Example sentences of "was [verb] up over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Operations reported that a big raid was building up over Sicily and shortly afterwards all aircraft were scrambled . |
| 2 | The special school sector was built up over a century or more . |
| 3 | The complex adaptation of the organism to its physical and organic environment was built up over time through the constant application of pressures that are never stable . |
| 4 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 5 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |
| 6 | He 'd drawn the curtain back a little and was hunched up over his glass , staring into the street |
| 7 | A thick , gold moon was coming up over the sea , glittering on the roofs of the town below them . |
| 8 | They ran side by side , easy with training , breathless only with amazement , and now the sun was coming up over the edge of the sea and the whole world was sharp and glittery , concrete and weeds , and the barbed wire hanging drops of dew and spiders ' webs . |
| 9 | On this occasion , Plage was set up over a water-hole in a clearing in the jungle , hoping that a leopard would show up to hunt or drink . |
| 10 | Estimates suggest that the peasantry as a whole was giving up over one-third of its total rice output for much of the period , but in some areas it may have been much higher . |
| 11 | Anyway , that evening her hair was swept up over her ears at the sides and fastened back with two tortoise-shell clips , her eyes seemed dark as dark , and I just could n't get over her . |
| 12 | He began by saying that seven years earlier Meehan had been found guilty by a jury ‘ on evidence which was amply justified ’ , and then went on : ‘ Some public support was whipped up over the years for reasons which were not entirely clear and for motives which might be imagined . ’ |
| 13 | The mining equipment was lined up over the shaft . |
| 14 | I was screwed up over everything , really , I 'd had enough and I just needed to escape . |
| 15 | The episode has embarrassed German authorities particularly in regard to supposedly stringent security imposed after a Pan Am jumbo jet was blown up over Lockerbie in 1988 by a bomb allegedly placed aboard at Frankfurt . |
| 16 | The episode has embarrassed German authorities particularly in regard to supposedly stringent security imposed after a Pan Am jumbo jet was blown up over Lockerbie in 1988 by a bomb allegedly placed aboard at Frankfurt . |