Example sentences of "[subord] i [was/were] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was aware that I was attracted to boys and men from about the age of twelve or fourteen , but although I was brought up in London I still did n't find it very easy to have any sort of contact with other gay men . |
| 2 | And that 's why I 'm saying that , leading up to the Donovan Report and because I was caught up in a situation along with my colleagues , that we were changing a system er and you know , a new incentive scheme , that we were increasing production . |
| 3 | The time I went before that , I got erm , like a frostbitten thumb , because I was going up on the chair lift , and er , I dropped one of my gloves , and it was quite a cold day , so by the time I 'd got to the top , and skied all the way back down , and then down the road going back to try and find me gloves , because I had borrowed them from a friend , |
| 4 | A few days ago when I was hooked up to a foetal monitor , a midwife rushed in , not to ask how I was , but to see if I knew the latest on the war . |
| 5 | It was eighty six when I was sent up to with it . |
| 6 | ‘ When we were first married , I knew you would have to spend quite a lot of time on your own , when I was tied up with business affairs . |
| 7 | And , you know , the sort of things which you can remember , which I can remember , some of the glorious ones , one when I was working up in Lancashire , about this time of year when the , the new May Day Bank Holiday was announced in about nineteen seventy-two or three or something and through five editions of the Lancashire Evening Post was a headline which said ‘ New Pubic Holiday ’ . |
| 8 | Stewart , who managed England 's Test side for six years and steered them to successive World Cup finals , said : ‘ When I was brought up during the war , serving Queen and country meant a lot to my generation . |
| 9 | Bowe said : ‘ I thought he was crazy not to go down in the 10th when I was beating up on him . |
| 10 | The scheme certainly helped me right at the beginning when I was starting up as a criminal lawyer . |
| 11 | ‘ When I was walking up to Keble Road yesterday I saw someone standing at the bus-stop outside St Giles ’ Church , waiting to get up to Summertown . |
| 12 | On another occasion when I was holed up for two days in a tiny cottage in Snowdonia while it poured with rain , an ordnance survey map , my first hand knowledge of the area and an illustrated catalogue of Turner 's work allowed me to prepare for locating the sites where he worked . |
| 13 | Correctly surmising that theirs was the room with the broken bolt hanging from the door , he entered it just as I was catching up with him . |
| 14 | As I was going up to my cell it all hit me — am I ever going to get my daughter back ? |
| 15 | As I was walking up to his house two young bearded men in jeans and sweaters got out of a car and ran towards me . |
| 16 | As I was brought up on a farm I 'm used to working with my hands and in all weathers . |
| 17 | But as I was coming up to London to work in more formal circumstances I selected my new skirt , which is somewhat smoother and less worn , together with my new pullover — oh , no , how odd , this is my old pullover — but — ah , now I remember , yes , worn over a cotton shirt — which again is something smooth . |
| 18 | No heroes or heroines from TV ever entered my world , for I was brought up in a society that banned television . |