Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pron] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 've accepted it as fate that people are building me up to knock me down . |
| 2 | ‘ You two are cheering me up too much and I ca n't stand the excitement . ’ |
| 3 | You 've been encouraging it up to now , on a few occasions up to now . |
| 4 | After a disastrous period of neglect when Glaswegians preferred Costa del Sol to this island of Bute abounding ‘ in pleasing scenes ’ , the ‘ stately hotels ’ and ‘ comfortable villas ’ , though older and a bit worn , are sprucing themselves up as the visitors , still almost exclusively Glaswegian , are coming back . |
| 5 | Hurt was celebrating an award which had been won by his TV series The Storyteller and was staggering around in a drunken haze when he turned on the paparazzi and yelled , ‘ Those bastards have been winding me up all night . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've been winding her up all day , ’ shouted Luke . |
| 7 | So , he had been winding her up about their sharing the same bed , amusing himself at her expense ! |
| 8 | The knack in dowsing is to be in the right frame of mind , not caring too much what answer you get , but at the same time having a clear idea of what you are looking for , otherwise you are opening yourself up to a very wide ‘ waveband ’ and things will get very confused . |
| 9 | Radio assault : A team from South Cleveland Hospital Radio are gearing themselves up to tackle a tough army assault course . |
| 10 | Good grief , no sooner has the final whistle blown than we here at Athletico Whaddon are gearing ourselves up ready for the hurly-burly of next season 's campaign . |
| 11 | ‘ We are gearing ourselves up for promotion on and off the field . |
| 12 | Countries like Sri Lanka , Japan and South Korea have already been gearing themselves up , fully aware of the importance of this tournament ’ . |
| 13 | They have put forward their nine-year coach Laurie Mains , and are winding themselves up to the point of wanting him as coach , first-up . |
| 14 | Has n't Mrs Abberley been keeping you up to date ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Have you been hatching something up with her — to stow me away ? ’ |
| 16 | When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead . |
| 17 | I am living it up with Survage at the Coq d'Or . |
| 18 | But the men are lapping it up — so are their floosies . |
| 19 | are snapping them up |
| 20 | I ca n't remember if I did cos I 've been picking them up . |
| 21 | While you 've been living it up in the lap of luxury — ’ |
| 22 | ’ I hear that George has been living it up a bit lately ? ’ |
| 23 | Yeah and she gets points for doing it do n't you , you 've been saving them up have n't you ? |
| 24 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 25 | You been saving it up have you darling ? |
| 26 | They had , it transpired , been training one up for some time . |
| 27 | Now that the shouting is over and the most homophobic piece of legislation for over a century is on the statute books , lesbians and gays are picking themselves up and asking if our involvement with local government was really worth the effort . |
| 28 | No UK broadcast date has been fixed , but Sky are picking it up for autumn. , In the meantime , Bart is appearing in bootlegged form on American dance flyers and T-shirts everywhere . |
| 29 | But what 's gon na happen is , these little mistakes are happening and are picking it up . |
| 30 | Remember , you 're building yourself up to peak performance on the day of the exam . |