Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this occasion , Plage was set up over a water-hole in a clearing in the jungle , hoping that a leopard would show up to hunt or drink . |
| 2 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 3 | Mo was curled up in a bundle under the eiderdown . |
| 4 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 5 | United were wobbling ; Hoddle was winding up for a big finish . |
| 6 | The lights went down further , and I guessed Kruger was working up to the big climax , whatever that was . |
| 7 | Florida was opened up as a winter resort in the 1890s by Henrys Flagler and Plant , both millionaires and railroad company owners . |
| 8 | Nicholson was caught up in the aftermath and became Hollywood 's hottest property to emerge for two decades . |
| 9 | And so it was that Luch was taken up to the castle for the second time . |
| 10 | Some of those taking ; part were already in costume : Jilly Fox was wearing what looked like an Iranian chadour , contrived from a sheet , Karen Gray was dressed up as a nurse , and Bob Saxby who taught pottery was encased in a Michelin-man spacesuit which he claimed was an Arctic explorer 's sleeping bag . |
| 11 | At the Raja 's insistence Tara was chained up to a 500 year old tree . |
| 12 | Moses was brought up in a high-ranking Egyptian family and then , later in life , led a lowly people , the Jews . |
| 13 | Henry Lees deserted his family and Florence was brought up by a half-brother , an Oxford don , who sent her to school in London . |
| 14 | From the very first moment of her return to the vicarage Ruth was caught up in a whirlwind of work . |
| 15 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 16 | Frank was brought up in the Hollywood studio tradition and expected producers to exert a large amount of control , but Lester 's lack of freedom did not stop him changing parts of the script — including all of Gawford 's scenes — and reducing the number of songs . |
| 17 | Henry Hughton was snapped up on a free-transfer for Palace from Orient and was arguably one of Manager Alan Mullery 's best signing for the club , because Henry 's amazing versatility became extremely useful in several difficult seasons at Selhurst Park . |
| 18 | Hasan was sitting up at the table , eating a large slice of toast . |
| 19 | But Donald was doubled up on the sofa . |
| 20 | The BMW was held up by the set of traffic lights just before Brewer Street . |
| 21 | Late in the night , towards moonset , Hazel was looking up from a cut where they were crouching to a little bank above . |
| 22 | Described as ‘ kind-hearted , yet … a lively and obstinate boy , , Tom was brought up in a prosperous house ( his father was a manager of a textile firm ) and was used to a well-stocked meal table . |
| 23 | And very soon after that , Matilda was moved up into the top form where Miss Plimsoll quickly discovered that this amazing child was every bit as bright as Miss Honey had said . |
| 24 | In the West Indies the original unity laid down in the Carlisle grant disintegrated as the Leeward Islands broke away from Barbados and Jamaica was set up with an entirely separate governorship . |
| 25 | The Inter-governmental Bureau of Informatics was set up by the United Nations . |
| 26 | Such attitudes were reinforced by the increased contact with more remote societies as tropical Africa was opened up during the later decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | Lawrence had been drafted into the lineup following a finger injury suffered by Chris Lewis , while Botham was called up at the 11th hour to win his 100th cap when Derek Pringle 's sore back failed to respond to treatment . |
| 28 | The PSP reconsidered their policy of total opposition to the guerrilla strategy late in July 1958 , when Carlos Rafael Rodriguez was sent up into the Sierra , where he encountered ‘ understanding ’ in Rául 's encampment and ’ suspicion' in Fidel 's ( Thomas : 1977 , pp. 220–1 ) . |
| 29 | Last year , the initiative for an open day for justice in the Cour d'Appel in Paris was taken up with the Lord Chancellor 's Department . |
| 30 | It was in Nazareth that Jesus was brought up as a carpenter 's son . |