Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A helpful northerly breeze was filling the sails , so that they were building up gentle speed across the waters of the bay . |
| 2 | Even whilst the plague was raging , the King and parliament , who had fled to Oxford to escape , were drawing up new legislation to persecute the Nonconformists . |
| 3 | Foreign Affairs Minister Theo Ben Gurirab , addressing on April 30 the UN General Assembly special session on economic co-operation [ see p. 37476 ] , said that Namibia was drawing up foreign investment legislation to provide the guarantees which " international investors normally expect " , with special incentives for projects promoting investment and training . |
| 4 | Michael was walking up High Row with his brother David when he was attacked . |
| 5 | In addition to the Revolutionary Armed Forces , Castro was sufficiently confident of support by late 1959 to organise the formation of popular militias , and was stirring up patriotic fervour by repeated assertions of the imminence of US military action against Cuba . |