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Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Ray , a Veterans Athletic Club road and cross-country runner , has been slowly picking up speed during his first six or seven years back in the sport and he 's now a top-ranked man .
2	why do we need our our our our our our P E kit when we 're only putting up tents ?
3	First Chipping Norton , then the world , and they 're already picking up bookings .
4	And if you 're just taking up gardening , it can be difficult to decide what you really need — to begin with you can easily get by with a few basic tools .
5	What a lot of people are doing is they 're not putting up rails but they 're putting up a erm a border halfway up are n't they , or just not quite halfway up the wall .
6	We 're not giving up hope .
7	We 're not giving up hope .
8	‘ We 're still following up contacts made at that show , and quite a number have already turned into customers . ’
9	By the time we do our morning and the , you 're then getting up sort of thing you see
10	No , but they 're bloody grown up children in there .
11	They are always hitching up underpants , scratching away happily at unspeakable things in their breeches and , with one finger , boldly trying to free their underpants that have become lodged somewhere dark and irretrievable that we can only guess at .
12	Now if you think about commercial potatoes and the ones that keep , the late ones , they are always harvested after the have died down , a long time after , in fact some of them are still digging up potatoes now .
13	Rival warlords are also holding up mercy missions with feuds over contracts to take food to drought-ravaged towns and villages .
14	He says he is in Liverpool but we are also keeping up inquiries in Scotland . ’
15	They are also dreaming up gadgets .
16	All planning authorities are now drawing up rules to prevent new homes being built in surrounding countryside , so what will happen in Swindon when existing sites are exhausted ?
17	Scientists are now drawing up plans to clean up the mess .
18	Having fallen in love with each other , the couple are now setting up home together at lightning speed .
19	Things are so bad in Glasgow , he added , traders are now putting up signs saying ‘ Pre-Fire Sale ’ .
20	Detectives are now following up information given to them .
21	You need not be constantly totting up calories for everything that you eat ( unless you want to of course ) , but do bear in mind the high calorie value of fat and keep it to a minimum .
22	I 'm just tidying up Jonathan I 've been cleaning it .
23	I 'm really making up bits now , making the picture look how I want it to look — dark on light , light on dark — not forgetting to look in the mirror !
24	The first recognition that response is not as it should be immediately conjures up visions of lost working time , expensive repairs , frustrating delays and , perhaps most evocative of all , the thought , ‘ how long is it since I last did a backup ? ’
25	Yeah but they were saying now , it 's like our , in the like local paper the poll tax is gon na prob , might be even go up double because of the non-payers .
26	We are still left with the dilemma that despite all the potential sophistication , the lymphocytes actually in the infection seem to be there using up energy for the sake of using up energy — like cars stuck in a traffic jam with their engines racing .
27	Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has declared its intention of buying up to 15 per cent and is thought to be quietly picking up stock .
28	Was it that men really were bad — were men who were not beating up women and buggering children the exceptions ?
29	But all the same he wished that McAllister were not going up West with Rose that night , and wondered what was coming over him that such a fly-trap could fill his waking — and his sleeping — thoughts !
30	As the diesel train came in and people were already picking up suitcases from the platform Moran turned and kissed her as if it were a last good night to all the nights she had come to him .