 's Joker in the Pack is gearing up for a hair-raising performance as the evil panto Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . |
| 27 | The sportscar firm is gearing up for a multi-million pound windfall by having replicas of the dream machine on sale in the next few weeks for at least £5,000 apiece . |
| 28 | Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson has left the world of track and field and is gearing up for a new career in motor racing . |
| 29 | THE NORTH-EAST is gearing up for a bumper celebration of European arts and entertainment . |
| 30 | Buckinghamshire speedway ace Simon Wigg is gearing up for the new season with a new club … he 's signed up for Coventr |