Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] up in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , er , I do n't know so much about knowing when and how so much , cos it I mean who 'd thought prices of houses would then go up as they did , you know , and there 's er , I knew er a young women that was buying a house and these people said oh , oh it 's , we 're not just ready to move yet , we 're not , and during this time Daisy said were rocketing up in price and she could n't afford one after |
| 2 | We knew the rents were going up in Tottenham mews and we could n't find any good , affordable space in town . |
| 3 | Whereas before we were going up in leaps and bounds . |
| 4 | Many of the players were playing up in front of the water but Sam was through the green with a 2-iron . |
| 5 | And before I could resolve the problem I was struggling up in bed , in the pitch blackness , reaching for the shrilling telephone . |
| 6 | Sour milk was hanging up in muslin , to turn into cream cheese . |
| 7 | ‘ Key was hanging up in reception . ’ |
| 8 | The next thing he recalled after that was waking up in hospital and this man with bandaged fingers in the next bed rambling on about a duffle-coat and how he 'd been bitten by a wolf . |
| 9 | DEC said it was booting up in Seattle . |
| 10 | I had my fill of fucking antiques when I was growing up in Pimlico , and in Trenton , New Jersey . |
| 11 | Phyllisia faced many trials while she was growing up in Harlem , the first occurred when she was mocked by other pupils in her class , they called her ‘ Monkey chaser ’ and ‘ Teachers pet ’ because she was cleverer than the others . |
| 12 | Says Brian Bovell of the Posse : ‘ I remember when I was growing up in Tottenham in the Sixties , how my mum and dead dealt with potentially scary , racist situations — they found dignity through humour . |
| 13 | When he was growing up in Dearborn there was a succession of sad-sack , embarrassing ( to a fan of Johnny Unitas ) , old-world relations with funny accents who were constantly belly-aching about the war and — of course — the dreadful death and displacement which had taken place . |
| 14 | The whole town was going up in flames . |
| 15 | Nor did any intuition , any extra sense , alert him to the fact that part of the case he was quietly and imperceptibly building up inside him was going up in smoke . |
| 16 | Possibly world war III was brewing up in Nicaragua — he mentioned that to North , though North doubted it , thought the Russians would never fight for the place — and here was he , O'Boyle , being told about the innermost strategic details . |
| 17 | The previous night she had dreamed she was sitting up in Nathan 's bunk , holding a baby to her breast . |
| 18 | Arty was sitting up in bed , his hair shining from a liberal application of something that looked and smelled like perfumed vaseline and came from a jar labelled Easi-Gro . |
| 19 | ‘ There you are , ’ said Patrick , who was sitting up in bed . |
| 20 | She was sitting up in bed showing off her sunburn . |
| 21 | She was sitting up in bed learning the chant which was to be tested the next day . |
| 22 | She was sitting up in bed , her glasses already adorning her gaunt face and her hair curled up tightly on rollers . |
| 23 | Piggott was sitting up in bed , laughing at reports in American newspapers that his legendary 44-year career is finished . |
| 24 | She was sitting up in bed , and she drank , spluttered , and grinned . |
| 25 | Philpott was sitting up in bed , his face hidden behind a copy of the New York Times . |
| 26 | She was sitting up in bed listening to the radio on the headphones . |
| 27 | The penicillin injected into Julia 's veins four times a day killed the infection inexorably , and within three days the oxygen tent had been removed and she was sitting up in bed waiting for her meals with real hunger . |
| 28 | She was sitting up in bed with a light shawl round her shoulders and a book on her lap , apparently quite composed . |
| 29 | Selina was sitting up in bed when I went through with my drink . |
| 30 | She was sitting up in bed in a profusion of little pillows . |