Example sentences of "be [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training . |
| 2 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 4 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 5 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 6 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
| 7 | The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team . |
| 8 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 9 | Fortunately , some experience had been building up on the European continent , in Holland in particular , with DMUs which had very reliable and cost-effective engines and transmissions . |
| 10 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 11 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 12 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |
| 13 | With the tent flap closed , the heat had been building up under the canvas . |
| 14 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 15 | Towards the end of the 19th century , a crisis had been building up over the names of organic compounds . |
| 16 | While his loving note helped to sooth her misgivings , it was difficult to control the inner turmoil which had been building up over the months . |
| 17 | These were Wilson and Castle 's response to the ‘ unofficial strike problem ’ which had been building up over the '60s but had acquired particular prominence in 1968 with the publication of the Donovan Commission 's report . |
| 18 | For Alfred Watkins , it was not a sudden flash of inspiration from the beyond but something which had been building up within the deeper levels of his being throughout a lifetime of contact with his native countryside . |
| 19 | Pressures for change had been building up within the legislature for some time and these were to be given added impetus by the events surrounding the resignation of President Nixon . |
| 20 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 21 | The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’ |
| 22 | China has been cheered up by the difficulties the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe face as they try to change their old communist ways . |
| 23 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 24 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 25 | That there 's more to Normski than his manic public persona is obvious here , with the music playing , and the beaming photos of himself and Janet Street-Porter that are propped up through the house . |
| 26 | Toilet seats are propped up against the wall , in the unlikely event that someone might want to buy them in a country where hygiene is pathological . |
| 27 | The home-help walked down the road towards Marie , wheeling her bike which had been propped up against the curb . |
| 28 | The shift , if that 's what it is , mirrors the way shipments have been shaping up during the three months since they started . |
| 29 | The Campbells ' rooms had been given up by the officers of the household for the visitors . |
| 30 | Most of your belongings are stacked up in the hall and the bedroom . |