Example sentences of "was [v-ing] up in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles could see at first-hand the tension that was building up in the vast depressing wastelands of the inner cities , where young people had no work , no ambition , no feeling of belonging , no pride in their surroundings — nothing , in fact , to get out of bed for in the mornings . |
| 2 | Nervous pressure was building up in the United team when Irwin put a 64th-minute corner kick deep into the heart of the Southampton penalty area . |
| 3 | But all that was happening was , the overflow pipe from the Koi quarters was partially blocked : this meant that an abnormally high head of water was building up in the main pool , bringing the level above the sealed junction between liner and blockwork . |
| 4 | When Bill was growing up in the Durham of the 1930s , memories of the Great Strike of 1926 were still sharp and vivid among the mining community . |
| 5 | Yeah cos er Jim had just come on duty and she was going up in the lift with somebody and they said please can we have five pounds , your mother 's just had her hair permed |
| 6 | This was not designer stubble , this was getting up in the morning and not being bothered . |
| 7 | There was no reason , however , to link the unrest that was brewing up in the country with the Kamalian dictator . |
| 8 | They were identical with their small upper windows , narrow porches and square bays , but it was obvious that the road was coming up in the world . |
| 9 | The big regatta dances in the huge grey tent down by the quay in Carrick were just beginning but there were so few days left of the holiday that Maggie preferred to spend them about the house chatting with Rose or her sisters around the fire or talking with Michael out in the front garden among his flowerbeds ; and sometimes during long breaks in the rain they would go out to where Moran was tidying up in the meadows . |
| 10 | It seems that Meg was washing up in the pantry yesterday when Mr Swinton came in from the shore as is his custom in the afternoons , and you were with him ! |
| 11 | John Habeshaw , Ph.D. , M.D. , one of the British scientists working on the AIDS virus and one of the country 's leading authorities on malignant lymphoma , was throwing up in the cloakroom . |
| 12 | Ronnie , 54 , hit the headlines when he thumped the mayor in the face after his civic car ran over Christmas lights he was stringing up in the centre of Frome , Somerset . |