Example sentences of "was [v-ing] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teal Green was coughing up a lungful of smoke when the Base was plunged into darkness . |
| 2 | When they came to the apartment , Mary-Claude was cooking up a storm in the kitchen , Sarah was squalling in her crib in the front bedroom and in the back it was wall-to-wall Star Wars , with all the electronic gear we had in there . |
| 3 | Why , I remember being in a stagecoach , with the Apaches attacking , and out on the road with Henry Fonda and the Okies and shooting Tyrone Power while he was hanging up a picture … ’ |
| 4 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 5 | A monster 's mum was hanging up the washing in the garden when she suddenly yelled at him : |
| 6 | You see the tractor driving it , there 's the load , this was gathering up the hay as it went along and it tipped it over and we had to make the loads you see . |
| 7 | It seemed particularly appropriate to him that Antonio was sticking up a poster depicting Rita Hayworth when his bicycle was stolen — a subtle juxtaposition of artificiality and realism in the cinema . |
| 8 | Reformist government ministers used the press revelations to support their claims that Khasbulatov was building up a power base . |
| 9 | Calderpark Zoo in Broomhouse was building up a collection of small furry things and a few larger ones , and Easterhouse , Garthamlock and Ruchazie were still bramble-filled lanes between the Edinburgh Road and Stepps . |
| 10 | Folkestone was a pocket borough of the Rothschilds , Southend was falling under the control of the Guinness family , Plymouth was learning to love the Astors , and Samuel Roberts was building up the influence in Sheffield that was to provide a seat for his family until 1966 . |
| 11 | They have taken Fergusson the teacher , while he was nailing up the lists , and stripped him and tarred him — ‘ Donald — you would not do that ! |
| 12 | The Committee decided to form a government and by Wednesday 1 March Miliukov , who had emerged as the dominant figure , was drawing up a list of potential cabinet ministers . |
| 13 | Labour said it was stepping up the pressure for an urgent Commons statement from the Chancellor to clarify which areas of spending were ruled in or out from the Treasury review . |
| 14 | There was a sour smell and the growing heat of the sun was sucking up a mist from the waters . |
| 15 | The howling growling blood-drenched boy was eating up the foreman . |
| 16 | The other day , one lunchtime in fact , I was walking up the Farringdon Road . |
| 17 | No , I was walking up the ramps and it was ripped out of my hand actually . |
| 18 | David was walking up the garden path , half an hour earlier than expected . |
| 19 | She was walking up the Mound to do the lunch shift at the Right and Wrong . |
| 20 | She opened the heavy oak doors and the dogs swept past her bounding across the drive to their master who was opening up the car boot to remove his luggage . |
| 21 | Here he studied under Otto Wallach , who was opening up the chemistry of terpenes natural products important as flavours and fragrances . |
| 22 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 23 | Victoria has slipped from that part of the head where pressing thoughts gather , taking with her a lot of the baggage that was cluttering up the hallways . |
| 24 | Drunks were making a din on the stairs and a sculptor was tearing up a collection of Kisling 's drawings and throwing them down on to the head of the concierge . |
| 25 | He was quite near Philip now and was climbing up the bank towards the spot where Philip had thrown the stone . |
| 26 | I wondered if she was hunting up an appetite but I did n't ask , just like I did n't ask about Werewolf 's trip to Dublin . |
| 27 | Wearing plastic gloves , he was picking up a pipe from a glass bowl to slip it inside a transparent bag . |
| 28 | Mind you when she went home she noticed her accent was getting worse and worse and she was picking up a sort of English reticence or so they enjoyed telling her . |
| 29 | Two well-turned-out girls in green aprons and an even smarter-looking youth waited to serve a customer who was picking up a bunch of grapes . |
| 30 | She was picking up the knack . |