Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 2 | I knew right then you were the one that I was caught up in physical objection but to my satisfaction baby you were more than just a phase . |
| 3 | ‘ My father and Edwin Garland were very close friends , so much so that I was brought up to regard Beryl and Francis as cousins . ’ |
| 4 | The next generation which is taking over the reins of industry is a generation who were not brought up in the same milieu that I was brought up in . |
| 5 | It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation . |
| 6 | Well in in th the year that I was brought up in there was a a much more er er traditional fee structure which simply was n't negotiated in the same way as it is today . |
| 7 | She gave every indication that she was fed up to the teeth . |
| 8 | But yesterday , possums , Dame Edna Everage revealed that she was fed up with rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , I am , ’ replied Anabelle , wishing that she was curled up in her nest fast asleep . |
| 10 | Government-approved ‘ mousetrap ’ had for so long banished regional English cheeses , for instance , that they were given up for dead . |
| 11 | Earlier studies of comets jets , focused on the short-period comet Swift-Tuttle , showed that they were made up of dust particles of about one micrometer in diameter . |
| 12 | It is generally thought that they were a new people only in name , and that they were made up of tribes such as the Amsivarii , Chattuarii and Chatti , who are mentioned in earlier sources , but rarely , if at all , in later ones . |
| 13 | Computer expert , Andrew Eccleston , explains that they were fed up with old-fashioned forecasting methods , so came up with something new . |
| 14 | This had a knock-on effect on capital resources , in the sense that they were taken up with developing general hospital services in the towns away from London . |
| 15 | The two countries , he said , had never been at war , although he acknowledged North Korea 's right to seek property damages linked to Japan 's colonial rule , provided that they were backed up by " objective evidence " . |
| 16 | I simply heard from numerous of my friends that they were rung up by quite junior Whips who stressed that Alec was standing , having decided to renounce his peerage . |
| 17 | And the fact that it was divvied up in the pubs I |
| 18 | One theory held that he was fed up with being called ‘ Manstead ’ and wanted to confuse people into using his first name instead . |
| 19 | Jefferson resigned from Downton International shortly afterwards , and put it about that he was fed up with working with such a large company . |
| 20 | The chances are almost two-to-one that he was brought up in a fatherless household . |
| 21 | South West appointed the finance director only to have him vetoed by the Government on the grounds that he was caught up in a Department of Trade and Industry investigation . |
| 22 | The fact that Lewis did is not a sign that he was illogical , merely that he was caught up in a spiritual drama which involved more than ‘ paper logic ’ . |
| 23 | When the keeper came up to check on the Spectacled Bears , she could n't understand that Omero and Minky were trying to tell her that Sam was ill , she just saw that he was curled up in a ball and would n't move . |
| 24 | When he turned , he saw that he was backed up to a young man with crinkly hair and a baggy silk suit , sleeves turned back to mid-forearm . |