Example sentences of "be [verb] up [prep] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team . |
| 5 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 8 | The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’ |
| 9 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 10 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 11 | Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham . |
| 12 | The embryo has been broken up into a number of regions whose development is largely independent of one another . |
| 13 | The procession had been broken up by a large number of black youths from Lewisham , Deptford and Brixton , waving Ethiopian flags . |
| 14 | The raffle or lottery is a form of random sample — in its simplest form the identical little numbered tickets are shaken up in a hat and drawn out one by one by someone with their eyes closed . |
| 15 | Brown , a former member of hit teen band New Edition , fears he has been caught up in a long-running feud between his former band 's road crew and one of America 's top street gangs . |
| 16 | Women in Hinduism are caught up in a paradoxical view of the female , where the divine can be feminine , yet women are profoundly mistrusted . |
| 17 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 18 | The two are caught up in a desperate race to save their women — knowing that the rescue of one means the destruction of the other . |
| 19 | Sometimes vulnerable old people are caught up in a more general crisis such as a major road or rail accident , or other disaster . |
| 20 | If migrating birds are caught up in a storm , or blown off course , it can be disastrous for , even undisturbed these vast journeys stretch them to the limit . |
| 21 | It 's a fearful world where even the goodies have a strangeness about them , as they too are caught up in a world of little people , strange animals and flying objects . |
| 22 | Workers are caught up in a form of ‘ prisoners ’ dilemma' . |
| 23 | All of this will have been picked up from a multitude of cues within the family — coyness in speaking about religion , sentimental talk at Christmas-time that equates religion with belief in Santa Claus , contempt for the hypocrisy ( real or imagined ) of religious officials , and the equation of religion with fanaticism and political reaction . |
| 24 | BEIRUT — Syrian forces freed a Lebanese air force pilot who had been picked up by a gunboat after ditching his plane in the Mediterranean yesterday , Reuter reports . |
| 25 | Within minutes he had been picked up by a patrol car on the M5 in Gloucestershire . |
| 26 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
| 27 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 28 | However , my corresponding Ego fantasy is of losing my wits to such an extent that I am unable to work ; I am living in a filthy bedsit and the floor is strewn with pieces of paper that I am unable to make sense of , final demands which have not been paid , dirty clothes , plants which have fallen over , unwashed plates and mugs — and I am curled up in a foetal ball , wishing the world would go away ! |
| 29 | But this information is also readily available if the ferret is fitted with a transmitting device within its collar and the signals from this are picked up on a hand-held receiver . |
| 30 | In The Lost Ship , for instance , a couple of merchant navy apprentices , overboard by accident from a tanker , are picked up by a sinister couple planning to snatch gold from a wreck on a Caribbean island , and in Horseshoe Reef a similar young couple is rescued from shipwreck by a strange , isolated family with criminal intentions . |