Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 26 December , 114 Lower Church Street and adjoining properties which had been leased to W. A. Reeves , the furnisher , since the offices were given up by the South Metropolitan Company , were sold to him . |
| 2 | The two men were picked up on the Ross ice shelf , about 350 miles from the coastal camp at Scott base which was their original target . |
| 3 | Tatham also represented investors who were caught up in the Farrington Stead collapse . |
| 4 | During January 1989 , for example , over 500 bottlenose dolphins were washed up on the Atlantic coast of France . |
| 5 | Quite a number of them were turning up at the BBC and the harassed receptionist was heard to say , as she reported the arrival of yet another , ‘ I 'm sorry , where did you say you were king of ? ’ |
| 6 | With competition becoming intense the first set of Motor Racing rules were drawn up for the Paris-Amsterdam-Paris race of 1898 . |
| 7 | National guidelines were drawn up after the Cairngorms tragedy . |
| 8 | And then he went on and he landed up in Seattle the time they were going up to the Klondike Gold Rush . |
| 9 | Relations between Japan and the USA were bound up with the Gulf crisis [ see above ] , with the USA appearing to want greater financial assistance from Japan ( both for the Gulf operation and for the upkeep of US forces stationed in Japan ) while also seeming unenthusiastic about the prospects of Japan actually deploying forces abroad in any capacity . |
| 10 | Their apprehensions were summed up by the New York Age : ‘ As a black champion , he has given the Negro more trouble by his scandals than he did in twenty years as a black tramp ’ ( quoted by Gillmore , 1975 , p.99 ) . |
| 11 | Advisory Committees were set up by the NEC on 13 March 1918 in order to help to develop the Party 's policies on a wide range of issues and began to publish reports and statements which added to the corpus of Labour policies . |
| 12 | Several silk mills were set up around the Chalford Valley , but the majority made use of the then-vacant woollen mills . |
| 13 | One of them bears a close anatomical resemblance to the marble copies we have after the bronze statues of the Tyrannicides by Kritios and Nesiotes which we know were set up in the Agora , the city centre north-west of the Acropolis , in 477 . |
| 14 | When allegations that Schnur had worked for the Stasi for at least 20 years were first made on March 9 his denials were supported up by the West German government which said that he had on the contrary been passing information on political repression in East Germany to them . |
| 15 | Most of the forms of publicity through print discussed in the first section of this chapter were taken up by the West Indians . |
| 16 | Similar themes were taken up in the Collins lecture of 1988 by Richard Francis , Director General of the British Council . |
| 17 | IT is five years since 11 civilians were blown up by the IRA bomb at Enniskillen 's Remembrance Day Service . |
| 18 | The charges were backed up by the BBC 's Foreign News Editor , John Simpson , who said the film ‘ had no feeling of reality ’ . |
| 19 | In his final statements in the Venezuelan capital Caracas , his last stop , Bush repeated the central message of the tour , that a " new age " was opening up for the Americas . |
| 20 | I got out of Bullwood Hall on a Tuesday and I was picked up on the Thursday , two days later , for robbery . |
| 21 | They discarded the broken spar over the side where it was picked up by the Nippon tender . |
| 22 | A report on these ideas appeared in the medical school newsletter and was picked up by the Boston Globe and the New York Times . |
| 23 | When the Titanic struck its iceberg , Beesley escaped in the underpopulated Lifeboat 13 , and was picked up by the Carpathia . |
| 24 | While it lasted , the Auxiliary did good work , but after the President 's death it declined and eventually was wound up during the Glasgow Congress in 1920 . |
| 25 | The idea was that when that was done , on a signal I was to open up with the Breda and shoot up the café . |
| 26 | Under the programme , which was drawn up by the EC Commission , Albania was to be given 50,000 tonnes of EC wheat ; further donations amounting to 100,000 tonnes of wheat were to be canvassed from other Western countries . |
| 27 | A PUBLIC inquiry is to investigate Armagh area plan which was drawn up by the DoE . |
| 28 | Finally , in April , 1988 , an agenda for withdrawal - many would say retreat - was drawn up in the Geneva accords : all 115,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan would be pulled out by February 15 , 1989 . |
| 29 | When Bill was growing up in the Durham of the 1930s , memories of the Great Strike of 1926 were still sharp and vivid among the mining community . |
| 30 | Spurs have called reserve team striker John Hendry into the squad , plus Nicky Barmby , who was called up to the England Under-21 squad this week . |