Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time we were to follow up the three months with a twelve-week season at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven , Connecticut . |
| 2 | It was the random collisions melding the rocky substances , plus turbulent accretions , that were to make up the inner planets . |
| 3 | As Hennessy was opening up the grey lockers at the end of the room , Donaldson spelt Bobo again . |
| 4 | Susan , an unwonted flush on her pale cheeks , was picking up the wet things out of the grate . |
| 5 | His intention was to pick up the 18,000 troops assembled in the area behind Quiberon known as the Morbihan and transport them to Scotland , as the first stage of the great invasion plan . |
| 6 | His task was to set up a dummy gems firm in Bombay . |
| 7 | I assumed you 'd want to know that wreckage of a dinghy was washed up a few miles north of here on the Welsh coast last night . |
| 8 | However , a new 375g pack at £1.19 was introduced on February 8th and until the old stock was used up the two packs were on sale side by side . |
| 9 | The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’ |
| 10 | Conventional Hollywood thinking in the late 1930s was summed up a few years later by Raymond Moley when he was discussing the general ethics of the Production Code . |
| 11 | A good example of this is the Lambeth Lesbian and Gay Group which was set up a few years ago and whose meetings I attended three or four times . |
| 12 | The American cruised the Solent for a few days while Mark was tying up the loose ends , and returned to the States without paying another visit to his office . |
| 13 | ‘ When I was setting up the Fine Chemicals Manufacturing Organization [ FCMO ] in the early '80s , there was no doubt quality was the main way to compete more effectivey and raise performance . |
| 14 | I was then brought up to this room , in which , at that point of the day , the sun was lighting up the floral patterns of the wallpaper quite agreeably . |
| 15 | He had a sneaking suspicion Philpott had members of staff whose sole function was to dig up the personal indiscretions of those people who could be beneficial to UNACO , then use them as a form of blackmail to get what he wanted . |