Example sentences of "as i [be] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does this mean that as I am going up in the lift , I see it expanding ? ’ |
| 2 | Correctly surmising that theirs was the room with the broken bolt hanging from the door , he entered it just as I was catching up with him . |
| 3 | I did not wipe the offending word off the blackboard , but as I was packing up my books and papers at the end of the class , a girl got up and without a word erased it , to a scattering of applause . |
| 4 | So if you were going at sixty four , you know , about a millimetre before the sign you have to be going at fifty five a millimetre after the sign er and you can be pulled up by a State Trooper as I was pulled up , quite unjustly I felt . |
| 5 | As I was going up to my cell it all hit me — am I ever going to get my daughter back ? |
| 6 | As I was walking up to his house two young bearded men in jeans and sweaters got out of a car and ran towards me . |
| 7 | I can not think what came over me as I was brought up chapel like you but unfortunately my father was a miner and not a grocer . |
| 8 | As I was brought up on a farm I 'm used to working with my hands and in all weathers . |
| 9 | And now , just as I was giving up all hope … |
| 10 | It was expensive , but as I was giving up my holiday I saw no reason why the department should n't pay . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , I remember now , ’ she said : ‘ I did have one dream , just as I was waking up . |
| 12 | And no , the man who walked past me as I was running up that long hill at 15 miles did n't help much either . |
| 13 | But as I was coming up to London to work in more formal circumstances I selected my new skirt , which is somewhat smoother and less worn , together with my new pullover — oh , no , how odd , this is my old pullover — but — ah , now I remember , yes , worn over a cotton shirt — which again is something smooth . |
| 14 | The choir , and all about it , and the church I rather enjoyed because as as I were growing up most of the p people that came were the business people and the people that were conscientious towards that area , St. John 's . |