Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally that evening the engine pulled into Maidstone where they disembarked , and were put up for the night at the local barracks of the Royal West Kents . |
| 2 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 3 | Within half an hour of leaving Rockford , the convoy had reached its destination and were drawn up on the verge alongside the perimeter fence , just short of the big front gates of Bethlehem House . |
| 4 | And er really when you sort of l look at the children who were born during the war and were brought up during the war , they 're all pretty strong and healthy . |
| 5 | Men who had been asleep and were woken up by the noise did not appear to resent it but sat up on one elbow and stared . |
| 6 | shades they were made in Finland they were the paper pleated ones , er , most of them , no , no not most of them , a lot of them fitted er close up onto the ceiling where they 're intended for centre lights and were held up onto the ceiling with a little spring , erm , they also did some quite nice pleated paper shades , er at a time when you find that most electrical shops were , would have er the old type of erm what is it , imitation silk shades with fringes round them , er fringe at the top and fringe at the bottom and so on sort of thing , when the , when those was sort of old of age everywhere , it was just the same as it 'd been before the war , er it was , you know , quite right really to see these all in different colours , completely plain , but pleated shades but in just one particular colour each shade . |
| 7 | Benny reddened at the stares , but Nan had left the two admirers and was bounding up to the back row . |
| 8 | Harry had come into the lower doorway at the right time , and was moving up between the tables to take his normal place among the young fellows of knightly family , his peers . |
| 9 | They just went in head first and was swallowed up in the road . |
| 10 | Behind the window , the putty face watched as a Moran , large and grey-speckled with red comb and wattles picked her way across the gravel carriage sweep , paused for a moment beside the bed of unpruned roses and was swallowed up in the shadows of the shrubbery . |
| 11 | The meeting on Jan. 8 , 1990 , was attended by 10,000-15,000 people and was broken up by the police , one person being arrested . |
| 12 | She was coming along the opposite pavement on foot and was looking up at the buildings as if she were not sure of being in the right street . |
| 13 | I sat on it , and was pulled up to the island . |
| 14 | The even-money favourite was never moving in his best style and was pulled up before the 15th fence . |
| 15 | Trainer David Barons had no excuses for last year 's winner Seagram , who made no show and was pulled up before the third-last . |
| 16 | They never found him and I often wondered whether he went in with his machine and dead gunner or whether he managed to bale out and was picked up by the flyingboat they had stationed in Sicily for sea rescue work . ’ |
| 17 | He refrained from taking any alcohol or drugs , but when he returned to Hollywood to commence filming , he began drinking again and was picked up by the police for drunken driving . |
| 18 | A report on these ideas appeared in the medical school newsletter and was picked up by the Boston Globe and the New York Times . |
| 19 | When the Titanic struck its iceberg , Beesley escaped in the underpopulated Lifeboat 13 , and was picked up by the Carpathia . |
| 20 | The T and G was the paper 's greatest union supporter from the beginning , and was to end up as the biggest single investor . |
| 21 | Faster and faster the Wheel trundled , a whirling fiery hoop , until it reached an artificial mound at the cliff edge and was deflected up into the air . |
| 22 | The drays and bullocks Stephen had sent from Yarrundi eventually arrived on 27 September , the ‘ tent was struck ’ where Gould 's men had encamped outside town with all the provisions , and was loaded up on the carts for the long , slow haul back to the reaches of the Upper Hunter . |