Example sentences of "and we [was/were] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hassell , who joined the club only a few months before Tendulkar , added : ‘ When I arrived , membership had been falling for about seven years and we were ringing up companies to try to talk them into sponsorship . |
| 2 | He 'd whistle and all the horses would run over to us ; and there we were surrounded by these great horses , and we were holding up the babies to them ! |
| 3 | The ceiling had been removed and we were looking up at where the roof of the house once had been . |
| 4 | Pondoes well you got Pondoes one side and you got Freston on the other and we were dredging up . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Naturally the wounded had to be got away first , but later that day a plane came back over the mountains , and we were lined up again , and told that we could take only a small amount of personal possessions . |
| 9 | And we were walking up and down on the beach at Aldeburgh and the most interesting part of our conversation was that we were saying we both started out as not conservatives , I 've never voted conservative in my life , but we started out as very loyal people . |