Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I thought you did well in erm giving yourself credibility by talking about the shares , oh yes you can have two hundred and fifty pounds per month in the shares and they 've done well and I said oh yes they have done well , and I felt good that you were praising me up for being such a clever chap , and so I thought that was all , all jolly good stuff . |
| 2 | Always out for a laugh , I mentioned that his volumes of ‘ free verse ’ were costing me up to $2. per copy , and he promised to send me his next book . |
| 3 | Did n't particularly hate it , I du n no , I mean I had no idea that they were camping anything up from that record . |
| 4 | You were holding it up to the window . ’ |
| 5 | All down the corridor people were propping themselves up against the walls , or lying on the floor singly or in couples . |
| 6 | The poorest families who spent more time at home , like the unemployed , were having anything up to £35 per week from their Social Security Benefits deducted and paid direct to the fuel companies to cover fuel debts . |
| 7 | Whilst Jean was there , the women were spending anything up to twenty-three hours a day locked in their cells . |
| 8 | Those wicked dark eyes of his were lifting her up into another planet . |
| 9 | The DHSS were playing me up over the removal grant , so one of my sons went up to the house to see if there were any letters — everything had been smashed , crocks were smashed and the beds were slashed . |
| 10 | They mentioned that you and Anna walked a hundred miles and that you were following it up with a heavy date . |
| 11 | Then I realised this was unusual for an owl , because in the wild they tend to swallow their prey whole , so I simply stopped holding on to the chick and soon she was gobbling it up in one . |
| 12 | So she had no idea , when her antics were effective , how she was using herself up in her efforts to ward off her disappearance from the world , in her girlish desire to please . |
| 13 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 14 | Hilary was depressed at your long absence ; I was cheering her up with photographs of your sporting exploits , which hang , as you know , in the master bedroom . |
| 15 | As the girl played the woman dilated her nostrils and rose slightly off the piano stool , as if someone was drawing her up by an invisible wire attached to the crown of her head . |
| 16 | Councillor Rosie was appalled that the paper was American , outlining aspects of child abuse , what to look for , and how to confirm suspicions ; it was also nearly ten years old , written by an ‘ expert ’ who had been discredited in his own country , and certainly did n't signify that the council was keeping itself up to date on matters of such importance . |
| 17 | She was confused , one of her friends was picking her up at the studios that afternoon , not M. Apéritif , but a doe-eyed Persian who was — he said — training to be an engineer . |
| 18 | ‘ She was picking them up at random and saying things like , ‘ This boy 's in a wheelchair but that does n't stop him giving me the eye , ’ or , ‘ This is the college stud but he cuts no ice with me . ’ ’ |
| 19 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 20 | The next thing I knew he was pulling me up by my hair . |
| 21 | Hands was pulling himself up among the sails now , the knife between his teeth . |
| 22 | The issue , as far as I can see , and I was told , when I was growing it up in school , about the holocaust and that we must ensure that everybody remembers about the holocaust in Germany , and that it should never ever be allowed to happen again . |
| 23 | He was sending himself up to a degree , but it does n't matter . |
| 24 | And wished he had n't because , two weeks later , Donald was holding him up with a sawn-off shotgun for an hour and a half . |
| 25 | Mike was holding it up for Mr. Rowbotham to see . |
| 26 | It was a full fifteen feet and the offshore wind was holding it up like a crystal tower . |
| 27 | ‘ How did you feel , ’ he said , ‘ when the monkey was holding you up on the roof ? ’ |
| 28 | Now , his security escort was dishing him up to her on a plate . |
| 29 | Now I was looking at the other fella a strong comparison , I was mixing him up with I |
| 30 | I had a lot of hassle cos I was mixing it up with D R DOS . |