Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 2 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 3 | The lights went down further , and I guessed Kruger was working up to the big climax , whatever that was . |
| 4 | Nicholson was caught up in the aftermath and became Hollywood 's hottest property to emerge for two decades . |
| 5 | And so it was that Luch was taken up to the castle for the second time . |
| 6 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Hasan was sitting up at the table , eating a large slice of toast . |
| 9 | But Donald was doubled up on the sofa . |
| 10 | The BMW was held up by the set of traffic lights just before Brewer Street . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Inter-governmental Bureau of Informatics was set up by the United Nations . |
| 13 | Such attitudes were reinforced by the increased contact with more remote societies as tropical Africa was opened up during the later decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | Lawrence had been drafted into the lineup following a finger injury suffered by Chris Lewis , while Botham was called up at the 11th hour to win his 100th cap when Derek Pringle 's sore back failed to respond to treatment . |
| 15 | The PSP reconsidered their policy of total opposition to the guerrilla strategy late in July 1958 , when Carlos Rafael Rodriguez was sent up into the Sierra , where he encountered ‘ understanding ’ in Rául 's encampment and ’ suspicion' in Fidel 's ( Thomas : 1977 , pp. 220–1 ) . |
| 16 | Last year , the initiative for an open day for justice in the Cour d'Appel in Paris was taken up with the Lord Chancellor 's Department . |
| 17 | When Jeff Tyson was put up for the job of guitarist for Californian metal trio T-Ride the recommendation came from his ex-guitar teacher , Joe Satriani . |
| 18 | It seems that Meg was washing up in the pantry yesterday when Mr Swinton came in from the shore as is his custom in the afternoons , and you were with him ! |
| 19 | An emissary from London to St Petersburg was picked up at the imperial frontier and a large number of compromising letters fell into the hands of tsarist investigators . |
| 20 | But Seb was struggling up from the table . |
| 21 | By the beginning of the nineteenth century Siberia was divided up into the three governorships ( gubemii ) of Tobolsk , Tomsk and Irkutsk , each of them further subdivided , like any other guberniya in the empire , into a number of regions ( oblasti ) and districts ( uezdy ) . |
| 22 | Taylor Woodrow was set up after the unintended sale of two houses by a 16-year old greengrocer 's son and his solicitor uncle . |
| 23 | At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school . |
| 24 | Even Trepper was captured and the Rote Kapelle was wound up at the end of 1942 . |
| 25 | World Junior steeplechase champion Jimmy Muindi was snapped up at the beginning of the week and he will be joined in the Daily Mirror/Manx Airlines 10K road race by Josphat Ndeti and Zablon Miano . |
| 26 | Born in 1754 , Murdock was brought up to the trade of his father who was a millwright and miller . |
| 27 | When Bill was growing up in the Durham of the 1930s , memories of the Great Strike of 1926 were still sharp and vivid among the mining community . |
| 28 | By now Araminta was backed up against the door , stricken to silence , and Theda came close , her deep grey eyes burning with fury in the flaming setting of her hair . |
| 29 | William completed his five-year stay in Clerkenwell successfully ; by the time it was over his brother Benjamin James was already down in Somerset and Charles Frederick was coming up to the age when he , too , would become an apprentice . |
| 30 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |