Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the army was , it were built up like the er , er Mafia , it were built on fear , yes |
| 2 | Thus , with a rate of inflation averaging 4% in the 1980s , the £58 licence fee set in 1985 would have had to increase by £7 by 1988 if it were to keep up with the increase in the general price level only . |
| 3 | it were rolled up in a wood set er cardboard cylinder and it fetched half a million did n't it ? |
| 4 | And then it was taken out and er dripped and cleaned , and then it was hung up in the kitchen to dry , and that was how the hams were done . |
| 5 | but erm er I think that er that picture I borrowed , I mean with her permission of course , erm and er I think it was hung up in the bathroom or somewhere , which was not the best place for a photograph to be really . |
| 6 | It was dug up in a ploughed field in South Worcestershire … the precise location is being kept secret . |
| 7 | It was dug up in the sixteenth century and achieved fame almost immediately , entering the imperial collections , and being drawn by artists such as Apianus in 1534 . |
| 8 | It is , in fact , possible to go beyond the association of these particular principles with democracy , and say that the emergence of politics as we understand it was tied up with the emergence of democracy in ancient Greece . |
| 9 | It was tied up in a parcel . |
| 10 | She wandered across the laboratory to where it was propped up against the wall . |
| 11 | It was pushed up to the top of the page . |
| 12 | As the boat rammed the steel plates , fabric ripping as it was dragged up against the rough barnacled side , he fired . |
| 13 | The road was owned by Mr Dalison who gave it to the parish , in 1892 and it was made up at the cost of £40 and the improvements to the cemetery cost a further £21 140 . |
| 14 | Yeah , well it , it was locked up in the shed and the shed was |
| 15 | They had a two year romance in the thirties but it was broken up by the war and the appearance of Rose 's first husband . |
| 16 | Ghana symbolised West Africa before it was carved up by the Europeans ; it symbolised the African federation Nkrumah longed to assemble . |
| 17 | book , she wrote a list out what she wanted , she used to hand it , I remember , I 'd forgotten all about this , let's just say we were at the Co-Op , she 'd hand it in at the counter so the , the groceries counter all , and she 'd written it all out , and when it came back it was , was five minutes , it was all together for you , there it was , it was built up on the counter , and each time the amount was written at the side so |
| 18 | When it was taken up with the Headmaster he said that the boy 's name was not on the roll , they did not know of him . |
| 19 | A critic had coined a phrase for them and it was taken up as a catch phrase — ‘ They dance as one woman and what a woman . ’ |
| 20 | The kitchen occupied the lower storey of the dwelling and most of the space in it was taken up by a lemon wood table and four rush-seated chairs decorated in traditional colours and floral patterns . |
| 21 | The same has turned out to be true of show-jumping , a little-known landed pursuit before it was taken up by the BBC as a sport which might appeal to women , especially when Pat Smythe rode Flanagan to four European Championship victories between 1957 and 1963 . |
| 22 | It was taken up by the Armenian Dashnaktsutiun , the Byelorussian Socialist Hromada , and the Georgian Socialist Federation party ( Sakartvelo ) . |
| 23 | It was taken up by the Hellenistic astronomers , became the standard astronomical system of reference in the Middle Ages , and was even used by Copernicus in his lunar and planetary tables . |
| 24 | Later , it was taken up by the communications industry and developed into worldwide markets . |
| 25 | She explained that once the gene mist was inhaled it was taken up by the body 's cells and corrected the defect . |
| 26 | It was laid up during the war and last ran in 1962 . |
| 27 | It was picked up on a £300 scanner near Andrew 's naval base at Portland , Dorset . |
| 28 | It was picked up on the fourth ring by an answerphone . |
| 29 | It was picked up after a couple of rings . |
| 30 | They discarded the broken spar over the side where it was picked up by the Nippon tender . |