Example sentences of "were [v-ing] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and his trusty assistant , Detective Sergeant William Bird , were speeding up the same road . |
| 2 | Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies , but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized , not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat , but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations . |
| 3 | He looked unbelieving and said , ‘ But surely you remember when we were going down the eighth , you were coming up the ninth , and I waved and your wife waved back , and then you waved . ’ |
| 4 | In a moment the two of them were running up the wide curved stairs . |
| 5 | THOSE who insisted that the Queen pay income tax were barking up the wrong tree . |
| 6 | But their best opportunity for independence came , and went , soon after the first world war , when Britain and France were carving up the defunct Ottoman empire . |