Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [to-vb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives . |
| 2 | They would be in favour of it if it could be worked out in a practical form : but it did not mean they were going to give up the freedom of the seas . |
| 3 | Tessa could hear him breathing on the threshold outside for several minutes more , as if he were trying to summon up the courage to return and say something . |
| 4 | A gang of youths threw stones and missiles at officers who were trying to break up the display . |
| 5 | It was about six o'clock and Carrie was helping to wash up the tea things when she heard Mr Evans 's bellow of rage . |
| 6 | The murder of Foreign Minister Robert Ouko in February provoked large-scale protests by students claiming that the government was attempting to cover up the circumstances of his death and calling for the resignation of President Moi ; the government responded by banning demonstrations . |
| 7 | I had no doubts that he was going to pick up the package . |
| 8 | I was going to phone up the A T S tyre people just to find out |
| 9 | She was terrified that Brian was going to bring up the word all the baby manuals kept using and which she had come to hate : bonding . |
| 10 | Having come to terms with the failure of her marriage , she was trying to pick up the broken bits of her pride , glue them together , and get on with her life . |
| 11 | The Cheltenham MP was trying to take up the cudgels on behalf of Gloucestershire County Council , who face being charge capped for wanting to spend ten million pounds above the Government 's limit . |
| 12 | During that half-hour coffee break Jeff had told her all about Silvia and about how Guido was trying to break up the romance . |
| 13 | She was trying to chat up the boy who was serving . |
| 14 | Two floors above , Jude heard what she took to be a domestic argument , and not wanting somebody else 's marital strife to sour her fine mood , was crossing to turn up the soul song on the turntable when somebody knocked on the door . |