Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the communicating voice tube I was invited up to the bridge . |
| 2 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I was fed up with the European promoters who seemed obsessed by the American sprinters . |
| 5 | I was fed up with the yucky mouldy silicone round the edge and reckoned a proper job should be done on it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Actually the last time I was stood up on a platform and did this was in front of erm a S G T congress in Dieppe and I tell you I had to do it in French , and it was much more difficult so I 'm hoping this one will go smoothly , but I , what I 'd really like to do is begin with is offer you erm delegates and platform both , a very very warm welcome from the trade union movement in Portsmouth . |
| 8 | A few days ago when I was hooked up to a foetal monitor , a midwife rushed in , not to ask how I was , but to see if I knew the latest on the war . |
| 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 | In 1672 , for example , the Dutch Cromwell , de Witt , was torn limb from limb in the street by a frenzied mob , and in 1986 I was beaten up in a bar . |
| 11 | The idea was that when that was done , on a signal I was to open up with the Breda and shoot up the café . |
| 12 | ‘ I was locked up in a room with a ghost , in the dark . ’ |
| 13 | I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I was wrapped up in an officer 's uniform ; you could n't see me for fur and leather . |
| 16 | I was bellied up to the bar with the crowd of bobby-soxers and crewcuts . |
| 17 | I was directed up through the town , past some municipal gardens to a small building set back from the road . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As I was brought up on a farm I 'm used to working with my hands and in all weathers . |
| 20 | Well I was brought up on the story . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I was brought up as an extreme Conservative with strong Imperialistic ideas , ’ he told his interrogators in 1945 . |
| 23 | My mother died when I was fifteen , but I was brought up by a series of incompetent governesses and I saw little of either parent . |
| 24 | From when I was a small boy I was brought up by an aunt . |
| 25 | I was brought up in a generation where there were only two kinds of girls — girls who did and girls who did n't . |
| 26 | I was brought up in a hard school , Mrs Willow , and I do n't forget it . |
| 27 | I think with erm , I I was brought up in a household where it was com , completely legitimate to admit to being depressed and that you would just have to cope , I think cope perhaps my most |
| 28 | I was brought up in a pit village near Bishop Auckland and I never knew my father . |
| 29 | But I was brought up in a Catholic Home you see . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I was brought up in a vicarage myself and know how things are or can be , ’ he said confusedly . |