Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] up to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | They were working up to the crucial ( as it was then ) question of how and why she had come to identify the first body as Uncle Mossycop 's . |
| 5 | They were brought up to the drawbridge-end . |
| 6 | And then er a and then after they had been in hay ricks for a long time they were brought up to the farm and built into a bigger stack , a bigger thing . |
| 7 | And then he went on and he landed up in Seattle the time they were going up to the Klondike Gold Rush . |
| 8 | They were going up to the we call it . |