Example sentences of "was [v-ing] up to the " in BNC.

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1 Following the other girl 's fixed gaze , Anita noticed that a large black chauffeur-driven limousine was drawing up to the edge of the road .
2 Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’
3 Benny reddened at the stares , but Nan had left the two admirers and was bounding up to the back row .
4 Now he 'd told me he was going up to the Cathedral .
5 Yvonne seemed silently furious , then announced she was going up to the lifeboat shed to buy some souvenir crap or whatever .
6 And his finger was pointing up to the ceiling .
7 The underground revolution was coming up to the surface , although it was nowhere near breaking through .
8 I left him to his problems because it was coming up to the time when Emil had said the crew should board the train , and I was due back in the coffee shop .
9 William completed his five-year stay in Clerkenwell successfully ; by the time it was over his brother Benjamin James was already down in Somerset and Charles Frederick was coming up to the age when he , too , would become an apprentice .
10 What they , yes , what they done , they used to have a large long pull with a hook on and attached to a rope and as the ship was coming up to the river , they would throw this here pole on to a ship with a hook and then pay the rope out and then get towed up to the quay , the ship would n't stop for them to pick them up , pick that boat
11 And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage .
12 He was dancing up to the youngest dog again , sideways this time , head on one side , goading him .
13 As the younger one was reaching up to the mantlepiece with the flowers , her frock caught fire ; her sister ran to her aid , and soon both girls were engulfed in the flames .
14 The lights went down further , and I guessed Kruger was working up to the big climax , whatever that was .
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