Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] up the " in BNC.
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1 | We were soon building up the idea of productivity … |
2 | We were just picking up the malai national programme . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | No doubt they were still digging up the little graveyard . |
6 | Johannsen and the DK were still clambering up the long diagonal slope to her left , almost level with her now . |
7 | It was all those problems , and a few more , that were now fouling up the North Sea and other parts of Britain . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | The British colonies were steadily filling up the Atlantic seacoast and populating the area fairly densely . |
10 | In the sort snow-lit darkness people were systematically sicking up the food which they had saved for so long . |
11 | He was already advancing up the truck as Ward slithered down onto the flat surface of it . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . ’ |
15 | Thornton spelled out how the new technology was rapidly opening up the newspaper scene , and offering enormous cost-cutting possibilities . |
16 | But Mr Malik was always bringing up the subject . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | By the time I got to the end of the course , I was still picking up the pieces . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Almost as though , Shiona thought with a small shudder , she was mentally totting up the value of the contents of the room . |