Example sentences of "be [v-ing] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , ’ Ashley said , beginning to feel flustered by what seemed to be shaping up into another interrogation . |
| 2 | Without pilots gaining experience at the lowest level , we will be shaping up for another chronic pilots shortage in a few years ' time . |
| 3 | In about ten minutes time we 'll be catching up with all the local football league results . |
| 4 | Welcome back … in a few minutes we 'll be catching up with one of the fastest men on water … |
| 5 | Suddenly the lack of sleep and tension seemed to be catching up in one great wave of dizziness . |
| 6 | The biggest and most competitive game of the day will be up at Eaton Park , where Ballymena take on Instonians , two teams who will be squaring up to each other in the AIL Division Two next season . |
| 7 | You will soon be meeting up with other dogs and your pack instincts will come into their own . |
| 8 | Things seemed to be looking up at last , ’ she says . |
| 9 | His interest in Roman remains was minimal , and in any case his ears ( incipient otosclerosis , his personal physician had diagnosed ) seemed to be filling up with thicker and thicker wads of cotton-wool each day . |
| 10 | And the chances are that Best will be teaming up with another hero of the game , Rodney Marsh , for a double act that could rival the popular Saint and Greavsie . |
| 11 | When he opened the door and saw who 'd come for him he did n't expect to be waking up at all . |
| 12 | This could only be leading up to one thing : when are you going to marry my daughter ? |
| 13 | Stevenson , a quick-moving , stocky northerner with a distinguished record in every possible branch of the Met , was rumoured to be going up to Assistant Commissioner just as soon as the present incumbent retired . |
| 14 | In one of the biggest about turns in city politics , six thousand council house tenants have been told that their rents wo n't after all be going up by forty five per cent , and their homes wo n't be sold to a private landlord . |
| 15 | ‘ I presume I 'll be doubling up on both parts , ’ O'Hara said . |
| 16 | " You wo n't be riding up to High Tor any more , I suppose ? " |
| 17 | AS world leaders journey to Rio for the Earth Summit meeting , a gathering at Middlesbrough 's St Mary 's Centre will be facing up to some of the issues confronting world leaders in Brazil . |
| 18 | Well it 's funny because erm , when we saw Ken the other day he was saying that erm his niece rang him up and erm she 's er she 's gon na be in Crewe this weekend for a friend 's wedding and , I think she must be coming up with some , some other girl as well , because the two of them , he said , I 'm taking two young ladies out on Sunday for lunch where 's a good place for a Sunday lunch you see ? |
| 19 | But there was only two of us and the firm did not want to keep you on , realizing that you could be coming up for fifteen , they they finished you . |
| 20 | Sparta 'll be coming up in five minutes exactly . ’ |
| 21 | By 2020 , China could be emitting up to three times the US total ( although its per capita figure will probably stay below the US ) . |
| 22 | Dettori , who will be warming up for next season in Hong Kong , did not rest on his laurels , steering odds-on Shintillo to a sauntering success in the Something For The Boys Maiden . |
| 23 | By the time Adidas and Umbro got in on the act in the late-Seventies , a shirt could be carrying up to 40 little advertisements for the manufacturers , less than subtly integrated into the stripes . |
| 24 | Often , of course , the story is so important that they have to cover it , but it goes against the grain to be sweeping up behind another paper 's scoops . |
| 25 | Now it claims to be receiving up to ten a week , with Glasgow and Yorkshire emerging as illegal software hot spots . |