Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [verb] up in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not designer stubble , this was getting up in the morning and not being bothered . |
| 2 | Shortly afterwards came the Chronica Gentis Scottorum of John of Fordun , again stressing the achievements of the Scots , and the villainy of Edward I. This was followed up in the early fifteenth century by the verse chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun , prior of Lochleven . |
| 3 | Six was brought up in the family business but declining trade prompted him to retire early and devote himself to the wide range of interests typical of an eighteenth-century intellectual , although there is no evidence that he ever received any formal training . |
| 4 | Most of these were set up in the early 1970s , often from existing sites rather than de novo . |
| 5 | And when it is burnt in large amounts , then the CO 2 that was taken up in the ancient world over a period of , say , a million years , may be released into the modern world in just a few years . |
| 6 | The last was set up in the seventies when apparently some defector had cast some doubt on Mills . |