Example sentences of "'ve be [v-ing] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years . |
| 2 | I 've been saving up towards a Christmas food hamper all year and now it 's arrived I 'm very disappointed with it . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 5 | I 've been reading up on brochs , but when you 're actually there it 's really just the setting that 's so marvellous , and trying to imagine the sort of life they lived . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Never , but I 've been reading up on the history . ’ |
| 7 | I 've been picking up after them all night and all morning . |
| 8 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 9 | ‘ I got a whole morning off in Bruges , and I guess I 've been making up for it ever since . ’ |
| 10 | Graham , when he came to pick me up , would stand back and burst into song , like that man in " Gigi " : " Why , you 've been growing up before my very eyes ! " |
| 11 | " Well , I 've been sitting up with one of my best sows . |
| 12 | The two men , who 've been waiting up to a year for treatment , are both muslims . |