Example sentences of "was [v-ing] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 2 | A monster 's mum was hanging up the washing in the garden when she suddenly yelled at him : |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The howling growling blood-drenched boy was eating up the foreman . |
| 8 | The other day , one lunchtime in fact , I was walking up the Farringdon Road . |
| 9 | No , I was walking up the ramps and it was ripped out of my hand actually . |
| 10 | David was walking up the garden path , half an hour earlier than expected . |
| 11 | She was walking up the Mound to do the lunch shift at the Right and Wrong . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Here he studied under Otto Wallach , who was opening up the chemistry of terpenes natural products important as flavours and fragrances . |
| 14 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He was quite near Philip now and was climbing up the bank towards the spot where Philip had thrown the stone . |
| 17 | She was picking up the knack . |
| 18 | It was a stand-off , he was picking up the Yankee jargon . |
| 19 | It would be nice to think their affair had meant something to him , and after Seville he was picking up the pieces of his life and had found happiness with another woman . |
| 20 | He was looking up the driveway , trying to make out the shape of the house through the trees . |
| 21 | The van would arrive every evening to give food to the homeless living on the streets and she was serving up the soup when she saw a man sitting in the doorway . |
| 22 | By this time Marty was scrambling up the ladder , and in our relief we were convulsed with laughter . |
| 23 | Only a few weeks after returning from playing with polar bears in Spitsbergen , I was soaking up the sun in the Seychelles . |
| 24 | Father Crispin had unfortunately just knocked over a wine cup and was cleaning up the mess with a napkin . |
| 25 | And he had this this erm casting of a plane you know he was cleaning up the edges gave the game away of course then . |
| 26 | Elinor asked Buzz , who was adding up the Scrabble score . |
| 27 | Between 1800 and 1850 , however , a hard soapy-looking yellow brick was pouring up the Thames from Suffolk , and most of the new Middlesex churches were built of it . |
| 28 | ‘ The priest was so preoccupied he did n't see the van and was heading up the ramp when I stopped him . ’ |
| 29 | He was heading up the President 's getaway operation at the Abbey . |
| 30 | I borrowed fifty P off her the oth , I was going up the school , and I only had four fifty for the I needed fifty P but I did n't have enough change like . |