Example sentences of "was [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when Zbo explained that Modi was coughing up blood they chased him away . |
| 2 | Very red and frothy , frothy colour blood , okay , supposing I had er damaged the lining of the stomach , or perhaps I 've had an ulcer that I 've perforated , and I was coughing up blood from the stomach what colour might that be ? |
| 3 | Teal Green was coughing up a lungful of smoke when the Base was plunged into darkness . |
| 4 | And before I could resolve the problem I was struggling up in bed , in the pitch blackness , reaching for the shrilling telephone . |
| 5 | She was struggling up , bent under a heavy sack . |
| 6 | But Seb was struggling up from the table . |
| 7 | I saw a gadget the other day that 's two , two plastic circles with handles on , mm , I think I paid about seven pounds and this was to gather up leaves and big lot of |
| 8 | The snow was easing up and last-minute shoppers were everywhere . |
| 9 | Marco was kneeling up in his seat , turning round to check the control panel . |
| 10 | He was kneeling up . |
| 11 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 12 | ‘ But I was tucked up in bed early — not difficult in Dresden you know , they do n't have West German television down there — oh ! |
| 13 | When his father was tucked up for the night , the son would wander out into the garden and enjoy the cool air as a contrast to the fug of the sick-room . |
| 14 | ‘ But I will always stand by him , whether he is right or wrong — in this case I think he was tucked up just a bit . ’ |
| 15 | That evening , when Rachel was tucked up in bed sleeping , the moment came when Fred could contain his suspicions no longer , as Carrie had expected . |
| 16 | Back home , after Alexander had dropped them off and Emily was tucked up fast asleep in bed , Lisa even forced a smile of admiration at his duplicity . |
| 17 | Five minutes later she was tucked up in bed , sleeping happily once again , while Jake had retreated to his little ante-room . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Noble sold the mill and by 1887 it had been taken over by Moses John Mason who , at his peak , was producing up to four tons of millboard per week . |
| 20 | It was calculated that the United States was using up eighteen tons of raw material per head of population per year , or ten times as much as the average citizen of the rest of the non-Communist world . |
| 21 | Well we did take some er legal advice on it and we were told that it was not illegal , erm I mean we think it 's highly immoral erm , but we were told it was not illegal , because they did not actually use the er the redundancy money did not come out of the fund , only this enhanced pension etcetera which was using up the , the surplus and we were told |
| 22 | One of their colleagues had vanished in mysterious circumstances and all they could do was make up imaginary England cricket teams . |
| 23 | So it failed to turn the heating element off … and the oil was boiled up to 185 degrees centigrade … turning the liquid into explosive vapour . |
| 24 | GRANDMOTHER Phyllis O'Riley was cooking up a special present for herself last night after scooping the £10,000 jackpot on Mirror Bingo . |
| 25 | When they came to the apartment , Mary-Claude was cooking up a storm in the kitchen , Sarah was squalling in her crib in the front bedroom and in the back it was wall-to-wall Star Wars , with all the electronic gear we had in there . |
| 26 | It was none too soon ; smoke-grey clouds scurried across the sky and even in the harbour the wind was whipping up little white-topped waves . |
| 27 | Amy was propped up on pillows , reading an old copy of the Lady . |
| 28 | A large handwritten notice was propped up by the door — Bürge bleibt hier ( guarantors ' seats here ) — with an arrow pointing that way . |
| 29 | Elizabeth was propped up on the pillows , with the baby lying in the cradle by the bed . |
| 30 | Straining his eyes , he could just make out the two boxes which were stacked in the far corner of the room and a picture frame which was propped up against them . |