Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [v-ing] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been saving up towards a Christmas food hamper all year and now it 's arrived I 'm very disappointed with it . |
| 2 | They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 4 | Shout , they 'd shout something but er well since we 've been living up here , my mother used to give , the man used to come for the order for the grocery , the baker used to come round , the milk used to come round , they all used to come round at she 'd ha she did n't have go out for heavy loads of stuff to bring in it was all delivered , but when they started some new technique of er of ordering by computer , it 's going to come back to square one again you know , they 'll be delivering stuff in the same jolly old way hey . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , and they 've been reading up the stuff for years . |
| 7 | I 've been reading up on brochs , but when you 're actually there it 's really just the setting that 's so marvellous , and trying to imagine the sort of life they lived . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Never , but I 've been reading up on the history . ’ |
| 9 | I 've been picking up after them all night and all morning . |
| 10 | We 've been picking up some bad vibes on that guy . |
| 11 | Now they 've been digging up the garden to make a channel for all electricity to go underground you see . |
| 12 | Er , I 'm er the last er f five days or so , I 've been getting up less . |
| 13 | I 've been getting up three times . |
| 14 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 15 | ‘ I got a whole morning off in Bruges , and I guess I 've been making up for it ever since . ’ |
| 16 | I 've been rigging up a crush . |
| 17 | I was work la last week and I erm I got ta scrub my nails after done everything anyway like every , like after I made the sandwiches , I scrub my nails after I 've been washing up , scrub my nails so I was scrubbing them all day Saturday , last week and it still did n't come out . |
| 18 | Graham , when he came to pick me up , would stand back and burst into song , like that man in " Gigi " : " Why , you 've been growing up before my very eyes ! " |
| 19 | " Well , I 've been sitting up with one of my best sows . |
| 20 | Yeah , Miss , we 've been sitting up here , yeah , Miss , it 's ten to ! |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been waking up all night every night covered in sweat , just the whole bed dripping in it . |
| 22 | This seems erm , over the top , I erm , I do n't honestly think the provision of garages is absolutely essential in the light of the things that we 've been cutting up which are essential , erm , and in number two . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been walking up and down Fleet Street , if you want to know , ’ he said , ‘ to see whether I could still show my face in public . |
| 24 | We 've been going up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up . |
| 25 | Well as long as you do n't mind the high mileage cars but if they 've been going up and down the motorway all the time |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been working up north , ’ I smiled , convinced that for her the North began at Cannon Street . |
| 27 | When asked about it , he replied in his much-imitated growl , ‘ Fifteen years I 've been coming up here and they have to go and put this lump of concrete in the middle of the road . ’ |
| 28 | Oh yes very much so and we 've been these er lots secretaries and presidents and all miners and that they 've been coming up you know and er you had a chat with them and they put us do n't let this happen , do n't let that happen , and make sure that erm you know people do n't suffer and er oh it 's been quite a vast experience for us yeah . |
| 29 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 30 | Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree . |