Example sentences of "[subord] they [was/were] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the sixteenth century it was found more convenient and safer for these goods to be transported overland to the ports of northern Italy , where they were picked up by Ragusan merchants . |
| 2 | Many of the leading scholars amongst the South Slavs during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were widely travelled and had studied in France , Germany , Austria and Italy , where they were caught up in the intellectual ferment which was abroad at that time . |
| 3 | It is noticeable that parents often react against their own experience so that , for example , if they were brought up in a too restrictive atmosphere with little spoiling , they may spoil and leave their children without enough boundaries and routine . |
| 4 | Yeah well maybe he wanted to see if they were going up in even and odd numbers side of the road . |
| 5 | These roles need not be a burden if they were divided up between more people . |
| 6 | On recovery nights , when subjects were allowed to sleep undisturbed , they took more REM sleep than usual , as if they were making up to some extent for the amount lost . |
| 7 | There was a great crowd , singing , shouting , all very good-humoured — not , I think , because they were taking the situation lightly but because they were buoyed up by the feeling that here was something quite above ordinary political argument , a clearly defined moral issue on which people could stand up and be counted . |
| 8 | They had had tea at the Ritz and drinks at the Café Royal , and then more drinks at Lyons ' Corner House in Coventry Street because they were fed up with swish places and Lyons ' seemed more like home . |
| 9 | Though the ice-box would continue to work at sea , run off the battery , the microwave could only be used while they were hooked up to the shore power supply . |
| 10 | But while they were gearing up for the Hi-de-Hi job , Wirral 's Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals went short of clean bedlinen . |
| 11 | That may be why chatlines , costing up to 48p a minute , have been popular with young people since they were set up in the late Eighties dangerously popular , in some cases . |
| 12 | When they were riding up in the lift , Damian said , ‘ I think we should go over the minutes together . ’ |
| 13 | But we always put one particular herren what we called the October blue-nosed herren because they never wasted when they were hung up to be smoked . |
| 14 | So that 's when I was eating my dinner , when they were going up for the cup and she fell asleep , well you know with the wine in you , here was my eyes all out for the count . |
| 15 | The ordeal ended when they were picked up from Great Barrier Island , 123 days after they had set out from New Zealand . |
| 16 | When they were walking up through the Grove on her birthday . |
| 17 | " I think I might be falling for you , you know , " he said as they were drinking up at eleven . |
| 18 | Braking was by means of the fixed gear transmission and an emergency stop could mean bashed knees as they were forced up against the dashboard and steering wheel . |
| 19 | His choice of words , perhaps , was unfortunate , especially as they were picked up by a TV microphone and broadcast clearly to the nations . |
| 20 | Units of the centrally planned national economy existed in many forms as they were set up by ministries , ‘ centres of production ’ , and directorates of production and were managed either on the basis of the responsibility of a single individual , namely a state-appointed director , or ( particularly from and after the 1956 Revolution ) by workers ' councils or a council of deputies elected by the whole work-force of the enterprise . |
| 21 | When she had told Mr Evans , he had gone very quiet ; and then , just as they were going up for their bath , he suggested the picnic . |