Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike . |
| 2 | I followed him out of the City until I was convinced he was packing up for the day . |
| 3 | Richard 's face was bleeding and she knew he was shouting up at the people . |
| 4 | He wriggled back further on the bed till he was leaning up against the wall . |
| 5 | At the storming of this fortress on 19 January he was blown up at the head of his brigade when a French magazine exploded , killing 108 men . |
| 6 | While there he was called up by the England squad when the touring team ran into injury trouble last summer . |
| 7 | While there he was called up by the England squad when the touring team ran into injury trouble last summer . |
| 8 | Recently he was called up by the Customs and Excise about 20 videos ( mostly tapes from TV ) a friend had sent him from America . |
| 9 | He was looking up at the sign over the door . |
| 10 | He was b he was born up in the mountains |
| 11 | He was swallowed up in the fog . |
| 12 | As he was led up from the cells and into a cage , there was bedlam in the courtroom . |
| 13 | He was tied up in the garden but was put in a pen at night . |
| 14 | It would give him pleasure to make jokes that were n't funny while he was dressed up in the wedding-dress of a woman he claimed had been murdered also . |
| 15 | He was gazing up at the stars , probably communing with the Mother Ship and receiving new instructions . |
| 16 | He was fed up with the whole situation , and all Francesca 's family . |
| 17 | He was fed up with the politics of big business . |
| 18 | He was drawing up outside the hall when he thought of Graham Young . |
| 19 | By day 22 he was getting up at the ‘ correct ’ time ( that is , his morning and real morning coincided ) , but had lost a whole day . |
| 20 | During the sittings , he was always in good spirits ; and as long as you did not try to glimpse what he was putting up on the canvas , he would dilate on any subject that took his fancy . |
| 21 | When he arrived in Bristol he was put up in the old Bright 's ( temperance ) Hotel at the rear of the present Dingle 's store . |
| 22 | Even during the summer term he was wrapped up against the elements in waterproof jacket and leggings — his head encased in a leather helmet with ear-flaps . |
| 23 | When Keating painted in the style of Palmer , he was picked up by the Fraud Squad . |
| 24 | Ronnie , 54 , hit the headlines when he thumped the mayor in the face after his civic car ran over Christmas lights he was stringing up in the centre of Frome , Somerset . |
| 25 | Thakin Thein Pe made his way out to India where he received scant encouragement until he was taken up by the cloak-and-dagger organisation , Force 136 , which was desperately trying to justify its mysterious and expensive existence . |
| 26 | Until he was taken up by the Princesse Mathilde . |
| 27 | He was set up as the triggerman for the massacre by those forces inside President F.W. de Klerk 's administration determined to hang on to white power at all costs . |
| 28 | If Darwin showed biologically that evolution was nature 's way of natural selection and continual improvement , he was backed up on the social level by all the great social theorists who taught one version or another of perpetual progress . |
| 29 | She turned around , groping for the door-handle , and saw he was staring up at the small terraced house with interest . |
| 30 | Despite the fact that he was personally on only the periphery of the Polanski affair , he was caught up in the backwash , in the resultant discussion of the wider issues of the counter-culture , and it was in this category that the critics had firmly placed their new star as the analysis of his role in Easy Rider continued through the run-up to the Oscar presentations and beyond . |