Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] up [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Gas has been swiftly building up its interests in the new developments to build up a new earnings stream and gain access to supplies . |
| 2 | They 're just growing up you know . |
| 3 | But they 're now ca , they 're now catching up they 're now putting on the label its proper name . |
| 4 | As we go to press , however , LEAs are still drawing up their formulae and submitting them to the DES for approval . |
| 5 | ‘ You are still working up your field material ? ’ asked Everard Bone politely . |
| 6 | When you are really fed up you can always play into the soothing hands of time . |
| 7 | Some employers , faced by likely future compulsion ( under EC law ) to include part-timers within occupational pension schemes where full-timers are eligible , are now taking up their rights under the Social Security Act 1986 to provide money purchase ( rather than ‘ final salary'/ ‘ defined benefits ’ ) contracted-out occupational pension schemes or COMPS ( see Ward , 1990 , pp. 37–9 ) targeted at those occupational groups which include preponderantly female lower-paid staff . |
| 8 | And over 4½ million people are now building up their own personal pensions . |
| 9 | It 's alright , I 'm just going up one up here . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've got to go , anyway ; I think I 'm probably holding up our barbecue . ’ |
| 11 | We are consequently eating up our energy resources . |
| 12 | ‘ We were so fed up we did n't even push the beds together for our wedding night . |
| 13 | As Charles II 's reign progressed , they were gradually to give up their earlier hopes of remodelling the established church into a closer conformity to European Protestantism , and to lend their support instead to the nonconformist struggle for the right to worship outside its boundaries . |
| 14 | She slipped her arm through mine , I picked up my rifle from the corner near to the band , who were now packing up their instruments . |
| 15 | Neff has been steadily building up its reputation for fine cookers and electrical appliances since the company revolutionised cooking methods with the introduction of its ‘ Circotherm ’ oven in the 1970s . |
| 16 | Glascoed has been steadily gearing up its operations in bigger ways , too . |
| 17 | Det Sgt Stimpson said : ‘ She has tried very hard to stop him stealing but now she is so fed up she just wants to move away and try to make a fresh start in a new home . ’ |
| 18 | He 's so hyped up it 's unbelievable . |
| 19 | Lady Helen Taylor , daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Kent , who is just giving up her job as a Soho art dealer , and her husband , West End art dealer Tim Taylor , have traded in their black 10-year-old Porsche sportscar for a K-registered £27,500 family-sized black Range Rover . |
| 20 | I know it 's , it 's just turning up its toes . |
| 21 | I 'm not entirely sure Chairman that Whitehall 's ever made up its mind on anything |
| 22 | Sue is still building up her range and is willing to stock new qualities when in sufficient demand , so she likes to know what her customers want . |
| 23 | While Keegan is still making up his mind on players some of them are already in the shop window . |
| 24 | Buckminsterfullerene — that football-shaped 60 carbon-atomed molecular denizen of stardust and soot — is rapidly yielding up its chemical secrets . |
| 25 | After protecting herself during her travelling years by dressing like a boy , she is temporarily hanging up her hat and exploring her sensual , feminine side . |
| 26 | He is also taking up his case with the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 27 | The hospital 's now stepping up its own security measures . |
| 28 | That bloke is seriously moving up my list of most irritable shits . |
| 29 | CA 's business is being hit by the slowdown in mainframe sales , while Sun , with its high-end multi-processor servers now on the market , is keen to gain more credibility in the commercial world and is currently building up its portfolio of commercial tools , migration/ rightizing software and commercial applications . |
| 30 | Sun Microsystems Inc is quietly working up its own handheld communicating computer effort aimed at the mass market , according to the New York Times . |