Example sentences of "[pron] we [was/were] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is that to a class of fifteen-year-olds in a co-ed comprehensive school , such a statement told us something influential about the culture in which we were growing up and nothing about gerbils . |
| 2 | We we were brought up to believe that if you did n't do the right thing you would be punished . |
| 3 | We complained to Malcolm , told him we were fed up with the mice and we did n't have enough money to eat properly . |
| 4 | I told him we were softening up a bit . |
| 5 | Our problem , J. and I , was that wherever we sat we did tend to have a row of armourers planted behind us , and instead of watching the screen their eyes would be fixed on us to see what we were getting up to . |
| 6 | In that peat there used to be deer 's teeth , everything , parts of the jaw , horns , what we were dredging up , then we went further down to erm Downham Reach , that 's just before the Cattoes and we were dredging all green clay . |
| 7 | Why are we , the so-called celebrities and you , the Golden-Hearted GBP , coughing up week in week out of our time and our money to pay for what we were brought up to believe our taxes paid for ? |