Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Propelled forward by the shrieking aunts , who were bringing up the rear , they stumbled in , falling over the pots and pans and bumping into the dangling kettles , dropping their sacks and shouting and generally making the most satisfactory uproar imaginable . |
| 2 | She has been a couple of times but er when we were bringing up the family course she could n't reasonably go with me every week and er , but she had used to be er a good supporter when she was a girl , she used to go with her father in those days my son 's been with me , cos I took him las well he took me last night with his wife I went in their car . |
| 3 | I told him we were softening up a bit . |
| 4 | ‘ Suppose you suddenly had that feeling — tawdry — while you were walking up the aisle with George Beador . |
| 5 | Below the nesting area the slopes were rich with vegetation , enriched by bird-droppings , and we were climbing up the slope when we became aware that a polar bear with a big cub was ‘ grazing ’ on the slope . |
| 6 | The main thing was that we were picking up a lot of hawking know-how , even if we did look ridiculous . |
| 7 | Between them they were picking up the power line , the hoses for oxygen and wastes . |
| 8 | Erm when we were picking up the trunk off erm Uncle Alan who 's on on the beginning of the fishing |
| 9 | I accidentally spilt some soft drink on the bench where we had lunch , and in a minute a dozen skinks had homed in and were lapping up the liquid . |
| 10 | She also cites evidence from school inspectors which says that in almost 40 per cent of primary schools parents were topping up the capitation allowance for books and equipment by more than 30 per cent . |
| 11 | Conversely , if a French broker were to set up a branch in London and was subject to those more relaxed French rules , the branch would equally be at a competitive advantage as against UK firms . |
| 12 | I know you were kicking up a dust last night , the pair of you . |
| 13 | ‘ You were holding up the kiosk when I got off the train , were n't you ? ’ |
| 14 | The routine on Melrose Ward had barely been established next morning , when Casualty rang to say they were sending up a woman with jaundice who had collapsed in the street . |
| 15 | In the ensuing mêlée , McLaren , Reid and others of the Pistols camp were dragged up the gangplank and into the waiting police vans . |
| 16 | Islands to the SSW were breaking up the swell , but the wind was funnelling between them to create a very steep and confused sea . |
| 17 | On the beach , the pirates were breaking up the captain 's little boat with axes . |
| 18 | Dennis and the others were propping up the bar , Karen was supposedly selecting duty-free perfume . |
| 19 | The rumour was that they were to give up the siege and have their contracts revoked before Christmas . |
| 20 | For as well as suggesting that if we were to give up the view that most actions are autonomous we should have to give up a great deal else as well , it asserts that this transformation of our attitudes is actually beyond us . |
| 21 | If I were to draw up a spec list of preferred bass amp facilities , the resulting layout would probably look similar to the Hartke 's : uncluttered and functional . |
| 22 | If you were to draw up the specification for the ideal material for electronic engineering , I guess it would be something combining the properties of the perfect conductor , the perfect insulator and the ideal semiconductor . |
| 23 | A trio of skinheads were coming up the pavement , and some kids on bikes came by , saw them and started to circle back . |
| 24 | Its annual fairs and three weekly markets brought sellers and purchasers from miles around and goods from overseas were brought up the river Ouse right into the heart of the city , York remained one of the leading provincial centres , despite its decline to less than 8,000 people in the 1520s after the collapse of its cloth industry and the decay of its overseas trade . |
| 25 | In the kinds of society in which most of my readers were brought up the coding of behaviour presupposes a sharp division between what goes on within the household and transactions which link the household to the rest of society . |
| 26 | Well when you were cutting up the meat when you , in the shop and things like that , did you wear any special clothes for that ? |
| 27 | Then , just as we were tying up the canoe , came the first heavy spats of rain on the leaves and with a roll of thunder the heavens opened . |
| 28 | The big man and the woman were running up the gulley , towards its narrow end . |
| 29 | If she were to climb up the hillock and semaphore with her flags the signals would be clearly outlined against the sky . |
| 30 | Millie 's lids were blinking , and her lips were licking up the salt tears as she brought out , ‘ I … |