Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He were made up with them ! |
| 2 | The restriction was upheld by the Privy Council which rejected the argument that Deacons were only entitled to protect such part of their goodwill as would be threatened by Bridge if he were to set up in practice on his own account , ie that part of the firm 's goodwill as attached to the particular department in which he had worked . |
| 3 | His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike . |
| 4 | The moon was shining full on his face — it seemed as if he were staring up at it . |
| 5 | It was as though he were making up for inadequacies of which he was aware but which he tried to pretend were not there . |
| 6 | So I used to go with him , and incidently he was a , he was very good on classical music , although we never went into this although I 'd got very close to him but I 'm sure he were brought up in an orphanage you know , and never talked about this but I 'm sure he was . |
| 7 | I followed him out of the City until I was convinced he was packing up for the day . |
| 8 | Richard 's face was bleeding and she knew he was shouting up at the people . |
| 9 | He was darting up to each of the dogs in turn , ears pricked , eyes blazing with devilment , dabbing a paw at them then streaking away . |
| 10 | A young Cornish shoemaker married at the time he was setting up on his own : " his wife 's immediate fortune was ten pounds — a sum to him at that time , of great importance " . |
| 11 | He wriggled back further on the bed till he was leaning up against the wall . |
| 12 | I think Freud would say though however that these are more like the th the was talking about religion , now clearly if something is a outlawing it is n't gon na make much difference to it , or if anything it 's , it 's just gon na make it er , er make it more difficult , but there are certain types of religion and Judaism is one of them where th this very pattern you 're talking about did occur and here Freud is er probably standing on , on firm ground , for reasons which I 'll explain in my lectures I do n't wan na take up too much time , but I have done a bit of research on this myself and as you will see , erm there 's , there are good reasons for thinking that Freud was certainly right about some of those and we certainly know that a monotheistic and , and an absolutely rigidly monotheistic religion appeared in Ancient Egypt as erm Andrea said , just before erm the er reign of this heretic er heretic , heretic pharaoh one of whose er near descendants , I forget how he was related now , erm was originally called Tutamkhatan and then was forced to change his name to Tutankhamen and he was dug up by Howard Carter in nineteen twenty two or something er and er the Tutankhamen is called Tutankhamen and not Tutamkhatan is that there was a religious . |
| 13 | ‘ It was a Hamburg hotel and Paul was sitting with his girlfriend who he was breaking up with . |
| 14 | Lewis knew very well he should not do this , that he was sucking up to someone for the sake of inheriting his property . |
| 15 | At the storming of this fortress on 19 January he was blown up at the head of his brigade when a French magazine exploded , killing 108 men . |
| 16 | He was pointing up at Li Yuan , there at the centre of the screen . |
| 17 | It had been owned by the Turner family , and my aunt 's builder husband had bought it from them and was turning it into an apartment house when he was called up for service with the Army . |
| 18 | He cant be that bad cos he was called up for England last season if Im correct ? |
| 19 | MIDFIELDER Jamie Redknapp today received some compensation for Liverpool 's early exit from Europe when he was called up for England 's Under-21 international against Turkey at Brisbane Road on November 17 . |
| 20 | While there he was called up by the England squad when the touring team ran into injury trouble last summer . |
| 21 | While there he was called up by the England squad when the touring team ran into injury trouble last summer . |
| 22 | Recently he was called up by the Customs and Excise about 20 videos ( mostly tapes from TV ) a friend had sent him from America . |
| 23 | He was called up in nineteen thirty-nine , became an army cook and worked his way up . |
| 24 | He was looking up at the sign over the door . |
| 25 | Anyway , , the old shed looks well there er , I du n no why I started to look out and the cat was on his back legs with his feet like that and he was looking up at me like that ! |
| 26 | On the only occasion when Warnie tried to probe Jack on the origin or true nature of his relationship with Minto he was shut up with great vehemence . |
| 27 | The way he was fired up for last season 's FA Cup semi-final against Portsmouth , despite knowing he was to have major heart surgery the next day showed his commitment . |
| 28 | AN old lag has vowed to go straight — because police treated him so kindly when he was banged up in their station . |
| 29 | He was b he was born up in the mountains |
| 30 | He was swallowed up in the fog . |