Example sentences of "be [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be traced up the boulder strewn fellside easterly of the beetling Kernal Crag , along and over Thriddle Scar ( in which were ancient workings but little other than trials ) across ground with pits , trials and trenches , made by early miners along its strike , to pass below the northern margin of Levers Water . |
| 2 | The effect will be to drive up the exchange rate . |
| 3 | He knew that the howling wind would be whipping up the downfall into deep drifts on the exposed high moor . |
| 4 | " To be bossing up the school . |
| 5 | ‘ They 'll be bringing up the squares at any minute . |
| 6 | But if they were supposed to be keeping up the fiction about being happily married — a second honeymoon , indeed ! — then it was going to look a bit odd , if not downright peculiar , if he did n't spend his nights here in the cottage . |
| 7 | But we will be keeping up the pressure . ’ |
| 8 | You could be opening up the way to new prosperity . |
| 9 | Alternatively , they may be lifted up the backstay by shockcord to keep them out of the way . |
| 10 | A better solution may well be to pick up the idea of rotating the audit partner every five to 10 years . |
| 11 | ‘ You wo n't be paying for inappropriate placements and you wo n't be picking up the bill for carers later . |
| 12 | What you 'll find , you 'll find in here that it 'll just be picking up the budgies mainly . |
| 13 | This time he seems to be picking up the signals of some approaching hostility towards him . |
| 14 | I can see that you 'll soon be picking up the reins . |
| 15 | We should n't be picking up the tab . |
| 16 | You could be passing up the chance to obtain the most loving , loyal friend anyone could wish for . |
| 17 | The next , more difficult step will be to clean up the mess . |
| 18 | When the time of Hasan 's Occultation came , they would , presumably , be swarming up the drainpipes waving scimitars and carrying on like a thwarted group of reporters from the Sun . |
| 19 | One thing you might want to do as a way of putting an argument together would be to look up the word " Romanticism " in the dictionary , since Byron 's poetry belongs to this literary movement . |
| 20 | For the next couple of days , the Britannia will be anchored up the coast , where Prince Charles will work on a BBC film about the environment and talk to government radicals with whom it was considered impolitic for him to spend time during his official itinerary . |
| 21 | The wording referring to the specific location in the location description would by definition have to be drawn up the region , cos they would have intimate knowledge of the locality that er sorry and the costs would be drawn up by the region because they would know as I say intimately they would know that specific development |
| 22 | Do not take it for granted that Accounts will be paying up the way you want or that suppliers will stay with you if they do n't get paid on time . |
| 23 | I do n't know much about most things , but I do know whether people will be going up the Alps or not . ’ |
| 24 | This evening seems to be going up the spout . |
| 25 | Because I shall be going up the town |
| 26 | As the plant grows the band can be slid up the canes or , as the plant grows wider , both canes and band removed and repositioned . |
| 27 | Only people with soft heads stick them in the sand and wait to be kicked up the arse by little cheats and liars . |
| 28 | ‘ I did not feel guilty about having to be kicked up the arse . |
| 29 | This is followed by pushing the arms above the head , so that the cross breaks and the student appears to be holding up the ceiling . |
| 30 | He 's concerned that banking attitudes may be holding up the recovery . |