Example sentences of "'s [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's ten years old and she 's sucking up her clothes . |
| 2 | Well it 's speeding up to there accelerating and it 's |
| 3 | It 's speeding up again . |
| 4 | That 's , that 's , that 's a , that 's a straight line , and you say it 's speeding up ? |
| 5 | That seems to imply that , I do n't think it 's speeding up , does n't it ? |
| 6 | There used to be a well here long ago , but it 's filled up now — the men do n't use it any more . |
| 7 | Maxine said oh he 's struggling up there look . |
| 8 | Directly in front of the house beyond a huge weeping beech tree so big it 's propped up with telegraph poles in concrete . |
| 9 | So to find out how much you pay for , how much actual energy has been used up , you think it , again going back to the water , if we have a big tank full of water and we 're using it up , this time in terms of power , erm if we have something that 's using up water at the rate of say six gallons a minute and someone 's going to charge you for your water . |
| 10 | That 's how much memory you had , to start with , three hundred and twenty thousand bytes and that 's how much you 've got left , two hundred and eight thousand bytes i if you 've got a spreadsheet in memory so it 's using up some of the memory . |
| 11 | And er I always remember the lawyer who was acting on behalf of the union er said to these blacklegs , How would it be possible for you to see it though your window who was throwing the bricks seeing that the windows are so black and filthy you ca n't see the curtains that 's hanging up from the outside ? |
| 12 | Your dressing-gown 's hanging up behind the door ! |
| 13 | And again you leave it standing a certain time and you pour off your whey and take your curd in to a muslin and er hang it up and again more whey 'll drain off cos it 's hanging up . |
| 14 | It 's alright , it 's hanging up . |
| 15 | Merger with the Southampton based British Seafarers was not merely a convenience , but a necessity , and Wilson , writing in his journal The Seaman exulted that " Shinwell 's patched up old derelict has run bow against the rock of the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union and ignominiously gone to the bottom " Later he gave his own version of how Shinwell had flattered the susceptible French into leaving to him the day-today business of the Glasgow branch and poisoned the minds of the members against him . |
| 16 | She 's ripped up everything in her bedroom and she 's thrown milk all over the kitchen . ’ |
| 17 | The caravanning life is n't all it 's painted up to be . |
| 18 | It 's make up your mind time . |
| 19 | Well I 'm not the only one , this is the whole point , I 'm not the only one , most everyone here 's rang up about it . |
| 20 | If people are going to prepare to spend the rest of their lives together , they should be discussing much more important things than concepts , like forever , they should be discussing , what happens if it 's splits up ? |
| 21 | He 's kneeling up |
| 22 | No he 's kneeling up . |
| 23 | ah well this is it love , there 's load up here |
| 24 | He 's parading up and down in it . |
| 25 | If the surgeon though is unable to perform his duties properly , for example if H I V infects his brain and he 's demented or he 's coughing up tubercle bacilli because of pneumonia , of course these are extreme complications , and there 's no way a hospital would allow a surgeon to continue to operate under such circumstances . |
| 26 | It 's building up to critical . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ That storm still looks as if it 's building up to me , ’ said Jimmy . |
| 28 | Without trying looking very heavily at these type of sales , where savings plans have been sold for future mortgages , erm , the clients are left thinking it 's building up money for their , for their deposit , for their legal fees , and it guarantees them a mortgage at sometime in the future . |
| 29 | Er , that 's totalled up three weeks . |
| 30 | I hear he 's given up his lecturing . |