Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike . |
| 2 | So I used to go with him , and incidently he was a , he was very good on classical music , although we never went into this although I 'd got very close to him but I 'm sure he were brought up in an orphanage you know , and never talked about this but I 'm sure he was . |
| 3 | I followed him out of the City until I was convinced he was packing up for the day . |
| 4 | Richard 's face was bleeding and she knew he was shouting up at the people . |
| 5 | He wriggled back further on the bed till he was leaning up against the wall . |
| 6 | At the storming of this fortress on 19 January he was blown up at the head of his brigade when a French magazine exploded , killing 108 men . |
| 7 | While there he was called up by the England squad when the touring team ran into injury trouble last summer . |
| 8 | While there he was called up by the England squad when the touring team ran into injury trouble last summer . |
| 9 | Recently he was called up by the Customs and Excise about 20 videos ( mostly tapes from TV ) a friend had sent him from America . |
| 10 | He was looking up at the sign over the door . |
| 11 | He was b he was born up in the mountains |
| 12 | He was swallowed up in the fog . |
| 13 | As he was led up from the cells and into a cage , there was bedlam in the courtroom . |
| 14 | Quite how he was supposed to stand up for himself when he was tied up in a wicker laundry basket which had been left under a running shower was another matter . |
| 15 | He was tied up in the garden but was put in a pen at night . |
| 16 | He was dressed up as a pantomime character in the picture and was posing . |
| 17 | It would give him pleasure to make jokes that were n't funny while he was dressed up in the wedding-dress of a woman he claimed had been murdered also . |
| 18 | He was gazing up at the stars , probably communing with the Mother Ship and receiving new instructions . |
| 19 | He was fed up with the whole situation , and all Francesca 's family . |
| 20 | He was fed up with the politics of big business . |
| 21 | He was drawing up outside the hall when he thought of Graham Young . |
| 22 | By day 22 he was getting up at the ‘ correct ’ time ( that is , his morning and real morning coincided ) , but had lost a whole day . |
| 23 | His advisers hit on the idea of announcing that he was going on a cruise up the Hudson river where , away from prying eyes , he was propped up in a chair against the mast and anaesthetised . |
| 24 | A PASSENGER died from appalling injuries after he was beaten up by a woman bus conductor , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 25 | During the sittings , he was always in good spirits ; and as long as you did not try to glimpse what he was putting up on the canvas , he would dilate on any subject that took his fancy . |
| 26 | When he arrived in Bristol he was put up in the old Bright 's ( temperance ) Hotel at the rear of the present Dingle 's store . |
| 27 | Even during the summer term he was wrapped up against the elements in waterproof jacket and leggings — his head encased in a leather helmet with ear-flaps . |
| 28 | When the keeper came up to check on the Spectacled Bears , she could n't understand that Omero and Minky were trying to tell her that Sam was ill , she just saw that he was curled up in a ball and would n't move . |
| 29 | According to Captain Trentham 's report , he was picked up with a single bullet wound in his right hand while lying in the mud only a few yards in front of his own trench . |
| 30 | He was picked up by a rescue boat , but onlookers say THAT craft was then involved in a second accident . |