Example sentences of "be [v-ing] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 2 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 3 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 5 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 6 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 7 | Large numbers of British birds are nesting up to 22 days earlier than normal , possibly reflecting changes in climate as a result of global warming , according to a report by the British Trust for Ornithology . |
| 8 | MARKETS in the Far East and Middle East are opening up for hi-tech heat-beating textile produced by Performance Fabrics . |
| 9 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 10 | CYCLING organisations in Wales are gearing up for National Bike Week , which begins on Saturday . |
| 11 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 12 | ALL-GIRL band L7 are teaming up with wild rockers Nirvana in a bid to promote women 's rights . |
| 13 | They are teaming up with British and American publishers for simultaneous English and German editions of the same book , or themselves issuing an increasing number of bilingual ( usually German/English ) books . |
| 14 | For a while now the narrow house has been filling up with medical paraphernalia , with doctoring tackle . |
| 15 | Daily passenger figures are averaging 100 but weekends are looking up with more than double that figure each afternoon . |
| 16 | Swindon have to fight on in the promotion race … while Oxford have to battle on in the relegation scramble … but things are looking up for United … they 're off the bottom of the table for the first time since November thanks to a win at Brighton |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But if you are charged a few pounds , you 'll soon make up the difference once you 're filling up with cheaper , lead-free petrol . |
| 19 | Got to stop and then you say you 're going up to middle class . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Now what 's happening up here , we 're going up in hundreds . |
| 22 | Right you started so you 're going up in hundreds , it 's two squares at a time , but only one hundred for each two squares . |
| 23 | What that means is that when you 're facing up to foreign situations , you tend to pull together you tend not to divide you tend not to emphasise the differences between you . |
| 24 | ‘ No , I know it is n't and you 're closing up before nine , are n't you ? |
| 25 | Well there 's a couple of things I will , I 'll , I 'll add then before we 're shutting up about this . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ But I ca n't see why you 're putting up with such nonsense . |
| 28 | We 're setting up in another hangar and hope to be back in business soon . |
| 29 | ‘ They 've made the accident story official , and now they 're covering up like mad . |
| 30 | and he said you know , he said they have n't been turning up at that chapel for them , when they 've preaching but you did n't crack on they knew anything about that but he just sort of said said no you know remain non-committal . |