Example sentences of "was [vb pp] up and " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she returned to the room with the salted hot water , Frank and May between them had lifted Andrew on to the bed , and there he was propped up and breathing very heavily now . |
| 2 | In 1877 , the manufacture and repair of locomotives at Wolverton was given up and the whole of this work was done at Crewe , so that Wolverton became an exclusively carriage building centre . |
| 3 | The toilet was er at the back of what we used to call the brew house it was n't a kitchen it was a brew house , and er the , the toilet was at the back of the brew house adjacent to the old ash pit , which was an ash pit in those days it was filled up and when it was filled , they used to come at night and empty the ash pit wheel up the entry it might be there for three or four months and you got flies , bluebottles all sorts in the hot weather you know , I could n't try my shoes on sometimes , but er it was a bit , well I suppose in those days they used to take it for granted , it was a bit primitive it was n't the best five houses in the area , but er |
| 4 | In January 1974 , Heath 's giant Department of Trade and Industry was broken up and a separate Department of Energy created . |
| 5 | At least one ship was broken up and its wreckage cast upon the coasts of Bretonnia , but of Grom and the rest of the Waaagh nothing was ever seen again in the realms of Men . |
| 6 | The burnt bed was broken up and pieces tossed through the window into the courtyard below . |
| 7 | I have some limited sale documents dating back to the 1920's when the Wyresdale Estate was broken up and properties sold . |
| 8 | That 's what I used to do with Marie — look for food they chucked away cos it was bashed up and that . |
| 9 | Even the drinking water , gushing through the bronze cow 's head water spout , was clouded up and grey with silt . |
| 10 | Now that their operation had actually started everyone was keyed up and eager to go , and the whole force quickly gathered round the sheriff 's car for a final briefing . |
| 11 | It was planned to establish this common market in transitional stages over 12 years : actually this process was speeded up and a full customs union was achieved , triumphantly , on 1 July 1968 . |
| 12 | Lester was best man and made a zany film of the wedding , in which the action was speeded up and slowed down . |
| 13 | The temporary bridge was first of all submerged then , like a matchstick , it was lifted up and swept aside . |
| 14 | But the hands came cunning and swift and raised a harsh green fabric up , until there was darkness over his head and he was paralysed with fear as he was lifted up and began a long and terrible journey . |
| 15 | I was lifted up and lashed to a stretcher . |
| 16 | Lowe and his nephew were sojourning was torn up and washed away , and the nephew and two men , overwhelmed by the torrent , sank and perished . |
| 17 | She was carried up and flung outward . |
| 18 | The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van . |
| 19 | Charlton was picked up and carried to Hewett 's house where medical help was soon to hand . |
| 20 | Four of the watchers , experienced men , not easy to shock , had to undergo therapy as they described how the figure of the youth was picked up and hurled twenty yards towards them , like a rag doll , first flying , then bouncing and rolling in a twisted assembly of disjointed limbs . |
| 21 | Every tiny fragment of fibre , denim and leather was picked up and dropped in the bags . |
| 22 | I wrote a letter to The Times about this lunacy , and it was picked up and ridiculed by all the national papers . |
| 23 | Not far from the hearth a rosette headed silvered bronze pin was picked up and at this site two Viking bronze pins and parts of a bronze buckle . |
| 24 | The building was boarded up and effectively left to decay . |
| 25 | All the shops was boarded up and everything . |
| 26 | Lately he had always seemed to start the day with a broken window-pane , and then suddenly one morning the front of his shop was boarded up and we never saw Mr Schultz again . |
| 27 | In 1950 the company was wound up and its copyright taken over by the Britons Society , in a merger of racial nationalist and Die-hard conservative traditions — an ideological alliance of two of the major strands of political thought which later heavily influenced the ideas of the National Front . |
| 28 | In 1944 the scheme was wound up and , sadly , the stock of films sold . |
| 29 | The large plate-glass window of the riverside cafe was steamed up and trickles of condensation ran down the yellow-painted walls . |
| 30 | When Tony was seen in hospital by the therapist on the following morning he denied having wanted to kill himself , but claimed he was fed up and could not see any way out of his present difficulties . |