Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] up [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confirmation that ministers were drawing up plans for local government and judicial reform was enough to satisfy many . |
| 2 | ‘ They were training up people for the university , teaching me Latin . |
| 3 | One Air Force Day we were putting up stands for a show and he leapt up and did about half a dozen speeches from Henry IV and Henry V . |
| 4 | The Australians were recovering again from the brink of disaster , although a ruthless reprisal raid by Portuguese against the natives who had helped the Japanese was storing up trouble for the future . |
| 5 | I did n't say that , that surrogacy was storing up trouble for the future |
| 6 | She was under no illusions — she knew he could never feel the same way about her , she knew too that she was storing up heartbreak for herself . |
| 7 | Phil toppled from a stepladder as he was putting up decorations for the big day — and a spike went right through him . |
| 8 | J. Chapman , Sledmere Drive , Acklam , Middlesbrough : I was a final year pharmacy student in Sunderland and I was setting up apparatus for a chemistry experiment , when another student came in with the sad news that the King had died . |