Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figures for January this year were 11 up on the same month last year , when 73 women contacted Edinburgh Women 's Aid . |
| 2 | The Medical Research Council were helpful up to a point , but even Mellanby rapidly found Florey 's demands tiresome and support from that quarter dwindled . |
| 3 | They were all having a packet of chips and fish — whoever fetched them I do n't know , cos they were all up for a good age : tell you , she were a hundred just in St Patrick 's Day . |
| 4 | I felt an unbelievable relief when we were all up to the tizi and the real exploration could begin . |
| 5 | Is th another area that I did n't cover actually when when we were looking at the flats was erm , some people have s have around said that erm flats when they were first up in the first few years , erm were a contrast with the later years , in that erm they did n't have many of the problems , Many of the problems associated with the flats now , didn we were not in existence in the early days of the flats . |
| 6 | They were close up to the car when the brown-haired man of average build left his car and Ven Gajdusek halted to exchange a few words in Czech with him . |
| 7 | STANTONDALE were two up in the first quarter of an hour through Graham Dodd and man of the match Paul Diamond before Carl Thomasson reduced the lead shortly before half-time . |
| 8 | The Mexican boy and his father were both up on the boot . |
| 9 | Maggie did n't know exactly what his position was , but he was high up on the management side . |
| 10 | The body was high up on the shoal , was n't it ? |
| 11 | This was high up above the Bay , on top of the hill . |
| 12 | There , she was high up above the woods , but instead of being able to see all that was going on below for miles around , as she had expected , all she could see was — leaves ! |
| 13 | It was high up in a tree , its back part and hind legs caught in a fork of two branches . |
| 14 | He was high up in the syndicate , which tied him in to Truro Daine . |
| 15 | The window of the charge room was high up in the wall , but through it Wycliffe could distinctly hear the strident voice of a woman teacher talking to her class . |
| 16 | It was windy up on the ridge , and the ponies jogged impatiently as they reached the stretch of open turf which led over to the wood and the track through it . |
| 17 | Taking students ' minds off China 's economic and social problems through nationalistic emotions directed against foreigners was acceptable up to a point . |
| 18 | Another direct result of conquest by force of arms was the development of slavery , which was widespread up to the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | It seemed to him that it was all up with the Church of England ’ . |
| 20 | When I come back in , things was all up in the air because while he was moving the first position of the dust extractor , there 's a radio there . |
| 21 | The riots demonstrated the ease with which public opinion in Japan was moved to chauvinism and nationalism where foreign policy was concerned , as well as highlighting a gap between reality and what the public was led to believe , which was recurrent up to the postwar period . |
| 22 | ‘ I was satisfied up to a point today , but the game was there to be taken . |