Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 2 | She will know , furthermore , of the furore brewing in every pub and office in the land , ever since Allan Lamb , who plays for England , bravely explained to my colleagues what Wasim and Whacker — sorry , Waqar — have been getting up to . |
| 3 | The shift , if that 's what it is , mirrors the way shipments have been shaping up during the three months since they started . |
| 4 | They have been taking up to 100,000 salmon and sea-trout a year and probably many more if the truth were known . |
| 5 | For the province 's future Olympic hopefuls have been brushing up on skills both on and off the sports fields . |
| 6 | The Cavaliers and Roundheads have been stocking up for another season , re-enacting the English Civil War . |
| 7 | In fact , such series have been building up around us gradually , until they have now become a major part of the market . |
| 8 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 9 | Later generations of women have been catching up with their male contemporaries as far as the acquisition of paper qualifications is concerned . |
| 10 | It is also particularly difficult to discover your place in a speech after you have been looking up at the audience . |
| 11 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 12 | ‘ Since the late Sixties , ’ says Richard , ‘ the women have become more active and have been standing up for themselves , as is only right , but men have become more passive . |
| 13 | But for about a year certain pieces of late Roman coinage and art have been cropping up in unexpected places in the international market . |
| 14 | as if they did n't have enough problems already , green turtles from Florida to Australia have been turning up with horrific cancerous tumours . |
| 15 | A number of unused tickets , from not only the BCR have been turning up with a date in the year 1933 . |
| 16 | If you want to study the most refined version of clothes-talk , just look at all the elegant women who have been turning up in court recently . |
| 17 | It serves 38 million vending cups a year , most of which have been ending up in bins . |
| 18 | Welcome back:Thousands of new Oxford students have been signing up for anything from scuba diving to tiddlywinks , in this year 's freshers ' fair . |
| 19 | Torrent and Pastoral have been giving up to 7.5t/ha ( 3t/acre ) , says Nick Matthews of Chichester merchant Bartholomews . |
| 20 | The marquees have been going up for the Hay on Wye festival of Literature which begins tonight . |
| 21 | But yields on long-term bonds have been edging up since the middle of March , a sign that investors expect inflation to rise . |
| 22 | Do not simply give a list of the work you have been doing up to date but show how the experience you have gained in the other job has directly fitted you to do the new one . |
| 23 | For this I gave them about 30p , which is rather a lot , & since then they have been running up to me when they see me , offering to polish up my briefcase etc . |
| 24 | Over the past few years galleries have been springing up in Berlin 's Fasanenstrasse and its surrounding district , making it the ideal starting point for a gallery tour . |
| 25 | Hundreds of dead dolphins have been washing up on shores in the Mediterranean recently , leaving scientists puzzled as to the cause . |