Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
| 2 | And somebody has been covering up for him — smoothing his footprints out of the mud , rubbing his fingerprints off the door handles . |
| 3 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 4 | Might have been queuing up for the keep-fit actually , yes I was , I was queuing up to go to keep-fit and there was a woman in the queue saying that about so and so and so , ooh he 's moving she said ! |
| 5 | Worse still , the new skiers — beginners — who should have been making up for those who stop because old age or the arrival of infants stops ski holidays — were simply not attracted to a sport when everyone was complaining about bad conditions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
| 8 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 9 | Toby Tobias was quickest away and Desert Orchid could find no more , but the race was far from finished , for as Mark Pitman on Toby Tobias made for the winning post Graham McCourt urged Norton 's Coin to a final effort , and as the two jockeys , whips swishing , pushed their courageous mounts up the hill the cheers from the stands which moments before had been tuning up for another Dessie triumph lapsed into a disbelieving murmur : this was not the right script at all . |
| 10 | ‘ I got a whole morning off in Bruges , and I guess I 've been making up for it ever since . ’ |
| 11 | The Cavaliers and Roundheads have been stocking up for another season , re-enacting the English Civil War . |
| 12 | ‘ Since the late Sixties , ’ says Richard , ‘ the women have become more active and have been standing up for themselves , as is only right , but men have become more passive . |
| 13 | Welcome back:Thousands of new Oxford students have been signing up for anything from scuba diving to tiddlywinks , in this year 's freshers ' fair . |
| 14 | The marquees have been going up for the Hay on Wye festival of Literature which begins tonight . |
| 15 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 16 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 17 | It 's a performance story that 's been adding up for over a decade . |
| 18 | It 's been lying up for about a year and a half |