Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] up [prep] the " 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 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 She wandered across the laboratory to where it was propped up against the wall .
8 It was pushed up to the top of the page .
9 As the boat rammed the steel plates , fabric ripping as it was dragged up against the rough barnacled side , he fired .
10 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 .
11 Yeah , well it , it was locked up in the shed and the shed was
12 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 .
13 Ghana symbolised West Africa before it was carved up by the Europeans ; it symbolised the African federation Nkrumah longed to assemble .
14 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
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 It was taken up by the Armenian Dashnaktsutiun , the Byelorussian Socialist Hromada , and the Georgian Socialist Federation party ( Sakartvelo ) .
18 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 .
19 Later , it was taken up by the communications industry and developed into worldwide markets .
20 She explained that once the gene mist was inhaled it was taken up by the body 's cells and corrected the defect .
21 It was laid up during the war and last ran in 1962 .
22 It was picked up on the fourth ring by an answerphone .
23 They discarded the broken spar over the side where it was picked up by the Nippon tender .
24 It was thrown up after the war to house the car workers .
25 ‘ Most of it was sopped up by the double thickness of the collar at the back but it soaked down through .
26 The gist of it was summed up in the formula cuius regio , eius religio which meant that each king or prince had the right to choose the religion of his subjects .
27 The actual region where the house was situated was called the Périgord , and it was divided up into the White , the Green and the Black .
28 And the fact that it was divvied up in the pubs I
29 Rather than bury the flesh and fat in France , it was sealed up with the bones in a leaden case , together with an enormous quantity of spices .
30 It was lined up with the erm , the title of that column ,
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