Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 2 | They had taken refuge from the insects and the dew when sanity returned , and were lying gazing up at the stars . |
| 3 | A second controlled explosion was carried out at 10.55pm and people were told to stay up to a mile away from the scene . |
| 4 | Ray Angel and Brian Hodgson were entrusted to come up with a suitably electronic-sounding voice . |
| 5 | On arrival , conference participants were invited to sign up for a workshop of their choice . |
| 6 | Class divisions hitherto non-existent or only latent in English society were beginning to open up as the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions gained momentum , and popular unrest was in the air . |
| 7 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 8 | The blame fell on pollution ; not the clouds of smoke and occasional waves of sulphur dioxide which were known to drift up from the industrial valleys of the Ruhr and kill off the sensitive firs , but the more insidious long-term changes implied by acid rain . |
| 9 | Nothing more was heard of Cargo , who were rumoured to be considering dropping the loaves outside Dutch territorial waters , until a month ago a number of loaves of bread were found washed up on the Dutch coast . |
| 10 | Amitha : Then the Union Working Party on EOP in which the three of us were involved came up with a very well worked-out response to the EOP Code of Practice on Recruitment and Selection Procedures . |
| 11 | Instead the 20 District Health authorities involved were asked to come up with a £9,000 each by tomorrow afternoon . |
| 12 | There was talk of the whole station 's being moved into purpose-built accommodation some time in the future , but so far nothing definite had been arranged , so they were forced to put up with the cramped conditions and lack of amenities , like parking . |
| 13 | Local farmers , too , were forced to face up to the unpleasant fact that they could no longer compete with the Poles because of the low cost of Polish labour and the high Reich and Polish tariff barriers . |
| 14 | The same with Bartolini pickups , they work best with Bartolini circuits , so that 's brought back into service a couple of basses that were sitting leaning up against a wall in my house . ’ |
| 15 | And the Russians looked to have been the victims of psychological warfare when they were left to warm up without a practice ball . |
| 16 | Cars have been popular in the movies since Mack Sennett was wrecking them around 1914 in such shorts as Lizzies of the Field — not funny to some members of early audiences , who were trying to save up for a Ford Model T or ‘ tin Lizzy ’ . |
| 17 | In particular , they do not include patients who died or were lost to follow up in the prolonged interval between treatment and the onset of symptoms . |
| 18 | How she was goin' to put up with the wee 'un 's fancy talk and fancy ways , she did n't know . |
| 19 | Then a car was heard pulling up at the gate ; either the bridal car or their uncle had come . |
| 20 | The good news was he was expected to show up with a large coke consignment for processing , cutting and distributing ; the bad news was he would now not come near the place . |
| 21 | Sun was expected to line up alongside the rest of the takers , but did n't complete negotiations in time . |
| 22 | Even Mervyn , whose hands were flying across the keys of his accordion , was seen to gape up towards the thing dancing like a huge firefly in the dusk . |
| 23 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 24 | The body was lying face up in the rain . |
| 25 | The Act was needed to make up for the shortcomings of the Sale of Goods Act , 1979 , which applied only to the transfer of goods from a seller to a buyer and not to a situation where goods were being provided as part of a service , such as building work and car repairs , for example . |
| 26 | The German Siemens was in a stronger position in several ways ; in addition to its computer and telecommunications equipment strengths , Siemens in the late 1980S was attempting to catch up with the vertically integrated Japanese electronics companies ; it was making a major chip effort , with use by the German car industry especially in mind . |
| 27 | ‘ He said he was going to drive up to the Spaniard 's for a drink . |
| 28 | Judging by the latest letter he had received from New York , care of Isobel Dawson , it was going to go up with a bang — there had been sufficient talk of banning it to make sure that everybody bought it , without any real danger that it would be banned from the bookstores . |
| 29 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 30 | It was n't just here and now , he was part of the past and he was going to sign up for the WEA history and archaeology classes . |