Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually the last time I was stood up on a platform and did this was in front of erm a S G T congress in Dieppe and I tell you I had to do it in French , and it was much more difficult so I 'm hoping this one will go smoothly , but I , what I 'd really like to do is begin with is offer you erm delegates and platform both , a very very warm welcome from the trade union movement in Portsmouth . |
| 2 | A few days ago when I was hooked up to a foetal monitor , a midwife rushed in , not to ask how I was , but to see if I knew the latest on the war . |
| 3 | In 1672 , for example , the Dutch Cromwell , de Witt , was torn limb from limb in the street by a frenzied mob , and in 1986 I was beaten up in a bar . |
| 4 | ‘ I was locked up in a room with a ghost , in the dark . ’ |
| 5 | I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram . |
| 6 | As I was brought up on a farm I 'm used to working with my hands and in all weathers . |
| 7 | My mother died when I was fifteen , but I was brought up by a series of incompetent governesses and I saw little of either parent . |
| 8 | I was brought up in a generation where there were only two kinds of girls — girls who did and girls who did n't . |
| 9 | I was brought up in a hard school , Mrs Willow , and I do n't forget it . |
| 10 | I think with erm , I I was brought up in a household where it was com , completely legitimate to admit to being depressed and that you would just have to cope , I think cope perhaps my most |
| 11 | I was brought up in a pit village near Bishop Auckland and I never knew my father . |
| 12 | But I was brought up in a Catholic Home you see . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I was brought up in a vicarage myself and know how things are or can be , ’ he said confusedly . |
| 14 | No heroes or heroines from TV ever entered my world , for I was brought up in a society that banned television . |
| 15 | I was brought up in a different era where you had to entertain yourself . |
| 16 | Before I landed Brookside I was washing up in a wine bar so the experience obviously came in handy for playing Chrissie . ’ |
| 17 | The scheme certainly helped me right at the beginning when I was starting up as a criminal lawyer . |
| 18 | I was trussed up like a chicken for roasting . |
| 19 | I was actually mugged on holiday er then years ago and I was held up with a gun and it was the most horrendous feeling |
| 20 | I joined it at Sanguinaro , where I was held up by a Feldgendarm on a motorcycle . |
| 21 | I was caught up in a closed , warm world of physical pleasure . |
| 22 | And that 's why I 'm saying that , leading up to the Donovan Report and because I was caught up in a situation along with my colleagues , that we were changing a system er and you know , a new incentive scheme , that we were increasing production . |
| 23 | I was picked up by a taxi driver once and we were going along and he said , ‘ Oh , I know that voice — oh , do n't tell me — you 're Jeremy Pascal , are n't you ? ’ |
| 24 | A judge in New York on July 11 ruled that the US airline Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am ) was guilty of " wilful misconduct " in its security procedures for baggage on its flight PA103 in December 1988 which was blown up by a bomb over Lockerbie , Scotland , killing 270 people [ see pp. 36409-10 ] . |
| 25 | She was tall , a little on the stout side , and had long brown hair with one or two streaks of grey in it which was caught up in a bun perched on the top of her head . |
| 26 | He glanced down at his thick cock , which was standing up like a telegraph pole . |
| 27 | Scotland showed superior power in the scrum but could not capitalise on their possession , and Western Samoa , who scored three tries to one , produced flowing play which was backed up by a strong play in the lineouts . |
| 28 | He flicked a switch on the percolator , which was set up in a recess above one of the work-benches , and reached for a fresh mug . |
| 29 | The recycling scheme is run by the non-profit making Save-a-Cup Recycling Company which was set up by a group of plastic cup manufacturers and a number of companies in the UK vending and foodservice industries just over a year ago . |
| 30 | The pale yellow flowers of the traveller 's joy entwined in the hedgerows brought no happiness to David Waterlane stuck behind a convoy of cars on the Midhurst Road which was held up by a huge lorry with a sign saying ‘ Horses ’ on the back . |