Example sentences of "been [v-ing] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 2 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 3 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 4 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 5 | How long you been going up the Rainbow Centre ? |
| 6 | So how long you been going up the Rainbow Centre ? |
| 7 | While we talked Miss Sowerby had been cleaning up the patient with the head wound and , as the man prepared to leave , Reid cried to him , ‘ Head feel'um better ? ’ |
| 8 | Daylight would have been shining up the gallery from that east window . ’ |
| 9 | The latest entry , Quarterdeck with the long-awaited Desqview/X , however , has been stirring up the market with some high profile selling , backed by a positive reception from the industry . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , and they 've been reading up the stuff for years . |
| 11 | Now I want you to imagine you have been digging up the garden , ready for planting . |
| 12 | 20 years after Joan Main disappeared , police officers have been digging up the garden of her former husband 's house . |
| 13 | Now they 've been digging up the garden to make a channel for all electricity to go underground you see . |
| 14 | The judge has been summing up the case against Harper and the jury will consider the case against him tomorrow . |
| 15 | Teachers have been clearing up the mess and the headmaster says some lessons will be held in a nearby school later this week . |
| 16 | The Ranthambhore Foundation claims that reserve officials have also been covering up the scale of the problem for fear of being accused of failing in their duties . |