Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [v-ing] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't quite know , er morning always seems that much busier as regards food , so Ivan 's going up in the morning erm , you know why ?
2 Marie 's sitting up on the bed with a packet of fags .
3 Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’
4 And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage .
5 United were wobbling ; Hoddle was winding up for a big finish .
6 The lights went down further , and I guessed Kruger was working up to the big climax , whatever that was .
7 And he frets too that son Rob and daughter Heather are growing up with a part-time father .
8 Groups such as Families Against Intimidation and Terror , the Newry hostage support group , Enough is Enough , the Peace Train Movement and New Consensus in Northern Ireland are standing up against the people of violence so as to ensure that there is another approach and a different tactic .
9 The Youngs were standing up in the dining room , ready to go to bed .
10 Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky .
11 Group managing director Tom Hempenstall is moving up to the new post of chief executive .
12 Bookmakers Ladbrokes are catching up with the odds on races on four wheels instead of four legs and offering odds on Senna ( 11–8 ) and Prost ( 7–4 ) for the world championship during the week the cars were being loaded for the opening grand prix in Phoenix .
13 Mr you 'll spoi you 'll spoil us when I saw this tonight I thought we I got ta say something because Martin is coming up with the er same motion as it was last time , it was not much different so probably with the same reply 's got ta be made and that is that the Labour party is not the caring party , everyone here , I 'm sure the Liberals as well as the Conservatives care we are a caring party as much as you are and we are concerned , we are concerned about , we are concerned about
14 DOOR-to-door brooms and buckets seller Betterware is cleaning up in the recession .
15 RONALD Fraser 's In Search of a Past was published in 1984 , and Ralph Glasser 's Growing up in the Gorbals in 1986 .
16 Hasan was sitting up at the table , eating a large slice of toast .
17 Late in the night , towards moonset , Hazel was looking up from a cut where they were crouching to a little bank above .
18 Jordan is catching up with the Western world .
19 ‘ So old Boris is setting up as a lifesaver , is he ? ’
20 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 !
21 But Seb was struggling up from the table .
22 Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report .
23 Oh yes Jamie 's picking up at the weekend , that 's right .
24 At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school .
25 Gilbert and Frye were standing up against the glass panes of the reception area , staring out into the storm-ravaged night .
26 there 's just five days to go to the start of the new football season … it 's the big kick-off this Saturday … and both Swindon and Oxford were warming up at the weekend
27 there 's just five days to go to the start of the new football season … it 's the big kick-off this Saturday … and both Swindon and Oxford were warming up at the weekend
28 Buckinghamshire speedway ace Simon Wigg is gearing up for the new season with a new club … he 's signed up for Coventr
29 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 .
30 Though he wo n't be getting a title Tim is moving up in the world — he 's about to swap his modest semi in Winchester for the grandeur of Anne 's residence , Gatcombe Park , Glos .
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