Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] up and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remains of the bird were gathered up and removed . |
| 2 | The chair with the wobbly leg , the dented saucepans , the knives with loose handles , all were gathered up and restored if possible , mainly by Nigel , who , when I produced new casualties almost weekly as the season wore on , would sigh and say patiently , ‘ Put it on my bench , darling . ’ |
| 3 | The older castles were patched up and redefended but the raids continued , increasing in severity ; it took almost twenty years before the authorities finally awoke to the extent of the problem . |
| 4 | So we went back in and things were patched up and Mum made a pot of tea and tried to make amends by promising to do her best to make the wedding the best in the district . |
| 5 | Ribs were broken up and mostly lost , vertebrae had all their processes removed and three out of nine lost , pelves were reduced to the region of the acetabulum and one damaged beyond recognition , and five out of twelve phalanges and metapodials remained . |
| 6 | Back on parade , you lot , ’ shouted Sergeant-Major Philpott , and neither man had the breath to speak another word for the next two hours as they were marched up and down , up and down , until Charlie felt that when they eventually stopped his feet must surely fall off . |
| 7 | When each pairing had gone through 200 moves of the game , the winnings were totalled up and the winner declared . |
| 8 | After the 1906 printing the plates were inked up and varnished over but not cancelled in any way : theoretically , therefore , it would be possible for a new purchaser to print from them . |
| 9 | By the time of the riots a quarter of all houses on the estate were boarded up and burned out by infant petrol bombers . |
| 10 | All the houses were boarded up and so were the few shops . |
| 11 | The Maxwell Houses , as they became known , were labelled as a ’ blot on the landscape ’ after they were boarded up and then simply abandoned . |
| 12 | When the sweetness was all sucked out they murmured that their legs were tired , and cried until they were picked up and carried home . |
| 13 | In December 1987 two stray Rough Collies , a bitch of about 15 months old and a dog of about 18 months , were picked up and taken to a police station near Oxford . |
| 14 | He was detained on Saturday , 30th December , the same day that Mattiya and Otini Kambona were picked up and at the same time as the closure of Ulimwengu was announced . |
| 15 | Well it would be I suppose it would be possible that that they could start their time together and work right through for years together , but invariably er that did n't happen because people were picked up and laid off as the boat progressed , er and if er Y you may get a a run for the one yard would need , say , six squads of of riveters , in a hurry . |
| 16 | Er now we , the pensioners , had no choice , we were picked up and put into the new scheme having paid our contributions appropriately to the old scheme rules which were the higher contributions , but only to pick up the new scheme rules that were against our interest . |
| 17 | Afterwards the gods ' puris were torn up and shared out as prasād . |
| 18 | The drastic cuts come a week after Aldershot were wound up and rekindle fears for several Fourth Division clubs facing closure . |
| 19 | So you know there the recoveries are very good , very welcomed by us , but basically we 're two years now since this happened erm pensioners have been suffering extreme mental turmoil for that period , quite frankly they 're , they 're utterly confused , they do n't understand what 's happening and to ask those sort of people to rely and put their s their , their whole future security on the outcomings of out of court settlements where claims are made for two hundred million and there 's a thirty two million you know they 're getting totally confused and I think that that they just do not know what 's happening , they , they want long-term security , we 're now getting an increasing number of people who 've retired since the schemes were wound up and are therefore getting a hundred per cent of their , their money from the company fund , which we 're told is going to run out in two-and-a-half years time . |
| 20 | But things were mixed up and while she received the soul of a man , she was given the body of a woman . ’ |
| 21 | And if I may just , that 's the last thing I need to say is the Christmas Fair dates somehow were muddled up and somebody put the wrong dates to the day , it 's Wednesday the sixteenth and Thursday the seventeenth . |
| 22 | For all of these day-rate jobs a time book was kept and wages were reckoned up and paid at the end of the month . |
| 23 | Hundreds of machines , some almost a century old were spruced up and dusted down yesterday for one of the biggest events in the biking calendar . |
| 24 | My eyes were puffed up and my face was covered with red spots . |
| 25 | By then he was forty-two years old , he was tired of the strains of FI racing , his kids were grown up and beginning to race themselves , his business interests ( and , by now , his reputation ) were all in the USA and , as he said phlegmatically at Las Vegas after his last race in FI , ‘ I just do n't see any reason to continue any more . |
| 26 | His kids were grown up and racing . |
| 27 | Now we were grown up and the difference in our ages was immaterial . |
| 28 | And er they would maybe er devise or make or r find a piece of suitable wood or something to scratch in the garden or in the sand or on a piece of nice soft soil , to make furrows and er imitate maybe what their Dad was doing out in the field and er they had no concept of doing anything else to play really , it was just pretending they were pretending they were grown up and working . |
| 29 | ‘ It was a rush decision to do it , we were phoned up and the next day after that we recorded it . |
| 30 | The total number of large vessels , a mere 40 in 1763 , was raised by 1771 , when he left office , to 64 ships of the line and 50 frigates ; stocks of stores were built up and a fourth arsenal , at Marseilles , added to those at Brest , Rochefort and Toulon ; improved training and signalling methods were introduced , along with a more scientific study of tactics . |