Example sentences of "i have [be] [v-ing] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd been jumping up and down like an eejit for a couple of minutes before the bloke next to me tapped me politely on the shoulder to point out the linesman and his flag . |
| 3 | I had n't had a lot of luck finding the man I wanted , but at least I 'd been getting up to date on my social exercises , like who was drinking with who , and in what bars . |
| 4 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 5 | I had been reaching up to put packets and tins into one of the wall cupboards , but this startled me into turning . |
| 6 | I had been saving up to buy a cooker and fridge and Brian 's mum and dad gave us some of the furniture . |
| 7 | I 've been reading up on brochs , but when you 're actually there it 's really just the setting that 's so marvellous , and trying to imagine the sort of life they lived . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Never , but I 've been reading up on the history . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 11 | Er , I 'm er the last er f five days or so , I 've been getting up less . |
| 12 | I 've been getting up three times . |
| 13 | I 've been saving up towards a Christmas food hamper all year and now it 's arrived I 'm very disappointed with it . |
| 14 | I 've been picking up after them all night and all morning . |
| 15 | When asked about it , he replied in his much-imitated growl , ‘ Fifteen years I 've been coming up here and they have to go and put this lump of concrete in the middle of the road . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been working up north , ’ I smiled , convinced that for her the North began at Cannon Street . |
| 17 | I was work la last week and I erm I got ta scrub my nails after done everything anyway like every , like after I made the sandwiches , I scrub my nails after I 've been washing up , scrub my nails so I was scrubbing them all day Saturday , last week and it still did n't come out . |
| 18 | ‘ I got a whole morning off in Bruges , and I guess I 've been making up for it ever since . ’ |
| 19 | I 've been rigging up a crush . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been walking up and down Fleet Street , if you want to know , ’ he said , ‘ to see whether I could still show my face in public . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been waking up all night every night covered in sweat , just the whole bed dripping in it . |
| 23 | " Well , I 've been sitting up with one of my best sows . |
| 24 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 25 | Of course , I have been making up a lot of nonsense about machines getting in touch with one another . |