Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 2 | They said whole fields were ripped up into the air ! |
| 3 | ‘ The anti-aircraft rockets I fired were propelled up to a height of 1,000 yards . |
| 4 | If we understand the cold war as imaginary war , a situation in which the Fordist variant of capitalism needed the stalinist variant of socialism , in which the two systems were propped up by a never-ending pretend confrontation , then the collapse of communism was bound to lead to a dramatic reaction in the West . |
| 5 | On 26 December , 114 Lower Church Street and adjoining properties which had been leased to W. A. Reeves , the furnisher , since the offices were given up by the South Metropolitan Company , were sold to him . |
| 6 | They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 7 | Often these were the starting points of big demonstrations which were broken up by the police . |
| 8 | The demonstrations were broken up by the security forces and according to unsubstantiated BPP sources some 300 people were killed during the security operation . |
| 9 | it were rolled up in a wood set er cardboard cylinder and it fetched half a million did n't it ? |
| 10 | For a subject search , the words of the user 's search were looked up in an index containing words from title-like fields and subject headings , and from corporate names . |
| 11 | Fig. 3 showed that the clones of RAP74 whose C-terminal sequences were deleted up to the 171th amino acid residue ( lanes 2,3 and 4 ) stimulated the CAT activity to the same extent as the wild type clone , but further deletion of the C-terminal sequence up to the 128th residue resulted in a complete loss of the CAT activity ( lane 5 ) . |
| 12 | The two men were picked up on the Ross ice shelf , about 350 miles from the coastal camp at Scott base which was their original target . |
| 13 | Twenty-five days later three survivors , all wounded , were picked up from a raft and taken to Capetown . |
| 14 | They were picked up by a Kalafrana H.S.L. ( High Speed Launch ) and proved to be the crew of a Ju87 . |
| 15 | All the bills were picked up by a consortium of local banks and newspapers . |
| 16 | There they were picked up by a white ship crewed by the remnants of the Queen 's Guard . |
| 17 | His choice of words , perhaps , was unfortunate , especially as they were picked up by a TV microphone and broadcast clearly to the nations . |
| 18 | The refugees were picked up by a convoy of buses at the Austrian border . |
| 19 | In the 1970s , Mr Chihana spent seven years in prison as one of thousands of prisoners of conscience who were picked up by the regime but were never charged . |
| 20 | The efforts of the government and the reversal of the alliance with the intellectuals failed to keep out a trickle of French newspapers : contraband books were picked up by the Inquisition all over Spain between 1790 and 1792 . |
| 21 | In early February , in the city of Hamedan , a teenage couple talking in the street were picked up by the ’ revolutionary guards . ’ |
| 22 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 23 | And er guys started to go down that to the twenty foot level where they were picked up by an inflatable off the standby boat . |
| 24 | Then we were picked up in a BBC limo to go and review the papers on Breakfast Time . |
| 25 | Neither of these points were picked up in the debate . |
| 26 | We did n't find you till late , and you were curled up on the landing , outside the kitchen door . |
| 27 | Then , my eyes were lifted up to the hill which overshadows the old city . |
| 28 | The address was , and I think still is , Kensington Court Garage , because the stables had been converted to the needs of the automobile age ; and we were perched up in the gallery . |
| 29 | The police and the Army were caught up in a public order crisis which continues to plague us and which has given rise to the most damaging terrorist campaign . |
| 30 | 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 . |