Example sentences of "was [verb] up [prep] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Operations reported that a big raid was building up over Sicily and shortly afterwards all aircraft were scrambled . |
| 2 | It was still very cold and everyone was muffled up in coats and scarves and gloves . |
| 3 | He was picked up by patrol and returned to Cairo [ untrue ] . |
| 4 | Tracy West , who was knocked down , was picked up by bystanders and taken to a nearby shop , where she was treated for shock before being taken to the Memorial Hospital . |
| 5 | Much later the method of dialectic clash was polished up by Hegel and adopted by Marx . |
| 6 | It appeared that the former was hung up on sadomasochism and the latter high on sex , leaving little for Fonda and Hopper to do but punctuate every word with ‘ man ’ . |
| 7 | But I also felt that the guitar became a different instrument when it was turned up to maximum and fully distorted — it was no longer a polyphonic instrument , really . |
| 8 | ‘ Mainly cooks and cripples , ’ he said cheerfully , and the family hoped that this would mean that he stayed in England , but when he returned to London after his leave the battalion was made up to strength and moved to Howick in Scotland . |
| 9 | Rank Travel was made up of Wings and OSL in 1985 , while British Airways Tours included the Enterprise , Sovereign , Flair , Alta ( Speed Bird ) , and Martin Rook holiday names as well as its own airline company , British Air Tours . |
| 10 | In bringing it up to date and making it profitable , he had to tread warily , for although it was made up of land and property , it was essentially about people . |
| 11 | Similarly , while he was still fit enough , Ceauşescu inflicted games of volley-ball on his colleagues : his team was made up of bodyguards and young relatives , the opponents were politburo members or deskbound apparatchiks of one sort or another . |
| 12 | At first it was thought that the nucleus of the atom was made up of electrons and different numbers of a positively charged particle called the proton , from the Greek word meaning " first , " because it was believed to be the fundamental unit from which matter was made . |
| 13 | She declared the Gainford property to be very nice to live in but ‘ of no serious interest ’ because it was made up from bits and pieces of different vintage . |
| 14 | Jabberwocky is a poem that was made up in Wonderland and it describes some of the wonderful creatures to be seen there . |
| 15 | The new Patrimony of St Peter was built up by threats and the exploitation of rivalries . |
| 16 | Law had indeed already done enough as leader to make his departure unthinkable and so a memorial was drawn up by Carson and signed by almost all the party 's backbenchers , stating full confidence in Law and begging him to stay on with a revised tariff policy . |
| 17 | The next thing he recalled after that was waking up in hospital and this man with bandaged fingers in the next bed rambling on about a duffle-coat and how he 'd been bitten by a wolf . |
| 18 | Going to grandma 's , but mum was going up to B and Q. |
| 19 | British Rail 's diesel stock was coming up for replacement and we needed to decide whether to reinvest in diesel equipment or to invest in electrification . |
| 20 | Our plea to the Government is that they take a leaf out of their own book on the independent living fund , which was set up in haste and has played a role that it was never meant to play . |
| 21 | The Trust was set up by Lord and Lady Romsey after their eight year old daughter died of cancer . |
| 22 | I mean , I was brought up on Janet and John , you know |
| 23 | In the way by which he was brought up by hand and also how his hands are burnt and so scarred by the fire in which he tries to save Miss Havisham , perhaps showing physically the mental scars he has taken on through his treatment of others , especially Joe . |
| 24 | I am , I was born in Essex , in in hospital and my family all come from Essex , and I was brought up in Upminster and I was very fortunate in that I was born into a christian home and I had christian parents and christian grandparents and christian aunts and uncles and I went to church from the time I was about two or three weeks old . |
| 25 | Jaye was brought up in Hertfordshire and did n't have a happy time of it . |
| 26 | Prosecuting John Burke , QC , said Abram was brought up in Aspull and , after moving to Scholes , still visited his parents in Cross Street . |
| 27 | ‘ No , I was brought up in Berkhamsted and I spent a couple of years living in Oxfordshire not so long ago , so I 'm not completely inflexible about this . |
| 28 | Inside , the tunnel was shored up with beams and was high enough to stand up in . |
| 29 | Today , the plucky youngster was sitting up in bed and said to be ‘ improving ’ at Alder Hey Childrens ' Hospital , Liverpool . |
| 30 | In a talk with the Prime Minister this morning he asked whether I thought too much time of Ministers was taken up by Committees and whether there were too many Committees . |