Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 2 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 3 | Through the communicating voice tube I was invited up to the bridge . |
| 4 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
| 5 | The fact was that all sorts of strange gear-shifts were taking place within my psyche , and I was eaten up by the morbid drama of Frankenstein . |
| 6 | I was fed up with the European promoters who seemed obsessed by the American sprinters . |
| 7 | I was fed up with the yucky mouldy silicone round the edge and reckoned a proper job should be done on it . |
| 8 | You said er , I told , I told him I was fed up with the General Secretary of this union that had n't given us any backing and you said sorry Phil , but I 'm not the General Secretary . |
| 9 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 10 | The idea was that when that was done , on a signal I was to open up with the Breda and shoot up the café . |
| 11 | I was wrapped up to the eyes when I went u down to put my walking boots on as well because they 're comfortable and there were people going going round in their shellsuits and you know I must be feeling the cold more now . |
| 12 | I was bellied up to the bar with the crowd of bobby-soxers and crewcuts . |
| 13 | I was directed up through the town , past some municipal gardens to a small building set back from the road . |
| 14 | Stewart , who managed England 's Test side for six years and steered them to successive World Cup finals , said : ‘ When I was brought up during the war , serving Queen and country meant a lot to my generation . |
| 15 | Well I was brought up on the story . |
| 16 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 17 | It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation . |
| 18 | I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English . |
| 19 | As a male Caucasian with a father who had died of a coronary thrombosis at the age of 59 , I was brought up in the smoky atmosphere of a northern industrial town . |
| 20 | Like most people , I was brought up in the belief that a nightmare was something bad that happened while you were asleep . |
| 21 | And it it was , I mean I was brought up in the country and it , I found it really shocking that people had to live like that , you know . |
| 22 | I was brought up in the country , on a farm you know , so I 'll try and sort of make you know equal amount of flowers in each , and then er it can be halved . |
| 23 | ‘ I was brought up in the countryside . |
| 24 | I was brought up in the cloister , and have Latin and French as well as English and Welsh . ’ |
| 25 | I was brought up in the days of the old Police Acts . |
| 26 | I was brought up before the era of sex education and I managed to get by . |
| 27 | ‘ We 're going to take a few more , ’ and I was ushered up onto the big machine . |
| 28 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
| 29 | I was travelling up from the English coast on my way to London to arrange the final leg of my journey home . |
| 30 | I was caught up in the Truby King Mothercraft doctrine of 1935 … |