Example sentences of "always [v-ing] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five and six in the morning , and you 're always waking up in the middle of the night cos you do n't know , you know , if summat 's happened or summat 's gon na happen . |
| 2 | I 'm always waking up in the night . |
| 3 | There were quite a few battles before Pearce got British Aerospace on the road to privatisation , particularly with civil servants and ‘ officials who were not really responsible , but tended to sit on the sidelines criticising and always coming up with a reason why you could n't do anything . ’ |
| 4 | Message-sending and letter-writing went on , and they were always running up to the telephone booths at the station . |
| 5 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |
| 6 | He tried to say this in a way that suggested that he was always ringing up for a natter about arsenic and thallium , that there was nothing odd about his request . |
| 7 | If your teenagers are always queuing up outside the bathroom , it might be a good idea to think about installing washbasins in their bedrooms . |