Example sentences of "like [v-ing] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I really enjoy my job and especially like keeping up to date with all the modern styles , ’ says the enthusiastic young stylist from Hampshire . |
| 2 | Ken playing Rodney , Hugh Paddick as Charles , two frightfully , frightfully Mayfair types , doing ridiculous things together like dressing up as red Indians when they took a canoeing holiday . |
| 3 | A holiday-maker had once described the ascent to him as ‘ like going up to Heaven ’ . |
| 4 | It did n't used to but when I , I , I , I feel like going up to these girls and saying for god 's sake take that thing out of your mouth . |
| 5 | It 's got to be like cuddling up to a cushion as well as doing that terrible , animal thing . |
| 6 | ‘ Sounds like growing up to me . |
| 7 | Gregory himself thought he had married Rachel when he became a monk ; but being pope was like waking up in the night to find oneself in the arms of Liah . |
| 8 | It was like waking up after a long , long nightmare , but it was not safe at all to be awake . |
| 9 | After the treatment , I did feel refreshed rather like waking up after a good night 's sleep . |
| 10 | I knew it was n't going to be easy , as it was so very much his world , but I realized I must do it soon , because the longer I delayed , the longer I felt I would go on doing so — like facing up to the ashes . |
| 11 | If you really do n't feel like coming up for a smear at that time , that 's fine and we 'll understand why . |
| 12 | It looks like boiling up into a battle in the athletics bullring between Christie , Burrell and fellow American Dennis Mitchell , plus Namibia 's Frankie Fredericks . |
| 13 | Nothing like making up for lost time , she thought to herself with relish . |
| 14 | Last Saturday Kilmarnock humbled them at Ibrox , and basement boys Dundee looked like following up with another sensation at Dens Park yesterday . |
| 15 | Last Saturday Kilmarnock humbled them at Ibrox , and basement boys Dundee looked like following up with another sensation at Dens Park yesterday . |
| 16 | Anabelle felt like curling up in a ball and plugging her ears until they all went away — and she would have , too , if she had thought it would do any good . |