Example sentences of "[adv] we [was/were] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we was brought up in that atmosphere . |
| 2 | And so we were going up from that price to that price . |
| 3 | Finally we were called up , the gun fired and on this day Lee Macrae decided to have a bad start ! |
| 4 | I did n't reply because all at once we were caught up in a crush of people who seemed to erupt from nowhere , running , pushing against each other . |
| 5 | Eventually we were taken up out of the cells and charged . |
| 6 | Now we were grown up and the difference in our ages was immaterial . |
| 7 | Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that . |
| 8 | Then we were taken up steep narrow logging roads into the mountains of Boras . |
| 9 | And then we were held up at a place because some of our tanks e e the seventy ninth armoured division was er holding all the special tanks er which were flamethrowers and flails and all these sort of things . |
| 10 | Then we were picked up in a BBC limo to go and review the papers on Breakfast Time . |
| 11 | Once we were there we were geared up with riding hats and given a horse . |
| 12 | ‘ And it was only when we were tucked up in her freezing room in Charlotte Street that I got this strange feeling and I said , ‘ But you 're not Janet , are you ? ’ |
| 13 | It was still dark the following morning when we were woken up by a screaming Corporal who came in , kicking the lockers and pushing us out of bed . |
| 14 | It came out of what we saw going on , the increasing pressure on kids today compared with how it was when we were growing up . |
| 15 | No there was er three lads in the double bed and er another two lads in the single bed in one room , and mother was in the front room of course she had husband in those days you see when we were growing up , there was a it was not unusual to sleep top-to- tail if we had any pals , if we had a party and we had any pals we 'd sleep top-to-tail one with a head at the bottom and others with their head at the top , sounds like something out of the Dickens when you start talking about it do n't it ? |
| 16 | K : ‘ We would really like to move back to the area where we were brought up . |