Example sentences of "up and it was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 2 | I started to look around and I put my hand up and it was lying at the back of my collar |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , a party from the castle across the Forth , they gathered it up and it was taken back on a royal barge . ’ |
| 4 | He hit the pin halfway up and it was going like a rocket — — that was the shot which I think won us the Open . |
| 5 | In March of 1888 negotiations with Mr Quarry were still continuing but by September of that year a proposed lease for purchase on the ground had been drawn up and it was signed on 10 December 1888 . |
| 6 | The couple split up and it was left to Jacques and his parents to raise Nicolas . |