Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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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 | ‘ We 're still following up contacts made at that show , and quite a number have already turned into customers . ’ |
6 | By the time we do our morning and the , you 're then getting up sort of thing you see |
7 | No , but they 're bloody grown up children in there . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Rival warlords are also holding up mercy missions with feuds over contracts to take food to drought-ravaged towns and villages . |
11 | He says he is in Liverpool but we are also keeping up inquiries in Scotland . ’ |
12 | They are also dreaming up gadgets . |
13 | 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 ? |
14 | Scientists are now drawing up plans to clean up the mess . |
15 | Having fallen in love with each other , the couple are now setting up home together at lightning speed . |
16 | Things are so bad in Glasgow , he added , traders are now putting up signs saying ‘ Pre-Fire Sale ’ . |
17 | Detectives are now following up information given to them . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | I 'm just tidying up Jonathan I 've been cleaning it . |
20 | 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 ! |
21 | 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 ? ’ |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has declared its intention of buying up to 15 per cent and is thought to be quietly picking up stock . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | ‘ They were fighting , ’ says Lucy , ‘ over the fluffy head of my son , as if his parents were already pushing up daisies ! |
27 | Far from reducing taxation , as we had been elected to do , we would have to raise it — and raise it at a time when local councils were already pushing up rates . |
28 | People were always picking up hitch-hikers . |
29 | Last night , Gen Noriega 's armed militia were still setting up roadblocks in the city 's main financial district , while the new civilian government , headed by Mr Guillermo Endara , was kept under guard by the US military , which said it was too risky for it to appear in public . |
30 | In 1985 dredgers were busily raking up gravel from the shoals in the river to put into more gabions for bank reinforcement beside the Trannon . |