Example sentences of "was [v-ing] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we did take some er legal advice on it and we were told that it was not illegal , erm I mean we think it 's highly immoral erm , but we were told it was not illegal , because they did not actually use the er the redundancy money did not come out of the fund , only this enhanced pension etcetera which was using up the , the surplus and we were told |
| 2 | A monster 's mum was hanging up the washing in the garden when she suddenly yelled at him : |
| 3 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 4 | Used to the my whole down there than it was hanging up the , really I mean |
| 5 | You see the tractor driving it , there 's the load , this was gathering up the hay as it went along and it tipped it over and we had to make the loads you see . |
| 6 | Folkestone was a pocket borough of the Rothschilds , Southend was falling under the control of the Guinness family , Plymouth was learning to love the Astors , and Samuel Roberts was building up the influence in Sheffield that was to provide a seat for his family until 1966 . |
| 7 | They have taken Fergusson the teacher , while he was nailing up the lists , and stripped him and tarred him — ‘ Donald — you would not do that ! |
| 8 | Labour said it was stepping up the pressure for an urgent Commons statement from the Chancellor to clarify which areas of spending were ruled in or out from the Treasury review . |
| 9 | The howling growling blood-drenched boy was eating up the foreman . |
| 10 | She was walking up the Mound to do the lunch shift at the Right and Wrong . |
| 11 | The other day , one lunchtime in fact , I was walking up the Farringdon Road . |
| 12 | David was walking up the garden path , half an hour earlier than expected . |
| 13 | No , I was walking up the ramps and it was ripped out of my hand actually . |
| 14 | She opened the heavy oak doors and the dogs swept past her bounding across the drive to their master who was opening up the car boot to remove his luggage . |
| 15 | Here he studied under Otto Wallach , who was opening up the chemistry of terpenes natural products important as flavours and fragrances . |
| 16 | As Hennessy was opening up the grey lockers at the end of the room , Donaldson spelt Bobo again . |
| 17 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 18 | He was wiring up the main hatch above the hold , in such a way that showed he was certainly not an electrician by trade , with the intention of giving a mild electric shock to anyone who might try to get into it . |
| 19 | Victoria has slipped from that part of the head where pressing thoughts gather , taking with her a lot of the baggage that was cluttering up the hallways . |
| 20 | He was quite near Philip now and was climbing up the bank towards the spot where Philip had thrown the stone . |
| 21 | Suddenly I was climbing up the long ladder of the North pier , the rucksack being roped afterwards . |
| 22 | She was picking up the knack . |
| 23 | Susan , an unwonted flush on her pale cheeks , was picking up the wet things out of the grate . |
| 24 | She was having to repeat herself , and even then Lucy was picking up the wrong costume or completely mistaking what had been said . |
| 25 | It was a stand-off , he was picking up the Yankee jargon . |
| 26 | It would be nice to think their affair had meant something to him , and after Seville he was picking up the pieces of his life and had found happiness with another woman . |
| 27 | He was looking up the driveway , trying to make out the shape of the house through the trees . |
| 28 | The van would arrive every evening to give food to the homeless living on the streets and she was serving up the soup when she saw a man sitting in the doorway . |
| 29 | As he was scrambling up the steepest bit , pulling himself up by the bracken , he heard something . |
| 30 | By this time Marty was scrambling up the ladder , and in our relief we were convulsed with laughter . |