Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days all aircrew had to take a six monthly Basic Efficiency Examination to ensure they were keeping up to date with equipment and training procedures . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | The tables were filling up for afternoon tea . |
| 4 | Fifteen months had passed since the end of the Great War , and now the docks and wharves of London were filling up with produce and commodities of all kinds . |
| 5 | After all , we were coming up to Christmas , season of goodwill . |
| 6 | The three year contracts that Lyall and McGiven signed in the summer of 1990 were coming up for expiry so the Town board have been working to keep their highly successful pair with the club to put a stop to speculation and rumours that were beginning to start . |
| 7 | Shops were coming up for sale all over the precinct . |
| 8 | Many of the players were playing up in front of the water but Sam was through the green with a 2-iron . |
| 9 | And before I could resolve the problem I was struggling up in bed , in the pitch blackness , reaching for the shrilling telephone . |
| 10 | Sour milk was hanging up in muslin , to turn into cream cheese . |
| 11 | ‘ Key was hanging up in reception . ’ |
| 12 | So much so that the waves were crashing over the boat , and the boat was filling up with water . |
| 13 | ‘ One day I was filling up with petrol when a chap stopped to say he was a member of the Ferrari Owners Club and used to have a car like mine , ’ says John . |
| 14 | This now returned and it seemed that her meeting with Tom and Peter had been like a dream from which she was waking up to reality . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His voice was spiralling up to laughter . |
| 17 | My ! that would be something to cope with , if it got round the unit that he was going up to Lemon 's place . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The following January he announced he was splitting up with girlfriend Vicky Stewart , 29 , after 12 years together . |
| 20 | The governors had effectively decided at an emergency meeting on Tuesday night that Mr Birt should stay but question marks still hung over the future of Mr Hussey , especially as the BBC 's General Advisory Council recommended on Wednesday that he should go for effectively bringing the BBC into disrepute at a time when its charter was coming up for renegotiation . |
| 21 | British Rail 's diesel stock was coming up for replacement and we needed to decide whether to reinvest in diesel equipment or to invest in electrification . |
| 22 | He rang to say that he was coming up to town that evening … ’ |
| 23 | And there 's a story about the late Duke of Portland when he was travelling up to estate where his lodge was . |
| 24 | When he was not ducking and weaving through the cedar brush with this curious hat on his head , Gould was sitting up at night on the Appletree Flats waiting to ambush a tawny-shouldered podargus or crouching next to a hole in the ground close to Stephen 's garden gate waiting for the appearance of an unfamiliar little mouse . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ There you are , ’ said Patrick , who was sitting up in bed . |
| 27 | She was sitting up in bed showing off her sunburn . |
| 28 | She was sitting up in bed learning the chant which was to be tested the next day . |
| 29 | She was sitting up in bed , her glasses already adorning her gaunt face and her hair curled up tightly on rollers . |
| 30 | Piggott was sitting up in bed , laughing at reports in American newspapers that his legendary 44-year career is finished . |