Example sentences of "been [v-ing] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 2 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 3 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 4 | Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree . |
| 5 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Quite a number of our staff live in Wimbledon and some practical jokers have been putting up the other Graham Hadley 's pamphlets , ’ he says . |