Example sentences of "were [v-ing] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We told him that you had been out all night and that you were catching up on some sleep . |
| 2 | Long before the century closed , pressures were building up for constitutional change and for more profound changes in the social and economic system itself . |
| 3 | Because of this delay in time , it is perhaps an exaggeration to say that the expansion of English maritime activity between 1460 and 1520 prepared the way for seizing opportunities which were opening up in many parts of the world ( 63 , p.163 ) . |
| 4 | with a s as we were picking up from last week , a c a c in , in a sense that land reform is , is already taking place , there is this sort of groundswell from the masses that to move beyond the , the moderate policy and that is then formalized in the May the fourth directive which marks like the return to land reform going back to and then y y y y you 've got the implementation of that May the fourth directive and then out of a very difficult position in nineteen forty seven when they , they are under attack from the Kuomintang and i in the spring of nineteen forty seven is actually taken by Kuomintang . |
| 5 | And as if the elements were ganging up on defenceless human beings , half the neighbourhood around the bridge was woken up at 3 o'clock on the morning of Sunday , 10 March by shouts of ‘ Fire ! ’ as a stable next to Sheppards ' workshops went up in flames . |
| 6 | And winger Franz Carr ruined two promising build-ups with poor crosses when Deane and Hodges were lining up for clear strikes at goal . |
| 7 | The NFHA reported that in 1989 the rents of tenants in work had already reached 21 per cent of disposable income and single elderly people were paying up to 35 per cent of their incomes in rents . |
| 8 | And so we were going up from that price to that price . |
| 9 | As The Beatles rose inexorably , so did Smith and by the time ‘ his mates ’ were splitting up in 1970 , he was approached to take over the editorship of NME . |
| 10 | Pain and need were rising up in equal measure to swamp him , and he knew he did n't have what it took to turn away from her . |
| 11 | Some of those attending were travelling up to 30 miles and acknowledged that they suffered some physical and mental fatigue but could make no suggestion as to how to avoid it . |
| 12 | This approximately halves the amount of money available for discretionary spending , even though the White Paper accepts that only twenty-one English councils were spending up to 80 per cent of their S137 limit and two-thirds of S137 spending was an economic development . |
| 13 | Openings for quarrels were bubbling up in several places in the 1730s . |
| 14 | By the end of the war , cavity magnetrons were emitting up to 3.5 million watts of power at stable wavelengths . |
| 15 | I were tidying up at half past six this morning . |
| 16 | " I think I might be falling for you , you know , " he said as they were drinking up at eleven . |
| 17 | David Cordery , operations manager for Oxford , told The Bookseller that the robbery happened at about 5.30 p.m. when two staff were cashing up at one of the shop 's three tills . |
| 18 | Residents eating locally-grown vegetables were consuming up to 11 times the maximum amount of lead regarded as safe by the World Health Organization . |
| 19 | I quoted reports of the quick friendships which were springing up between Burmese villagers and the BOR , and included the following paragraphs : |
| 20 | On recovery nights , when subjects were allowed to sleep undisturbed , they took more REM sleep than usual , as if they were making up to some extent for the amount lost . |
| 21 | After a century or so of political apathy , Hong Kong 's young people were making up for lost time . |
| 22 | The nun realised that now the child had no one to protect her , some of the other children were making up for lost time . |
| 23 | It suggested that millions of US children were receiving up to 35 per cent of their entire lifetime dose of carcinogens by the age of five , and calls for cuts in pesticide use , including the phasing out of all those classed by the EPA as carcinogens . |