Example sentences of "be [v-ing] up [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I recko , I reckon they must of been paid for that because Maury has n't been phoning up and saying oh you have n't paid it ! |
| 2 | The crowds are building up and doing things the American way . |
| 3 | Since the 1970s competitive pressures , particularly from Japan , have been building up and like so many other American and European companies , Kodak has adopted Total Quality Management [ TQM ] processes which the Japanese themselves used to achieve their success . |
| 4 | Learn to recognise which areas are toning up and reducing . |
| 5 | I know the poeple on Blackbird Leys are ganging up and doing it themselves , taking the law into their own hands , they 'll do it if there is n't anything done |
| 6 | It 's dark , the Commandos are forming up and preparing to move off . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's pretty straightforward most of the time , but he will nip darned hard when you 're tacking up and mean it ! |
| 8 | But afterwards , when you 're packing up and taking equipment out to the car , you suddenly find yourself surrounded by pupils and teachers firing questions at you . |
| 9 | White families are selling up and leaving ; we know several . |
| 10 | So with it being conference time , we can get lots of companies who are turning up and giving conference presentations , lots of academic types . |
| 11 | As this Monday dawns and the debris of St Valentine 's Day starts to fade in the nation 's flower-vases and chocolate-boxes , some of us are waking up and wondering where we are , that almost-forgotten sensation of the wild-oats years . |
| 12 | The " ladder " is in fact a stairway ( perhaps like that of the ziggurat ) , since angels are going up and down it ( compare Jesus ' words to Nathanael in John 1:51 ) . |
| 13 | Even students are wising up and getting in on loving the environment . |
| 14 | All over the world we are rising up and refusing the exploited identity for which we were conditioned . |
| 15 | Well there are problems in the sense that we 've got to do it , in terms of management of the County Council , the control of the capital programme , no I do n't think so , because if , if there was no control on it , you would n't now be picking up and saying ‘ hey we 've got to do something about it ’ . |
| 16 | Perhaps a retired person , with no family can honestly say ‘ Right , I 'm selling up and moving to the Isle of Skye . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm getting up and coming downstairs . |
| 18 | Erm certainly I think all of our quarry , the quarry , I think we were overwhelmed with the support because it was really in our place that the dispute started and a lot of other people who I 'd spoken to you know they they were amazed at the support we received and , seemed to be the shyer the people you know the , some of the lads they never spoke much at lodge meetings , but after a while they 'd be getting up and saying their pieces and , you know I think it 's just because you knew you had backing , and people helping and urging you on , advising you , and the union helping and you know they leant over backwards in various fields to help us . |
| 19 | I never dreamed I 'd actually be sitting up and taking nourishment so soon — and enjoying it . ’ |
| 20 | I mean i i i the these are individual peasants from a village who are standing up and taking the lead in criticizing landlords etcetera but , but they , they are not the Party cadres coming in from outside . |
| 21 | New initiatives aimed at attracting nurses back to work are springing up and developing throughout the UK . |
| 22 | Some people were waking up and seeing through the disguise humanity had constructed around its deities . |
| 23 | The Councillors were getting up and shouting . |
| 24 | and er , they were coming up and went across to get a drink of lemonade and it was a bloody hot day , really , you know a midsummer day and erm , we went across to this kind of cafe place that 's opposite the station and I saw two men with rubber boots on |
| 25 | And then they were giving up and going to America , they were going They had a sister . |
| 26 | Breakfast was difficult , bringing with it the aroma of kippers and the sight of poached eggs quivering on plates , but by the time our lunch flask was delivered , people were perking up and looking forward to the task ahead . |
| 27 | They were jumping up and putting their paws up so they I went up back upstairs and they sk tried to skid up but they were going so quickly that one of them went down the step again . |
| 28 | ‘ He were firin' up and steamin' an engine when it happened . |
| 29 | And then , because we admired his beauty so much , someone would often say of him , as we were sizing up and judging the night 's array of talent , one of us would quietly say , The Price Is Right . |
| 30 | Why were n't they off photographing the three hundred bodies that the Americans were digging up and dumping into a mass grave ? |