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 | Renewed accusations had been made against Jones on Friday 10 March by James Brophy , the Utah vice president for research , who made allegations of piracy to Prof. John Lamb of Brigham Young University , and this was followed up the next week by Pons making general accusations against Jones to Dr Gajewski at the DOE . |
| 6 | All John Smith had done was put up the white flag . |