Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets .
2 My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith .
3 Through the communicating voice tube I was invited up to the bridge .
4 At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there .
5 The fact was that all sorts of strange gear-shifts were taking place within my psyche , and I was eaten up by the morbid drama of Frankenstein .
6 I was fed up with the European promoters who seemed obsessed by the American sprinters .
7 I was fed up with the yucky mouldy silicone round the edge and reckoned a proper job should be done on it .
8 You said er , I told , I told him I was fed up with the General Secretary of this union that had n't given us any backing and you said sorry Phil , but I 'm not the General Secretary .
9 It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’
10 I was wrapped up to the eyes when I went u down to put my walking boots on as well because they 're comfortable and there were people going going round in their shellsuits and you know I must be feeling the cold more now .
11 I was bellied up to the bar with the crowd of bobby-soxers and crewcuts .
12 I was directed up through the town , past some municipal gardens to a small building set back from the road .
13 Stewart , who managed England 's Test side for six years and steered them to successive World Cup finals , said : ‘ When I was brought up during the war , serving Queen and country meant a lot to my generation .
14 Well I was brought up on the story .
15 In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child .
16 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 .
17 I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English .
18 As a male Caucasian with a father who had died of a coronary thrombosis at the age of 59 , I was brought up in the smoky atmosphere of a northern industrial town .
19 Like most people , I was brought up in the belief that a nightmare was something bad that happened while you were asleep .
20 And it it was , I mean I was brought up in the country and it , I found it really shocking that people had to live like that , you know .
21 I was brought up in the country , on a farm you know , so I 'll try and sort of make you know equal amount of flowers in each , and then er it can be halved .
22 I was brought up in the countryside .
23 I was brought up in the cloister , and have Latin and French as well as English and Welsh . ’
24 I was brought up in the days of the old Police Acts .
25 I was brought up before the era of sex education and I managed to get by .
26 ‘ We 're going to take a few more , ’ and I was ushered up onto the big machine .
27 And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years .
28 I was caught up in the Truby King Mothercraft doctrine of 1935 …
29 I got out of Bullwood Hall on a Tuesday and I was picked up on the Thursday , two days later , for robbery .
30 Anyway , then I was picked up by the bizzies for possession and it all came out then .
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