Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was having a nap by the gas fire one evening when I was woken up by the doorbell . |
| 32 | Neighbour Brian Dean , a 55-year-old chauffeur , said : ‘ I was woken up by the police cars lining up in the middle of the street . |
| 33 | I was woken up in the night sometimes , the spare bed in my room being made up for someone they 'd met down the Club , the other lodger 's room already occupied . |
| 34 | This may seem idiotic to you , if you were brought up in the " filling-station " tradition . |
| 35 | We did n't find you till late , and you were curled up on the landing , outside the kitchen door . |
| 36 | They sang something noble and uplifting about Spiderglass and the atmosphere of pride swelled Jezrael 's emotions until she was swallowed up by the crowd 's euphoria . |
| 37 | She was propped up on the sofa near her open window which commanded an excellent view of the whole of Canons ' Court . |
| 38 | While the investigation was being carried out she was pushed up on the X-ray table with sufficient force to rip the intravenous infusion from an already bruised and swollen arm . |
| 39 | She gave every indication that she was fed up to the teeth . |
| 40 | She was fed up with the factory-style working conditions involved in producing a day-in-day-out series . |
| 41 | She was fed up with the carry-on . " |
| 42 | A BUS manager who was forced to give up a rural route said yesterday she was fed up with the whole business . |
| 43 | After she was beaten up by the other pupils , Calvin said , ‘ The trouble with than one , though , is she 's ugly . |
| 44 | She was most welcoming and wanted their children to have their friends in , she was a neighbourly woman , but if those children were still what she called ‘ hanging around ’ by the time dinner was ready and she was held up in the business of getting the evening meal dealt with , it put her out . |
| 45 | She was picked up outside the gates of Askham Grange open prison near York by her son and daughter . |
| 46 | She was picked up in the centre of town in broad daylight . |
| 47 | In 1979 as a hospital worker , she was caught up in the Winter of Discontent . |
| 48 | She was caught up in the drama of a big story . |
| 49 | Now there is a whole ocean between John and me , Ianthe thought , but soon she was caught up in the bustle of landing . |
| 50 | The next day she was signed up to the top model agency Storm — and the day after that she started her modelling career . |
| 51 | Schoolgirl Camilla Rigg , for instance , was up from Cambridge on a shopping trip to London when she was signed up on the spot . |
| 52 | As she was drugged up to the eyeballs on arrival , she had n't yet gone into shock but they were expecting it and , if she survived , then miracles could be performed . |
| 53 | She was trussed up inside the van , rolled under the seat that ran along one side and covered with old newspapers , unconscious but not dead . |
| 54 | She was brought up in the colonial culture of India and married to a senior military figure . |
| 55 | We complained to Malcolm , told him we were fed up with the mice and we did n't have enough money to eat properly . |
| 56 | We were fed up with the sexism in self-organized disability movements and even more fed up with the ableism of the women 's movement . |
| 57 | The address was , and I think still is , Kensington Court Garage , because the stables had been converted to the needs of the automobile age ; and we were perched up in the gallery . |
| 58 | We were centred up on the gap in the reef : this must be it ! |
| 59 | Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that . |
| 60 | He said : ‘ We were woken up by the sound of breaking glass . |