Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I see you 've been checking up on me . ’ |
| 3 | The double volume , Ogwen & Carneddau , will hopefully be in the shops by Easter ; Llanberis , at the time of writing , has much of the text complete , thanks to Iwan Arfon Jones , and Paul Williams has been rounding up all the loose ends . |
| 4 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 5 | For a while now the narrow house has been filling up with medical paraphernalia , with doctoring tackle . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's absolute rubbish to suggest I 've been even a confidante while his marriage has been breaking up . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ There is evidence that the market in pubs , hotels and restaurants has been picking up — we believe it bottomed out six months ago — and that is another welcome move in bringing purchasers out again , ’ he said . |
| 8 | How is he to measure it against ‘ Look before you leap ’ , ‘ Care for your parents ’ , and such other imperatives as he has been picking up on the way ? |
| 9 | The recession has clearly presented good buying opportunities to Prospect Industries though Philip Wilbraham denies he is a vulture purchaser who has been picking up bargains on the cheap . |
| 10 | One exception has been Dean Hodgson , a neat and conscientious opener who has been picking up where he left off the season before last . |
| 11 | Yes because previous to this year , erm the R C E has been picking up a proportion of their costs . |
| 12 | The Agnes has been picking up various cargoes from North African and some West African ports . |
| 13 | The Geoprobe work has been picking up , and there are strong prospects for site investigation work for property management companies and businesses needing risk assessments , such as banks and insurance companies . |
| 14 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 15 | IBM has been counting up its hangers-on and finds that it currently has some 40 OEMs doing things like boards and systems with the PowerPC chip . |
| 16 | The egg has been gleaming up at me , cold and slippery as an oyster , daring me to eat it . |
| 17 | Australian Mutual Provident has been building up its stake in Pearl for the last two years . |
| 18 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 19 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 20 | They perhaps take a little longer than anticipated , so when they eventually arrive an hour later than expected , the anxiety has been building up , and I am in a steamy temper . |
| 21 | Davies , who missed the Lions tour to rest a pelvic injury , has been building up his upper body strength and Widnes , 12-1 shots for the Stones Bitter title , will feel the benefit . |
| 22 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
| 23 | However , although it is the ideal course of action for John — allowing him to take advantage of some of the excellent schemes around at the moment as well as releasing cash that has been building up in his home over the years — he should look out for excessive costs that a remortgage can incur . |
| 24 | And then she said : ‘ Mebbe he 's one of that gang that has been holding up grocery stores . ’ |
| 25 | The Dark Ones are demanding , but he has been bearing up remarkably . |
| 26 | Dawn has been eyeing up her own customers as well as the shoppers who frequent rival stores to come up with an in-vogue verdict on local tastes . |
| 27 | The station has been converted to burn confiscated marijuana which has been piling up in the warehouses of the local police forces . |
| 28 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 29 | You can see the cloud that brought today 's snow has been feeding up into the country from northern France and it will continue to do so for at least the next day or so . |
| 30 | The judge has been summing up the case against Harper and the jury will consider the case against him tomorrow . |