Example sentences of "it have [be] [v-ing] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( This story seems to have originated in North America half a century ago and it has been cropping up all over that continent ever since . ) |
| 2 | ‘ My knee feels all right when I am running , bit it has been swelling up slightly afterwards . |
| 3 | ( a ) A wrasse emerging from the mouth of a grouper ( Plectrotromus maculatus ) which it has been cleaning up . |
| 4 | It , I mean it has been going up rather high , this has been |
| 5 | Delaney had a split second to realise that all along it had been setting up a trap for them . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 7 | The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 9 | ‘ The thing is , it 's been building up inside me for weeks . |
| 10 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 11 | It 's been bleeding up again . |
| 12 | It 's been lying up for about a year and a half |
| 13 | It 's been playing up again . ’ |
| 14 | It 's been creeping up on me for a while . |