Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until the South African mines were opened up during the last decade of the nineteenth century , diamonds were obtained exclusively from alluvial deposits , often those which also produced gold . |
| 2 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 3 | Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over . |
| 4 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 5 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |