Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] up [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 2 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 3 | Daily passenger figures are averaging 100 but weekends are looking up with more than double that figure each afternoon . |
| 4 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |
| 5 | And we went up there , oh dear , driving up there you 're going up on this little tiny when you 've got a big car . |
| 6 | Well there 's a couple of things I will , I 'll , I 'll add then before we 're shutting up about this . |
| 7 | And erm the erm your view is completely blocked altogether when you 're coming up to that roundabout , as you know they come up from erm Southfield Road and Divinity Road which comes up on to that roundabout , and erm I think it 's very very dangerous . |
| 8 | ‘ But I ca n't see why you 're putting up with such nonsense . |
| 9 | We 're setting up in another hangar and hope to be back in business soon . |
| 10 | The Empire is crumbling into civil war , Daemons are popping up on all sides , and who 's to say that the Great Enchanter does n't have a hand in it somewhere ? |
| 11 | Yes Karen all right I 'm building up to that for goodness sake . |
| 12 | I 'm going up to that there mass of spaghetti , and I 'm going to make sure . ’ |
| 13 | I sit and read and I 'm tightening up like this and I like that to sort of |
| 14 | I believe they are standing up to this tour well . |
| 15 | ‘ But you are making up for that today , ’ said Dr Neil gravely , his mouth twitching , particularly when she looked at him , a question on her pretty face , her mouth being too full for further speech . |
| 16 | U2 are smashing up against this tradition as much as daft rock developments elsewhere , determined to introduce original music and manner to backward Irish youth . |