Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northamptonshire police this afternoon said they were not following up the incident . |
| 2 | We were soon building up the idea of productivity … |
| 3 | We were just picking up the malai national programme . |
| 4 | I never had a chance to see if anyone had been hurt or not because we were already accelerating up the next stretch of road . |
| 5 | ANALYSTS and advisers were yesterday lining up the next series of state asset sales and trying to see how the Government could increase the projected £19 billion over the next three years to reduce borrowing and fund tax cuts . |
| 6 | No doubt they were still digging up the little graveyard . |
| 7 | Johannsen and the DK were still clambering up the long diagonal slope to her left , almost level with her now . |
| 8 | It was all those problems , and a few more , that were now fouling up the North Sea and other parts of Britain . |
| 9 | Today they were simply soaking up the atmosphere and enjoying a tour of the province 's most popular sites , including a shopping trip to Belfast city centre and a visit to the Giant 's Causeway . |
| 10 | The British colonies were steadily filling up the Atlantic seacoast and populating the area fairly densely . |
| 11 | In the sort snow-lit darkness people were systematically sicking up the food which they had saved for so long . |
| 12 | He was already advancing up the truck as Ward slithered down onto the flat surface of it . |
| 13 | I was just dishing up the ravioli and he had n't even had time to take his helmet off when Nutty stormed in , drunk as a fiddler . |
| 14 | It was all too clear Auguste had been out enjoying the pleasures of Broadstairs , one of which was just disappearing up the main staircase , folding up her parasol . |
| 15 | Ashley Booth , the hotel 's general manager , said : ‘ He was just stoking up the fire when it blew back on him and burned one of his hands . ’ |
| 16 | Thornton spelled out how the new technology was rapidly opening up the newspaper scene , and offering enormous cost-cutting possibilities . |
| 17 | But Mr Malik was always bringing up the subject . |
| 18 | I was still gagging up the last few dregs when somebody punched me on the cheek , sending the other side of my head banging against the metal wall of the shelter . |
| 19 | By the time I got to the end of the course , I was still picking up the pieces . |
| 20 | The shadows of the poplar trees had fallen across much of the lawn , but the sun was still lighting up the far corner where the grass sloped up to the summerhouse . |
| 21 | One such scheme involved the purchase of the Daily Express by Max Aitken with party funds , but the party was also propping up the Globe , the Standard , and a wide range of provincial dailies . |
| 22 | Vulcanian eruptions sometimes form the first phases of a longer eruption , when the volcano is ‘ clearing its throat ’ for the real business , and as such , there may be no new magmatic material involved , and all the material that is showered up as ash to form the ‘ cauliflower cloud ’ may be merely old , cold , solid lava which was previously blocking up the throat ; if this is the case , the eruptions are sometimes called ultra-vulcanian . |
| 23 | Almost as though , Shiona thought with a small shudder , she was mentally totting up the value of the contents of the room . |