Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [vb pp] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we neared Arran the clouds became denser , and in turn cast deep shadows over the Firth and the Arran coast , or were lit up with a glow of intensely bright sunlight ; while the glory of Arran , its mountain-peaks , were lost amid the clouds that enshrouded them . |
| 2 | I would say that if a person is locked up from that time at night , there 's circumstances , their perhaps observation for their own safety , erm any body else that can be trusted at night sanitation are not locked in , they have the facilities to go to the toilet during the night , I mean this person that 's just said must of obviously been ob observation or was locked up for a reason . |
| 3 | For example , as far back as 1923 a sub-committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence had looked into the distribution of doctors , dentists and hospital services in a future war ( in effect , tasks that were taken up by the Emergency Medical Service in 1938 ) , and air raid precautions had been discussed within Whitehall since 1924 by the Air Raid Precautions Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence ( which relinquished responsibility for this to the Home Office in 1935 ) |
| 4 | The numerous non-manufacturing subsidiaries ( such as travel agencies , restaurants and computer software firms ) that were set up in the late 1980s are most vulnerable . |
| 5 | Another of the benefits of the travelling team system was the camaraderie that was built up between the players , all of whom were effectively competing with each other for Davis Cup recognition . |
| 6 | The idea was that Davis would be the anchor man , the resident musician , and every week we would have one paid performer who would be highlighted as performer of the week , a tradition that was kept up throughout the history of the folk club and the Arts Lab . |
| 7 | The team that was made up of the remnants from Roxburgh 's original squad — and three of those conscripted to compensate for nine weekend call-offs — distinguished themselves at Ibrox and none more so than Duncan Ferguson , of Dundee United . |
| 8 | I 'd like to move with th er , I I think tha wi given wi , though we have n't got all that much time , can we move onto another area that was brought up at the beginning of the programme which was erm the use of animals in recreation and er Lisa particularly mentioned hunting , now , she thinks hunting should be banned , do you ? |
| 9 | He found her where she clung to a rope that was curled up in a corner of the iron ship and picked her up and carried her through a secret tunnel down through the floor of the ship , down through the underwater creatures , deep into the earth beneath the swirling sea . |
| 10 | He worked for the KGB at the time and he knew everything because he was involved in the secret inquiry that was set up into the ‘ incident ’ , as he called it . |
| 11 | In this article , Veronica Hanson describes a scheme that was set up by the Welsh Pre-school Playgroups Association ( PPA ) to encourage the integration into local playgroups of children who experience difficulties in learning . |
| 12 | One of the initiatives er was er the Congress the Wa all Wales Congress that was set up in the miner 's strike for instance . |
| 13 | The triplet , reunited with its mother , was heading back towards the flock that was bunched up against the top fence . |
| 14 | And not to that kind of limp posture that was summed up by the princ principal of the theological college er with the word inertia . |
| 15 | I cos I ca n't picture another stone you know on any other roadsides and I 've been on plenty that and I travel and no and I can never know of another st stone that was put up to a tramp . |
| 16 | Spain 's Alcatel Sesa SA has taken control of two Polish companies , PZT Telkom , which employs 640 people in Warsaw , and Teletra , which has about 1,300 employees making public telephone exchanges ; Alcatel Sesa said it would guarantee jobs for 1,650 people at the two firms for the next 18 months and committed itself to increasing the capital of the two companies by another $25m within a year ; it plans to start manufacturing the Alcatel 1000 S-12 exchange in Poland , where it says it has already built eight digital exchanges in Poland with a $60m credit that was put up by the Spanish government . |
| 17 | The next day , after the thirty-third night spent on the exitless side of a bed that was shoved up against a wall and that also housed a physiotherapist called Daphne , an air hostess called Olga , and Olga 's dopey Teddy bear , I got out of the bottom of the bed unheard and thought , No . |
| 18 | The other 43 patients underwent long term endoprosthesis placement and were followed up for a mean of 15.9 months ; six ( 15% ) developed cholangitis requiring surgery or endoscopic clearance of the ducts , there were no biliary related deaths . |
| 19 | ‘ Then the mist came nearer until it reached a man and an eagle and before her eyes they turned to stone and were raised up as a single standing stone , to point up into the sky . |
| 20 | Finally that evening the engine pulled into Maidstone where they disembarked , and were put up for the night at the local barracks of the Royal West Kents . |
| 21 | Within half an hour of leaving Rockford , the convoy had reached its destination and were drawn up on the verge alongside the perimeter fence , just short of the big front gates of Bethlehem House . |
| 22 | And er really when you sort of l look at the children who were born during the war and were brought up during the war , they 're all pretty strong and healthy . |
| 23 | Men who had been asleep and were woken up by the noise did not appear to resent it but sat up on one elbow and stared . |
| 24 | shades they were made in Finland they were the paper pleated ones , er , most of them , no , no not most of them , a lot of them fitted er close up onto the ceiling where they 're intended for centre lights and were held up onto the ceiling with a little spring , erm , they also did some quite nice pleated paper shades , er at a time when you find that most electrical shops were , would have er the old type of erm what is it , imitation silk shades with fringes round them , er fringe at the top and fringe at the bottom and so on sort of thing , when the , when those was sort of old of age everywhere , it was just the same as it 'd been before the war , er it was , you know , quite right really to see these all in different colours , completely plain , but pleated shades but in just one particular colour each shade . |
| 25 | They just went in head first and was swallowed up in the road . |
| 26 | Behind the window , the putty face watched as a Moran , large and grey-speckled with red comb and wattles picked her way across the gravel carriage sweep , paused for a moment beside the bed of unpruned roses and was swallowed up in the shadows of the shrubbery . |
| 27 | The meeting on Jan. 8 , 1990 , was attended by 10,000-15,000 people and was broken up by the police , one person being arrested . |
| 28 | The box was always somewhere on the floor by his bed , and was tied up with a bow , as if it was a precious parcel or a gift intended for a special person ; the bow was tied from a length of scarlet nylon ribbon which Boy had seen in the dustbin outside a florist 's , and had stolen , and taken home and ironed , having sensed at once that its splendid colour made it suitable for the tying up of this very special box . |
| 29 | The initial draft received many letters of comment from both camps and was followed up with a public debate in Glasgow . |
| 30 | I sat on it , and was pulled up to the island . |