Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reason bein' , we did a complete sweep of the whole area outside the perimeter of the grounds , jes ' in case our man wuz lyin' up in the vicinity . |
| 2 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 3 | They said whole fields were ripped up into the air ! |
| 4 | ‘ The anti-aircraft rockets I fired were propelled up to a height of 1,000 yards . |
| 5 | If we understand the cold war as imaginary war , a situation in which the Fordist variant of capitalism needed the stalinist variant of socialism , in which the two systems were propped up by a never-ending pretend confrontation , then the collapse of communism was bound to lead to a dramatic reaction in the West . |
| 6 | The year 1973 came close to repeating the triumphs of 1972 but , as usual in FI , other cars were catching up with the Lotus , though not in qualifying , for 1973 was the year in which Ronnie Peterson notched an astonishing nine pole positions and a place on the front row in twelve of the season 's fifteen races , as against one and five for Emerson , Peterson finishing a mere three points behind Fittipaldi . |
| 7 | They were catching up with an interrupted past , not forestalling a proletarian future . |
| 8 | On 26 December , 114 Lower Church Street and adjoining properties which had been leased to W. A. Reeves , the furnisher , since the offices were given up by the South Metropolitan Company , were sold to him . |
| 9 | They were building up to a strong finish with ‘ The Skater 's Waltz ’ and Noreen knew her number would go up next . |
| 10 | They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 11 | Often these were the starting points of big demonstrations which were broken up by the police . |
| 12 | The demonstrations were broken up by the security forces and according to unsubstantiated BPP sources some 300 people were killed during the security operation . |
| 13 | it were rolled up in a wood set er cardboard cylinder and it fetched half a million did n't it ? |
| 14 | For a subject search , the words of the user 's search were looked up in an index containing words from title-like fields and subject headings , and from corporate names . |
| 15 | Fig. 3 showed that the clones of RAP74 whose C-terminal sequences were deleted up to the 171th amino acid residue ( lanes 2,3 and 4 ) stimulated the CAT activity to the same extent as the wild type clone , but further deletion of the C-terminal sequence up to the 128th residue resulted in a complete loss of the CAT activity ( lane 5 ) . |
| 16 | After a slower than expected march we were gearing up on the famous Green Ledge in bright sunshine — the Ennerdale mountains stretching away like the bony spine of a slumbering dragon . |
| 17 | In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers . |
| 18 | But while they were gearing up for the Hi-de-Hi job , Wirral 's Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals went short of clean bedlinen . |
| 19 | The two men were picked up on the Ross ice shelf , about 350 miles from the coastal camp at Scott base which was their original target . |
| 20 | Twenty-five days later three survivors , all wounded , were picked up from a raft and taken to Capetown . |
| 21 | They were picked up by a Kalafrana H.S.L. ( High Speed Launch ) and proved to be the crew of a Ju87 . |
| 22 | All the bills were picked up by a consortium of local banks and newspapers . |
| 23 | There they were picked up by a white ship crewed by the remnants of the Queen 's Guard . |
| 24 | His choice of words , perhaps , was unfortunate , especially as they were picked up by a TV microphone and broadcast clearly to the nations . |
| 25 | The refugees were picked up by a convoy of buses at the Austrian border . |
| 26 | In the 1970s , Mr Chihana spent seven years in prison as one of thousands of prisoners of conscience who were picked up by the regime but were never charged . |
| 27 | The efforts of the government and the reversal of the alliance with the intellectuals failed to keep out a trickle of French newspapers : contraband books were picked up by the Inquisition all over Spain between 1790 and 1792 . |
| 28 | In early February , in the city of Hamedan , a teenage couple talking in the street were picked up by the ’ revolutionary guards . ’ |
| 29 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 30 | And er guys started to go down that to the twenty foot level where they were picked up by an inflatable off the standby boat . |