Example sentences of "be [v-ing] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew that the howling wind would be whipping up the downfall into deep drifts on the exposed high moor . |
| 2 | " To be bossing up the school . |
| 3 | TWO heartbroken families may be bringing up the wrong babies . |
| 4 | ‘ They 'll be bringing up the squares at any minute . |
| 5 | But if they were supposed to be keeping up the fiction about being happily married — a second honeymoon , indeed ! — then it was going to look a bit odd , if not downright peculiar , if he did n't spend his nights here in the cottage . |
| 6 | But we will be keeping up the pressure . ’ |
| 7 | You could be opening up the way to new prosperity . |
| 8 | then it went a bit further and stop , and then we used to be walking up the , but that were it , half a crown |
| 9 | Mind you , I mean there 's no point they 'll be looking up the first word of each of these |
| 10 | This time he seems to be picking up the signals of some approaching hostility towards him . |
| 11 | ‘ You wo n't be paying for inappropriate placements and you wo n't be picking up the bill for carers later . |
| 12 | Ninety per cent of people in residential care in Newcastle are on income support and the average time to death or discharge in residential care is three years , so his department will be picking up the whole burden by the third year . |
| 13 | We should n't be picking up the tab . |
| 14 | I can see that you 'll soon be picking up the reins . |
| 15 | What you 'll find , you 'll find in here that it 'll just be picking up the budgies mainly . |
| 16 | You could be passing up the chance to obtain the most loving , loyal friend anyone could wish for . |
| 17 | Socialist Worker appeared to be soaking up the potential trade union readership , while the audience of students in revolt could dwindle — although with the formation of the Revolutionary Socialists Student Federation there were hopes that the ‘ new vanguard ’ might survive to detonate the proletarian uprising . |
| 18 | When the time of Hasan 's Occultation came , they would , presumably , be swarming up the drainpipes waving scimitars and carrying on like a thwarted group of reporters from the Sun . |
| 19 | Do not take it for granted that Accounts will be paying up the way you want or that suppliers will stay with you if they do n't get paid on time . |
| 20 | This evening seems to be going up the spout . |
| 21 | I do n't know much about most things , but I do know whether people will be going up the Alps or not . ’ |
| 22 | I reckon those people 'll be going up the wrong way . |
| 23 | Because I shall be going up the town |
| 24 | Of course it was just possible that something had delayed them ; they might even now be hurrying up the steep incline to the station . |
| 25 | This is followed by pushing the arms above the head , so that the cross breaks and the student appears to be holding up the ceiling . |
| 26 | He 's concerned that banking attitudes may be holding up the recovery . |
| 27 | And she knew that her male colleagues would be propping up the bar of a public house , by eleven o'clock . |
| 28 | She would appear at the gates of the Waaf Site about 10.45pm , armed with a torch half the size of the Flamborough lighthouse , when upwards of a dozen couples would be propping up the fence saying goodnight . |
| 29 | He 'll be breaking up the twentieth and how long you on holiday , fortnight ? |
| 30 | But , by now , he would have had to be moving up the ladder , getting experience of command . |