Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the New World was discovered and Australian resources were opened up the only source of opals known was situated in the Libanka and Simonka mountains north of Kosice in eastern Slovakia . |
| 2 | The wounded German Officer was carried up the grassy bank and placed against a tree . |
| 3 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 4 | I was an East End boy myself ; I was brought up the hard way . |
| 5 | All John Smith had done was put up the white flag . |