Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up [prep] the old " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that they were climbing up into the older parts of the mine above the Grand Level to ascertain whether all the worthwhile ore had been taken out . |
| 2 | Those who were brought up on the older theories of the Westminster model in which , despite party loyalties , there was a balance between the executive and the legislature as a whole , expect that the House of Commons will still regard its main functions as being to consider and amend legislative proposals from the government ( and from private members ) , to scrutinize public expenditure and to expose government policies to continual questioning and debate . |
| 3 | The television-viewing public was made up of the older stay-at-homes , not the swinging exotics whose exploits filled the front pages of the newspapers . |
| 4 | Fig. 126 shows the pediment as it was set up in the old museum , an arrangement that is certainly wrong . |
| 5 | After Zarathustra 's death his religion was taken up by the old priestly class known as the Magi and eventually became the faith of the Achaemenid dynasty . |
| 6 | When he arrived in Bristol he was put up in the old Bright 's ( temperance ) Hotel at the rear of the present Dingle 's store . |