Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why was Roger Seelig told by someone giving medical advice several months after his trial began that he was on the verge of a mental breakdown , yet last week he was roaring up the M4 in his Porsche to look after his two properties ? |
| 2 | She paddled in the shallow water for a few moments before joining Stephen where he was setting up the barbecue in a shaded spot . |
| 3 | As he was scrambling up the steepest bit , pulling himself up by the bracken , he heard something . |
| 4 | He was looking up the driveway , trying to make out the shape of the house through the trees . |
| 5 | They have taken Fergusson the teacher , while he was nailing up the lists , and stripped him and tarred him — ‘ Donald — you would not do that ! |
| 6 | It 's easy to say he was led up the garden path by a couple of pointed media questions , but I do n't accept that . |
| 7 | He stroked firmly , looked over his right shoulder , stroked some more , looked over his left , then he was reversing up the stomach-churning Pipeline elevator . |
| 8 | It was a stand-off , he was picking up the Yankee jargon . |
| 9 | It would be nice to think their affair had meant something to him , and after Seville he was picking up the pieces of his life and had found happiness with another woman . |
| 10 | But then the other man seemed to regain control of himself , for the next moment he was shinning up the rope as though he had just realised his life depended on it — quite literally ! |
| 11 | A question , it was , whether he was propping up the door , or the door was propping him ! |
| 12 | He was ripping up the ruined linoleum . |
| 13 | and I 'm not entirely sure , Marcus did phone me and say , at one point , when he was making up the mailing list , he 's had three hundred copies of that made of the extract and he was kind of you know , sniffing around for who to send them |
| 14 | He was heading up the President 's getaway operation at the Abbey . |
| 15 | He was lifting up the lamb 's head , pulling on its muzzle to make it bleat . |
| 16 | He had not tried , however , and now he was tying up the boat and expertly folding down the sails . |
| 17 | He was wiring up the main hatch above the hold , in such a way that showed he was certainly not an electrician by trade , with the intention of giving a mild electric shock to anyone who might try to get into it . |
| 18 | He was shovelling up the broken glass on to a piece of cardboard . |
| 19 | And he had this this erm casting of a plane you know he was cleaning up the edges gave the game away of course then . |