Example sentences of "it was [adv] [verb] up [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story of the lift does not end here , for it was many years before it was finally cut up and sold for scrap . |
| 2 | It was already leaping up and down saying , ‘ Go for it , you may never get another chance like this one . ’ |
| 3 | It was deliberately set up when the University received its Charter in 1909 . |
| 4 | It was then boxed up and taken to meet its new owner , an elderly woman living alone . |
| 5 | ‘ But it was never taken up because it is slower because of its weight and size . ’ |
| 6 | Now that her ankle was better she should really go back and chase up on the calls Steve should have made in Palma so that it was all tied up when he got back but she did n't want to spoil it all with Fernando . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , my plants are all dead and the cat 's starving , and when I went across to her place it was all locked up and there are piles of junk mail on the mat . ’ |
| 8 | And as they went on , you know , it was gradually working up and so therefore the graph , each man 's productivity you know , was rising . |