Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Zarathustra 's death his religion was taken up by the old priestly class known as the Magi and eventually became the faith of the Achaemenid dynasty . |
| 2 | On this occasion , Plage was set up over a water-hole in a clearing in the jungle , hoping that a leopard would show up to hunt or drink . |
| 3 | A family planning association was set up by the Government in 1972 , and the Government 's First Five Year Plan proposed the promotion of several different types of birth control . |
| 4 | Mary of Guise was brought up in the charmed circles of the greatest French aristocracy . |
| 5 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 6 | Mo was curled up in a bundle under the eiderdown . |
| 7 | Philip Miller 's appreciation was summed up in the Abridgement of 1754 , where he considered roses to have |
| 8 | This seal was washed up on an oil covered beach . |
| 9 | This precise and disheartening indictment was drawn up by the late Dr Enid Starkie , Reader Emeritus in French Literature at the University of Oxford , and Flaubert 's most exhaustive British biographer . |
| 10 | While taxi-ing the crew received an airways clearance and the aircraft was lined up on the runway without delay . |
| 11 | The Group 's responsibility for site-specific geophysical surveys brings with it the parallel responsibility for databasing the considerable archive of material from surveys of this kind made over the 40 years since the Geophysics Department was set up in the former Geological Survey of Great Britain . |
| 12 | In Germany in 1906 a department was set up in the foreign ministry to administer the Reichsschulfonds , money destined for the support of German schools abroad : there , as in Italy , there was a strong feeling that the national language must be kept alive among the large emigrant communities now established overseas . |
| 13 | Ted 's monologue was kept up against the background sounds of the creaking of leather upon leather and the calls of the woodland birds . |
| 14 | Two-thirds of the ground floor of each house in the terrace was taken up by a garage ; the door to Sybil 's stood open with the car inside but the other three were closed , revealing that the owners had differing and not particularly compatible tastes in colour . |
| 15 | Following the other girl 's fixed gaze , Anita noticed that a large black chauffeur-driven limousine was drawing up to the edge of the road . |
| 16 | This is a rare breed in the Massif Central , numbering only 400 by 1978 when a conservation programme was set up under the auspices of the Parc Naturel Régional des Volcans d'Auvergne . |
| 17 | Much of the previous chapter was taken up with the question of what kind of economy is emerging in the UK . |
| 18 | Highfield came back strongly and should have scored in front of the posts but lost possession their hooker was held up on the line , their only reward was a penalty from their captain Terry Dillon . |
| 19 | But the whole study was set up within a much more general theoretical orientation : the theory of linguistic change ; it was not merely an attempt to demonstrate age , class and style differences , as Smith implies . |
| 20 | His stream of talk was dried up at the source . |
| 21 | And sure enough , when he got back , the car was lined up with the arrow . |
| 22 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 23 | At St Asaph , a wine-shop was set up in the cathedral and the font was used as a trough for animals . |
| 24 | We completed the film during the early summer of 1979 and in August Mountbatten was granted the quick but not peaceful death he had asked for when his boat was blown up by an IRA bomb off the west coast of Ireland . |
| 25 | The boat was mooring up on the River Severn when it rolled over , trapping two of them underwater . |
| 26 | Which is where everything starts to fuck up , because the moment we turn our attention to Herr Mayer he tells us that the money he used to pay the Iranians was put up by the son of a well-known local citizen . ’ |
| 27 | Each tape was made up in a random order with the constraint that no two junctions of the same type should appear in consecutive positions within any block . |
| 28 | United were wobbling ; Hoddle was winding up for a big finish . |
| 29 | A working party to tackle the under representation of ethnic minorities at management level in the hospitality industry was set up by the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 30 | The Southampton defender was caught up in the passion of Boro 's FA Cup-tie at Portsmouth last week . |