Example sentences of "his [noun] [was/were] [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time he was nine both parents had died , and Trevor and his sister were brought up in Wisbech by their maternal grandparents . |
| 2 | Thus , after Chlodomer 's death at Vézeronce , his sons were brought up by their grandmother , Chlothild , who clearly expected them to inherit their father 's kingdom . |
| 3 | His existence was swallowed up in the gloom and horror of the entire country — he did not , in other words , lead a private life in the sense in which that was true before the war . |
| 4 | There were tears on the old man 's face and his mouth was drawn up in a silent parody of a grin . |
| 5 | We completed the film during the early summer of 1979 and in August Mountbatten was granted the quick but not peaceful death he had asked for when his boat was blown up by an IRA bomb off the west coast of Ireland . |
| 6 | His words were taken up by many who would not have dreamed of opening any of his more technical works , and he came to be in great demand as a speaker at rallies and at the numerous conferences and seminars on the death of images organized by the Universities , the Churches and the innumerable Humanist organizations which had mushroomed in the immediately preceding decades . |
| 7 | His shoulders were pushed up by his neck and his stomach caved in . |
| 8 | His demands were taken up by a group of academics and intellectuals who also accused Milosevic of seeking to provoke intercommunal strife and to destabilize the Yugoslav federation . |
| 9 | After Zarathustra 's death his religion was taken up by the old priestly class known as the Magi and eventually became the faith of the Achaemenid dynasty . |
| 10 | Grumman said he was caught because his entry was picked up by its own computers . |
| 11 | But as he was finishing his second pint , and wondering again whether to go up and see one or other of the Mrs Machins , his mind was made up for him . |
| 12 | Not him his his mind was made up on going and that was it . |
| 13 | Similarly , while he was still fit enough , Ceauşescu inflicted games of volley-ball on his colleagues : his team was made up of bodyguards and young relatives , the opponents were politburo members or deskbound apparatchiks of one sort or another . |
| 14 | The back flap of his breacan-feile was drawn up as a hood over his head against the weather . |
| 15 | And Clara , who could see no elegant way of enlarging this tantalizing scrap of information , had to make do with it — she dared not ask any further , for she knew nothing about the Labour Party , nor about the elder Ash 's political views , nor about A. J. Warbley himself , beyond the fact that his name was written up in black Gothic letters over his son 's shop door . |
| 16 | His head was jammed up against the back of the sofa , his cheek on the carpet and Doyle 's hand clamped over his mouth . |
| 17 | His feelings were summed up in his oft-quoted statement ‘ God does not play dice . ’ |
| 18 | Nevertheless , Einstein never accepted that the universe was governed by chance ; his feelings were summed up in his famous statement " God does not play dice . " |
| 19 | His mantle was taken up by Henry Cooper and later on by others . |
| 20 | Perhaps the same thing happened to him on Weathertop , where he put the Ring on as the Ringwraiths closed in , but the words used there are ‘ temptation ’ and ‘ desire ’ — ‘ his terror was swallowed up in a sudden temptation to put on the Ring . |
| 21 | His career was bound up with the ‘ colonial-interloping ’ nexus of Puritan merchants , shipowners , and masters which challenged the established trading companies before the civil war and came into prominence during it . |
| 22 | The publicity he gave to the idea in his paper was taken up by other newspapers and the example of Gloucester was followed all over the country . |
| 23 | When his father was tucked up for the night , the son would wander out into the garden and enjoy the cool air as a contrast to the fug of the sick-room . |
| 24 | In June 1928 , as Zhang retreated to his capital , Mukden , his train was blown up by members of the Guandong Army . |
| 25 | They are not perhaps the kind of remarks to be found in Christmas crackers , but they suggest that his humour was bound up with the idea of self-parody : he is mocking the pontifical manner which others associated with him . |
| 26 | When allegations that Schnur had worked for the Stasi for at least 20 years were first made on March 9 his denials were supported up by the West German government which said that he had on the contrary been passing information on political repression in East Germany to them . |
| 27 | His raincoat was turned up at the collar , but not to protect him against the rain , for he always wore it that way . |
| 28 | Throughout his career he continued with a series of busts of well-known personalities , such as W. E. Gladstone , Lord Suffield , and General William Booth [ q.v. ] of the Salvation Army , and appealing statuettes , such as ‘ Aphrodite ’ , ‘ The Dancer ’ , and ‘ St George and the Dragon ’ , but more of his time was taken up with monumental sculpture , such as the colossal bronze statue of the Duke of Connaught [ q.v. ] for Hong Kong , those of Queen Victoria for Allahabad and Colombo , Sir William Rose Mansfield , first Baron Sandhurst [ q.v. ] for Bombay , a Cameron highlander for Inverness , and Sir John A. MacDonald [ q.v. ] for the Canadian cities of Montreal , Hamilton , and Kingston . |
| 29 | The rest of his time was taken up with a slide show with commentary . |
| 30 | His van was painted up with pictures of Gene Autry and Hopalong Cassidy , and he called his firm the Boot Hill and Laredo Double Glazing Company . |