Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were girls who were prepared to put up with fat . |
| 2 | Evidence suggests that working class wives were prepared to put up with occasional drinking bouts by their husbands and the physical abuse that sometimes accompanied them rather than lose the economic support normally provided . |
| 3 | He genuinely like women , and he liked people who were prepared to stand up for themselves . |
| 4 | These were people who knew how the business worked , understood local markets — and were prepared to stand up for what they knew and believed . |
| 5 | From there on , the cherry and whites took complete control and were 10 points up in the first 14 minutes . |
| 6 | Calero said he had never heard of it , except to read about it : ‘ Was that the one we were supposed to blow up on the high seas ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The clothes were fit to stand up on their own , they were that stiff with dust and grease . |
| 8 | I could , of course , have added that some of those crowded around the door were likely to end up like Conor unless they backed away from their relentless hedonism , from their incessant living for the moment . |
| 9 | However , connections were unfortunate to come up against a fine-tuned Remittance Man last March and , although Katabatic ran a cracker , mounting a ferocious challenge up the final climb , he was held by a length at the line . |
| 10 | Cleo cast a dubious glance at the dogs who were all looking up at Lorimer with smiling , gaping mouths and wagging tails . |
| 11 | ‘ They were all dressed up in their Sunday best , in real contrast to the Western tourists who were all in casual , holiday clothes . |
| 12 | Thus law , religion and mortality were all bound up in the imperial title and role , and any offence against the Emperor and his law was an offence directly against God . |
| 13 | Behind her back they were all doubling up with laughter wondering what she meant . |
| 14 | At breakfast she occasionally annoyed us by reeling off lists of groceries we were all to pick up during the day and bring home in time for dinner . |
| 15 | We were all set up for it in Britain : a Labour government anti-nuclear movement swinging along on borrowed money with Carnaby Street and the Beatles — they were going to bring World Peace all by themselves — fat dumb and happy . |
| 16 | They were all made up as a batch were n't they ? |
| 17 | Rex and Harpo/Chico were all nuzzled up in the land of nod , so I took myself over to the window to watch the sun rise over Presley City . |
| 18 | The youngsters were all locked up for days in solitary confinement at children 's homes in Staffordshire . |
| 19 | She was only guessing like , cos they were all wrapped up in paper , but she said she knew . |
| 20 | In Canaan , prostitution and fertility rites were all mixed up with worship . |
| 21 | Aye , they were all mixed up with them were n't they ? |
| 22 | We were all lined up on the field at Peobresanskoe … the Winter Palace . |
| 23 | It was not to be , for although we were all keyed up like first violins , having heard Churchill 's great ‘ Their finest hour ’ speech on June 15th with les soldats Francaises listening as well , Whitehall had decided that better arrangements had to be made for children than care in one of the best London hospitals . |
| 24 | he 'd go upstairs and Shirley would have put all the clean clothes back in the wardrobe and he 'd go in the wardrobe oh , no I wo n't wear that , no I wo n't wear that and half the time she found the cleanest clothes were all rolled up under the bed . |
| 25 | Flemish and Spanish doors , slabs of different coloured marble , stone surfaces , panelling , good mahogany , were all snapped up for background effect . |
| 26 | The vagaries of travel to Orkney , however , including the fact that the scheduled flights were all booked up with journalists , meant he could not arrive in time for the ten o'clock start . |
| 27 | Mm do n't think that 's a new idea , I think we were all brought up on that idea . |
| 28 | Er it 's not like if you had a lot of people in the flats who were all working up at for example , you 'd have a lot more kind of community spirit going , and a lot , and a lot more common erm feeling , I think , between people . |
| 29 | Imagine : I was a bit pissed for a start , the object of my complete love was nesting in my rear-view mirror , the corpulent groom — my best friend — who had spent three weeks pleasuring her in the Hellenic sunshine was sitting beside me with a clank of duty-free between his calves , I 'd lost my job , and the other drivers on the road were all tuning up for Formula One . |
| 30 | We were all caught up in the shock and wondered what the significance was . |