Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ray , a Veterans Athletic Club road and cross-country runner , has been slowly picking up speed during his first six or seven years back in the sport and he 's now a top-ranked man . |
| 2 | By 1973 , after the last major milking herd had been dispersed , only 70 purebred ( or relatively purebred ) Gloucesters were registered , but the breed society was re-established and , with the help of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust , the breed 's numbers are slowly building up again . |
| 3 | There are so many tribes of Orcs that it is impossible to count them , especially as they are constantly breaking up and reforming under the leadership of new ambitious Orc Warlords . |
| 4 | Creatures that bestride the dividing line between amphibians and reptiles and between mammals and protomammals , are constantly turning up in the fossil record . |
| 5 | A typical Mercedes-owner would live in the hills of Buda , in one of the luxury apartment houses studded with satellite dishes that are constantly springing up . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ She appears when I am alone clearing up the bar . |
| 7 | ‘ But you are kinda running up a backlog in my favour account . ’ |
| 8 | Since the show 's inception in high-flying 1989 , attendance and sales had slipped in direct proportion to the misery on 57th Street and West Broadway but now things are apparently looking up . |
| 9 | The problem is not necessarily just the massive increase in numbers of walkers and climbers , but the fact that people are daily dreaming up new and more ridiculous things to do on the hills for fun . |
| 10 | British Gas has been swiftly building up its interests in the new developments to build up a new earnings stream and gain access to supplies . |
| 11 | Well they had a particularly bad time many of them lost absolutely everything and now they 're protesting cos the Lloyds people are only coming up with a nine hundred million pound rescue package that might give them some of them back half of what they invested . |
| 12 | In compulsory competitive tendering the Government are merely bringing up the rear and ensuring that local authorities that have not yet taken advantage of those techniques are brought up to the level of the best . |
| 13 | I am not going up to never |
| 14 | Heavy metal cretins , evil aliens , pan-global pop celebs and long-lost spaceships drifting forever in the airless void of deep space — yep , those ELDORADO plotlines are finally picking up . |
| 15 | At the moment I am just making up the numbers . |
| 16 | The boys are already splitting up and there is a very slight tension in the air . |
| 17 | Hospitals in Chicago , New York and New England are already queuing up to give Robodoc a job . |
| 18 | ‘ Initial work has focused on infrastructure improvements to track and bridges , but we are already drawing up detailed specifications for the locomotives and coaching stock , which will be introduced on this flagship service in the next few years , ’ he said . |
| 19 | His eyes are already lining up the entry point as he begins to ease off the front brake and apply handlebar and footrest pressure to steer the bike . |
| 20 | But over and above this is a terrible fact that despite what they are already putting up with , they 've got more they 've got the seventeen percent coming on their . |
| 21 | The houses of Old Odborough are already lighting up for the evening , but it is not yet dark enough to see the lights farther away . |
| 22 | ‘ And how do you like to spend your time , when you are not building up your business ? ’ |
| 23 | They are not building up vertically , they are in a constant ( albeit commonly intermittent ) state of change . |
| 24 | People often feel a sense of frustration that they are not moving up quickly enough when they join ICI . |
| 25 | One may well ask why , with such a generous offer , the chief executives of our generating companies are not queuing up at British Coal 's door . |
| 26 | I am concerned that many young people with learning difficulties are not taking up the assessment offered in their final year of education . |
| 27 | While we 're on the subject , 4AD are anxious to point out that the PIXIES are not splitting up and their album should be ready for next year , too . |
| 28 | That the government , local authorities and private companies are not queueing up to offer the resources to enable CABx to extend their work can only be due to the movement 's failure to make its point effectively . |
| 29 | What evidence is there that you are not living up to the appropriate standards ? |
| 30 | Since you are not connecting up at this stage , the rising main can be installed at a leisurely pace . |