Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take one simple example : in 1975 journalists Sydney Schanberg , Jon Swain and photographer Al Rockoff were holed up in the French Embassy in Phnom Penh trying to come up with a way of preventing Dith Pran being taken by the Khmer Rouge and to get out of there alive . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 4 | Mo was curled up in a bundle under the eiderdown . |
| 5 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 6 | United were wobbling ; Hoddle was winding up for a big finish . |
| 7 | The lights went down further , and I guessed Kruger was working up to the big climax , whatever that was . |
| 8 | The Youngs were standing up in the dining room , ready to go to bed . |
| 9 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 10 | Florida was opened up as a winter resort in the 1890s by Henrys Flagler and Plant , both millionaires and railroad company owners . |
| 11 | Nicholson was caught up in the aftermath and became Hollywood 's hottest property to emerge for two decades . |
| 12 | And so it was that Luch was taken up to the castle for the second time . |
| 13 | Some of those taking ; part were already in costume : Jilly Fox was wearing what looked like an Iranian chadour , contrived from a sheet , Karen Gray was dressed up as a nurse , and Bob Saxby who taught pottery was encased in a Michelin-man spacesuit which he claimed was an Arctic explorer 's sleeping bag . |
| 14 | At the Raja 's insistence Tara was chained up to a 500 year old tree . |
| 15 | Moses was brought up in a high-ranking Egyptian family and then , later in life , led a lowly people , the Jews . |
| 16 | Henry Lees deserted his family and Florence was brought up by a half-brother , an Oxford don , who sent her to school in London . |
| 17 | From the very first moment of her return to the vicarage Ruth was caught up in a whirlwind of work . |
| 18 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 19 | Frank was brought up in the Hollywood studio tradition and expected producers to exert a large amount of control , but Lester 's lack of freedom did not stop him changing parts of the script — including all of Gawford 's scenes — and reducing the number of songs . |
| 20 | Aziz and Hasan were caught up in a maze of stout shoes , Sherley 's extendable dog-leads and sniffing , quivering red setters , corgis , Jack Russells , Old English Sheepdogs and pugs . |
| 21 | Pylon inquiry : inspectors explain how the hearing will be conducted Guidelines on how the pylons public inquiry would be run in North Yorkshire were drawn up at a meeting in Northallerton this week . |
| 22 | The Argentines were lined up on a cliff and their riddled bodies toppled into a mass grave below , he claims . |
| 23 | When we reached the hospital , four cars and a Land Rover were drawn up at the bungalow . |
| 24 | Henry Hughton was snapped up on a free-transfer for Palace from Orient and was arguably one of Manager Alan Mullery 's best signing for the club , because Henry 's amazing versatility became extremely useful in several difficult seasons at Selhurst Park . |
| 25 | Hasan was sitting up at the table , eating a large slice of toast . |
| 26 | But Donald was doubled up on the sofa . |
| 27 | The BMW was held up by the set of traffic lights just before Brewer Street . |
| 28 | Late in the night , towards moonset , Hazel was looking up from a cut where they were crouching to a little bank above . |
| 29 | Described as ‘ kind-hearted , yet … a lively and obstinate boy , , Tom was brought up in a prosperous house ( his father was a manager of a textile firm ) and was used to a well-stocked meal table . |
| 30 | And very soon after that , Matilda was moved up into the top form where Miss Plimsoll quickly discovered that this amazing child was every bit as bright as Miss Honey had said . |