Example sentences of "be [v-ing] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE in County Durham are stepping up the fight against crime after a wide ranging shake-up in senior personnel . |
| 2 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 3 | We also pledge that when we are drawing up the membership of the commission we shall take into account his earlier suggestions about widening the membership . |
| 4 | Ratners marketing director Simon de Mille says : ‘ We are speeding up the process . |
| 5 | Fran Bennett , CPAG director , suggests both major parties are softening up the public for more means-testing and fewer rights to universal benefits . |
| 6 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 7 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 8 | And Swindon are bouncing up the table into third now . |
| 9 | Small wonder that green products , halfway genuine or frankly fake , are filling up the supermarket shelves . |
| 10 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 11 | I despise the stupidity of those painters who defended the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ to its new air-conditioned penthouse because , in setting such a precedent , they are passing up the opportunity of bequeathing their own works to the Prado . |
| 12 | We 're building up the crockery . |
| 13 | When you 're drawing up the timetable right at the beginning there is no reason why you can not fix your planning meeting dates , and stick pretty closely to them . |
| 14 | Yes , very good , we 're climbing up the league now , week by week . |
| 15 | As for the Multiple sclerosis sufferers at Didcot ; they believe there 's enough evidence to give credibility to their treatment , so they 're keeping up the pressure both inside and outside the chamber . |
| 16 | Lisabeth and Fenella took the left one ( ‘ Fenella , you 're steaming up the glass ! ’ ) and I took the right . |
| 17 | Better take it up — you do n't want to trip on it when you 're walking up the aisle . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Next thing they 're walking up the aisle . |
| 19 | LIE BACK AND THINK OF … well , certainly not England when you 're soaking up the sun in St Tropez . |
| 20 | Cos you 're filling up the weeder bin and I want well anyway , we we 've got to get sorted out compost for it . |
| 21 | but we thought well we 're going up the grave and it 's not exactly out the way so we thought we 'd pop in . |
| 22 | We 're holding up the traffic . ’ |
| 23 | Police radio describes how they 're giving up the chase because there are a lot of children about and it could be dangerous . |
| 24 | ‘ We 're vacuuming up the debris on the land and mulching it again , ’ Hawtree explains . |
| 25 | They 're buildin' up the trade an' Carrie 's got plans . |
| 26 | Erm put a heading er , The test of David Copperfield , but you 're not doing the test you 're making up the test . |
| 27 | So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it . |
| 28 | Thus , when you 're setting up the mouse , for instance , if you 've got MOUSE.COM loaded , Presentations senses it and uses its MOUSE.COM interface . |
| 29 | That , I mean they 're setting up the County Working , a County Working Group again are n't they ? |
| 30 | We 're setting up the administration to cope with the chain that we are building . ’ |