Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 2 | This may seem idiotic to you , if you were brought up in the " filling-station " tradition . |
| 3 | We did n't find you till late , and you were curled up on the landing , outside the kitchen door . |
| 4 | We complained to Malcolm , told him we were fed up with the mice and we did n't have enough money to eat properly . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After a slower than expected march we were gearing up on the famous Green Ledge in bright sunshine — the Ennerdale mountains stretching away like the bony spine of a slumbering dragon . |
| 7 | I think that year we were making up for the limitations of the one before . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We were centred up on the gap in the reef : this must be it ! |
| 10 | Just as we were coming up to the laundry , Kaptan broke free of the Corporal and ran down the side of the building . |
| 11 | Of course , that sort of thing has a really limited audience and , because we were living in Hawaii , there was nobody there to watch us anyway , so we were coming up with the most insane stuff we could do , basically just to please ourselves ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ We were woken up by the sound of breaking glass . |
| 14 | Well they were hung up on the board in O S D on Friday when I went down there |
| 15 | They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 16 | RUGBY Union rookies Tony Underwood and Martin Hynes received a boost to their England hopes yesterday when they were called up for the today 's game against Leicester . |
| 17 | Last night I opened my eyes when it was dark and feeling a sudden want of air opened the window when to my astonishment I was in time to see Oreste carried past in the arms of an angel and I wept and called out to him but there was no reply and soon they were gone up to the heavens and lost sight of . |
| 18 | When they were riding up in the lift , Damian said , ‘ I think we should go over the minutes together . ’ |
| 19 | There was a great crowd , singing , shouting , all very good-humoured — not , I think , because they were taking the situation lightly but because they were buoyed up by the feeling that here was something quite above ordinary political argument , a clearly defined moral issue on which people could stand up and be counted . |
| 20 | At the back of the house was a lock-up gaol and if any one caused any trouble they were locked up for the night , then transported the next morning by the local ‘ taxi ’ , which was a horse and cart , to the police station at Brough to be tried . |
| 21 | Though the ice-box would continue to work at sea , run off the battery , the microwave could only be used while they were hooked up to the shore power supply . |
| 22 | When they were walking up through the Grove on her birthday . |
| 23 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 24 | That may be why chatlines , costing up to 48p a minute , have been popular with young people since they were set up in the late Eighties dangerously popular , in some cases . |
| 25 | He said he had met Mounsey in prison and believed they were set up by the same gang of traffickers in Bangkok . |
| 26 | and then you go I 'm gon na get that one at the top and they were running up to the top picked it and they , and ran down again |
| 27 | When Mackay launched his cavalry at the attackers ' flank to try to restore the situation , they were caught up in the rout of the demoralised infantry , now stampeding from the field , while the victorious Highlanders pressed on unchecked until distracted from killing by the chance of plunder as they reached Mackay 's baggage train . |
| 28 | Many of the leading scholars amongst the South Slavs during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were widely travelled and had studied in France , Germany , Austria and Italy , where they were caught up in the intellectual ferment which was abroad at that time . |
| 29 | Yet they were caught up in the atmosphere and importance of the occasion . |
| 30 | It may be that they were climbing up into the older parts of the mine above the Grand Level to ascertain whether all the worthwhile ore had been taken out . |