Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [vb pp] up at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our pens were collected up at the end of each session , so we never got the same pen twice , resulting in the nibs being frequently crossed . |
| 2 | In 1988 a Franco-German research programme for the preservation of historic monuments was set up at the fifty-second summit meeting between the two countries . |
| 3 | Organization at the grassroots level was clearly the most urgent need in order to reach remote starving villages , yet in Tsaritsyn as in other gubernii no local relief committees were set up at the uezd and volost' levels until October 1921 , that is , over two months after the formation of the guberniia committee . |
| 4 | A pilot course to teach community interpreter training techniques was set up at the Polytechnic of Central London last year . |
| 5 | It did n't smash , but its beams were cast up at the ceiling , throwing a gauzy light down on the room below . |
| 6 | He looked straight at her , and she could tell from the way his lower eyelids were drawn up at the inner corners and his nostrils distended that he was trying not to cry . |
| 7 | A stack of copies was piled up at the entrance to the Arts Lab . |
| 8 | Even outside Europe , in Canada , Catholic unions were set up at the beginning of the twentieth century in order to ‘ protect ’ French-Canadian workers from the more suspect ideological influences of American ‘ international ’ ( actually bi-national ) unions which were organising there . |