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Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] up in [art] " in BNC.

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1	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 .
2	‘ I was locked up in a room with a ghost , in the dark . ’
3	I was wrapped up in an officer 's uniform ; you could n't see me for fur and leather .
4	I was brought up in a generation where there were only two kinds of girls — girls who did and girls who did n't .
5	I was brought up in a hard school , Mrs Willow , and I do n't forget it .
6	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
7	I was brought up in a pit village near Bishop Auckland and I never knew my father .
8	But I was brought up in a Catholic Home you see .
9	‘ Well , I was brought up in a vicarage myself and know how things are or can be , ’ he said confusedly .
10	No heroes or heroines from TV ever entered my world , for I was brought up in a society that banned television .
11	I was brought up in a different era where you had to entertain yourself .
12	It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation .
13	I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English .
14	As a male Caucasian with a father who had died of a coronary thrombosis at the age of 59 , I was brought up in the smoky atmosphere of a northern industrial town .
15	Like most people , I was brought up in the belief that a nightmare was something bad that happened while you were asleep .
16	And it it was , I mean I was brought up in the country and it , I found it really shocking that people had to live like that , you know .
17	I was brought up in the country , on a farm you know , so I 'll try and sort of make you know equal amount of flowers in each , and then er it can be halved .
18	‘ I was brought up in the countryside .
19	I was brought up in the cloister , and have Latin and French as well as English and Welsh . ’
20	I was brought up in the days of the old Police Acts .
21	Before I landed Brookside I was washing up in a wine bar so the experience obviously came in handy for playing Chrissie . ’
22	I was caught up in a closed , warm world of physical pleasure .
23	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 .
24	I was caught up in the Truby King Mothercraft doctrine of 1935 …
25	I was woken up in the night sometimes , the spare bed in my room being made up for someone they 'd met down the Club , the other lodger 's room already occupied .
26	‘ You live in … in that house ? ’ he asked , surprised , pointing to Thornfield Hall , which was lit up in the moonlight .
27	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 .
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	Bric-a-brac was donated and sold on the stall which was set up in the factory canteen .
30	The future of Lothar and his supporters was settled when Louis met them at Blois in September : The emperor sat in his pavilion which was set up in the middle of a wide field on a hill where the whole army could see him , and his faithful sons [ Pippin and Louis ] stood beside him .