Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bookmakers Ladbrokes are catching up with the odds on races on four wheels instead of four legs and offering odds on Senna ( 11–8 ) and Prost ( 7–4 ) for the world championship during the week the cars were being loaded for the opening grand prix in Phoenix . |
| 2 | Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May . |
| 3 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 4 | Now that new possibilities are opening up in the Balkans , they will modify this . |
| 5 | TEENAGE girls are ending up with the bones of old women because of eating disorders which are producing ‘ horrifying results ’ , a doctor said yesterday . |
| 6 | Can any of you who are meeting up for the spurs game do me a favour , please ? |
| 7 | Tutor Viv Shelley will look at whether manufacturing industries are living up to the green images they promote , the adequacy of monitoring processes and ask what responsibility lies with the public . |
| 8 | But they are unable to process this and obviously that will be different for children at different stages of their development erm younger children being particularly susceptible to the sort of atmosphere around them , and if they are picking up from the adults around them , be that through the media or within the context of their everyday lives , that there is something dangerous and disturbing going on , then they are obviously going to reflect that unease in their behaviour . |
| 9 | Well I mean , if you bought them and then you 're building up during the year , but you know , we can always have them for |
| 10 | It enables your staff to know themselves how well they 're doing their job , and if they 're keeping up to the mark . |
| 11 | But while you 're keeping up with the latest ‘ squirrel-proof ’ bird feeders and designer nest-boxes , do keep a critical eye open , too . |
| 12 | So that you 're keeping up with the fractions . |
| 13 | Cos you know , you you 're cracking up with the noise , it 's quite easy to er shake your three year old or your |
| 14 | Not really , just sort of helps you know what you what you 're picking up off the shelf . |
| 15 | They 're looking up at the sign board , and holding each other 's hand . |
| 16 | They 're growing up in the village . |
| 17 | You 're running up to the thing , yeah ? |
| 18 | And often you forget , and your brain flies off somewhere to do something else , I fancied that bird last night , God the beer 's rough in that bloody hotel , I wonder what that , I wonder how they 're doing up at the depot ? |
| 19 | They 're coming up for the luggage . ’ |
| 20 | Well first time , first time you 're coming up to the supermarket , drop it , drop them in |
| 21 | They 're all th round there , round that dahlia they 're coming up in the corner over there , and there 's some here , and I think they 're all coming . |
| 22 | Mm , what gets me is how Creda they 're gon na , they 're , they 're coming up in the pink and |
| 23 | Chairman can I just clarify that we we 're saying up to the erm what I 've said in speaking was that two point one million beyond that what is actually in the budget erm which is . |
| 24 | And because pollarding has not been carried out , tall , heavy shoots are growing up from the ancient trunks , which are usually rotten and hollow inside , and these too often either split or simply collapse " . |
| 25 | But BBC officials are waking up to the fact that , while they have been allocated both of Britain 's channels for high-power satellite broadcasts , the kind that could be received direct into people 's homes , they have no monopoly on low-power transmissions from satellites , the kind that could be picked up by central receiving stations — and transmitted via cable to homes . |
| 26 | Service managers are waking up to the value of experienced nurses whose understandable reservations about being out of date with current ideas and technologies prevent them from taking up their careers again . |
| 27 | Now America is the hottest market ; institutions that find Wall Street overvalued are waking up to the attraction of overseas investment . |
| 28 | At long last , the motor manufacturers are waking up to the reality that they ought to do more and that they too can assist in the reduction of car crime . |
| 29 | Their fortunes will become more divided than before : some are waking up from the party with happier memories than others . |
| 30 | Would-be engine drivers and guards are lining up at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton for the chance to transform their own personal childhood fantasy into reality . |