Example sentences of "were [adj] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From there on , the cherry and whites took complete control and were 10 points up in the first 14 minutes . |
| 2 | Calero said he had never heard of it , except to read about it : ‘ Was that the one we were supposed to blow up on the high seas ? ’ |
| 3 | Thus law , religion and mortality were all bound up in the imperial title and role , and any offence against the Emperor and his law was an offence directly against God . |
| 4 | At breakfast she occasionally annoyed us by reeling off lists of groceries we were all to pick up during the day and bring home in time for dinner . |
| 5 | Rex and Harpo/Chico were all nuzzled up in the land of nod , so I took myself over to the window to watch the sun rise over Presley City . |
| 6 | We were all lined up on the field at Peobresanskoe … the Winter Palace . |
| 7 | he 'd go upstairs and Shirley would have put all the clean clothes back in the wardrobe and he 'd go in the wardrobe oh , no I wo n't wear that , no I wo n't wear that and half the time she found the cleanest clothes were all rolled up under the bed . |
| 8 | We were all caught up in the shock and wondered what the significance was . |
| 9 | Away to the west towards Memo , Lieutenant D. St. A. Dexter , supported by Turton , blocked the enemy 's eastward push that had overrun Dutch positions , but with the difficult hill country between them and Mape , they were unlikely to link up with the other columns . |
| 10 | But the plans came to nothing when council officers were unable to come up with the money to help host the event which runs from March 3–5 . |
| 11 | Then , fortunately , the middle of the seventies , we were able to link up with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , and now , in fact , most of our concerts are done in London with the Royal Phil . |
| 12 | Dad , as a master-tailor during the '14 –'18; war , had a War Department contract for army uniforms , and so we were able to keep up with the Jones 's ( or should I say , the Cohens ? ) . |
| 13 | After the seventh war with the Turks ( 1714–18 ) the Venetians were able to advance up to the present Bosnian border , taking in the whole of Sinjsko Polje and Imotski . |
| 14 | Formal groups were those set up by the management of an organization to undertake duties in the pursuit of organization goals . |
| 15 | These private verses were first collected up in the Nonesuch Collected Papers vol. 2 ( see MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ) . |
| 16 | If it had , they were liable to end up in the Husayn twins ' pockets . |
| 17 | Following a tap penalty Mark Willis and Wilkinson were both held up on the line before McGrath touched down and Mike Robson converted . |