Example sentences of "was [verb] up [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was propped up now against a heap of pillows . |
| 2 | A splendid noisy scene was building up nicely in the breakfast room . |
| 3 | THE management team which has built the most successful Great Britain side since the Seventies was broken up yesterday with the dismissal of the 54-year-old Les Bettinson , team manager since 1985 . |
| 4 | THE management team which has built the most successful Great Britain side since the Seventies was broken up yesterday with the dismissal of the 54-year-old Les Bettinson , team manager since 1985 . |
| 5 | Virginia pushed agitated hands through her hair , forgetting it was caught up neatly in a high top-knot . |
| 6 | In the end there was only one way of doing it and that was climbing up there with a match and a long piece of wire . |
| 7 | Where the printed story came from I do n't know , but basically it was made up somewhere along the line ; a fairy story . |
| 8 | Her voice : a light ‘ Come in — ’ She was made up still for the stage . |
| 9 | The standard way of exploring fur lead was by searching for veinstone pebbles in the becks of gills , and when enough of the veinstones were found to indicate a good deposit of lead-bearing ores a dam was built up above on the fell at the head of the beck . |
| 10 | It got a lot of airplay from John Peel , and was written up extensively by the music press . |
| 11 | The sun burned into our eyes from high overhead and was reflected up again from the sand . |
| 12 | Most years it was washed up again on the next or a later tide , but this was of no consequence so long as the Scapegoat had gone . |
| 13 | The Scottish host was drawn up now along the flank of Homildon Hill . |
| 14 | The word ‘ rescue ’ was looming up somewhere in the sentence ahead . |
| 15 | The Darling Buds Of May returned and suddenly Miss Zeta Jones was popping up all over the place . |
| 16 | Cardiff whirled back to see that Pearce 's face was squashed up close to the glass , still thirty feet from the reception doors ; face contorted , mouth wide and agonised . |
| 17 | And Garvey jumped down and was swallowed up immediately by the fuming mist . |
| 18 | The attitude of many Romanian health professionals was summed up recently in the words of one doctor in Constanta who said ‘ Health Education is the only ‘ vaccine ’ we have to fight against HIV . ’ |
| 19 | I was holed up forever with the RSC , and so just not available . |
| 20 | Yeah , that i , is precisely , it is n't the case with everyone , I mean , I think that what the girl was saying up there about the groups going round , it 's a great idea ! |
| 21 | The scheme was set up just after the war in order to ensure state-sponsorship of the arts . |
| 22 | Mr Harris said MPL was set up specifically for the contract . |
| 23 | One such group is the Haitian Information Bureau , which was set up recently as a news and information service designed to provide an accurate picture of the current situation in Haiti . |
| 24 | But the expansion was pulled up sharply by a balance of payments crisis . |
| 25 | Because I have it , whether it 's anything to do with my aristocratic ancestors or the fact that I was brought up properly in the old-fashioned way to respect integrity and honesty and decency . |
| 26 | As she entered the little parlour behind her , Theda was brought up short by the sight of a stranger standing before the fireplace . |
| 27 | And I was brought up virtually without a , well he felt as if he was n't a father , he felt as though he was my younger brother all the time ! |
| 28 | She was buoyed up suddenly on the wave of amazement and admiration that she could feel enveloping her from across the whole room . |
| 29 | In a ‘ sellers market ’ , similar to that which pertained in the United Kingdom after World War Two , there was little need for promotional activity because demand exceeded supply and whatever was produced was taken up immediately by the market . |
| 30 | Following publication of Kimura 's paper the dichotic listening technique was taken up enthusiastically as a means of assessing language laterality in normal subjects . |