Example sentences of "be [v-ing] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our excitement would rise ; soon we knew the names ; on the left the Lawley and Caradoc , on the right the Longmynd , and in two minutes we would be drawing up at the nerve centre Church Stretton . |
| 2 | I 'll be catching up on the progress of our women in management . |
| 3 | He seemed to be gazing up at the night sky . |
| 4 | So , you 'll be ending up on the breadline worse than ever |
| 5 | He must be walking up to the |
| 6 | Arts teachers are also not seen as helping their own cause in as much as classroom practices in the arts might not be living up to the expectations of other professional staff . |
| 7 | Wow Gary you 'd be saving up till the end of the days |
| 8 | When he gets time off from a fairly packed schedule after The Eleventh Station he 'll be teaming up with the Muscles from Brussels , Jean Claude van Damme , in a film called Universal Soldier Dolph relaxes by playing the drums . |
| 9 | Many thousands of bicycles will be lining up for the Argus Cycling Tour … but one entry is particularly unusual … because it 's a tandem . |
| 10 | He 's through to his first World Longtrack final … where he 'll be lining up against the best speedway and grasstrack riders . |
| 11 | ‘ So he 'll be popping up to the palace with the rest of them , to pick up his medals . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know exactly what we have up there , or what stuff we are likely to be sending up in the next few years … but I 'll take side bets on orbital weapons , either ready or in the pipe-line . ’ |
| 13 | Although he was nine years old and would soon be moving up to the big school , Frankie was still frightened of the dark . |
| 14 | Jean had n't long passed her driving test and I tried to help by pointing out when she should be moving up through the gears . |
| 15 | This is one aspect that art historian and critic Deborah Cherry will be taking up in the next issue . |
| 16 | You 're supposed to be sitting up at the table . |
| 17 | By 2000 it will have passed both France and Britain , and will be nosing up on the real geriatrics , Germany and Sweden . |
| 18 | because if he put the bath right in there , I would be standing up at the end of the bath |
| 19 | She said , ‘ I wonder if Albert 'll be waving up on the line I would , if I was him . ’ |
| 20 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 21 | You 'll still be working up at the farm and I 'll be having my midday meals up there , same as I do now . |
| 22 | On that frozen trackway , however , I just stared at the grotesque thing lying in the snow ; the hand seemed to be thrusting up through the earth as if some ghoul was struggling to rise from its grave . |
| 23 | But there 's still a feeling of unease amid police suggestions that someone from the village could be covering up for the killer . |