Example sentences of "were [vb pp] up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They said whole fields were ripped up into the air ! |
| 2 | They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 3 | The demonstrations were broken up by the security forces and according to unsubstantiated BPP sources some 300 people were killed during the security operation . |
| 4 | The efforts of the government and the reversal of the alliance with the intellectuals failed to keep out a trickle of French newspapers : contraband books were picked up by the Inquisition all over Spain between 1790 and 1792 . |
| 5 | In the 1970s , Mr Chihana spent seven years in prison as one of thousands of prisoners of conscience who were picked up by the regime but were never charged . |
| 6 | Neither of these points were picked up in the debate . |
| 7 | We did n't find you till late , and you were curled up on the landing , outside the kitchen door . |
| 8 | Then , my eyes were lifted up to the hill which overshadows the old city . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The conventional view has been that political strife was so intense between 1689 and 1715 because party divisions cut deep into society ; all elements of the population , from the gentry , through to the merchants , professionals , artisanal and trading classes , the small farmers , right down to the " mob " , were caught up in the rage of party . |
| 11 | How many , I wonder , were caught up in the looting frenzy themselves and are now attempting to make amends ? |
| 12 | Although these families rose further than any since the sixteenth century , many of the Sussex gentry were caught up in the process of aggrandisement . |
| 13 | It was never seriously in dispute , of course , that black and white people alike were caught up in the summer disturbances of 1981 . |
| 14 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 15 | Yet they were caught up in the atmosphere and importance of the occasion . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Members of the Royal Marines orchestra , including some bandsmen who were caught up in the bombing , played during the hour-long service . |
| 18 | This is a highly dangerous area to sail in because the seas contain many monstrous creatures which were stirred up by the collapse of northern Ulthuan centuries ago — Kraken , huge shark-like megalodons , Behemoths and even the dread Black Leviathan are all commonly seen in the waters north of Ulthuan . |
| 19 | Well they were hung up on the board in O S D on Friday when I went down there |
| 20 | Her breasts were pushed up by the wall she was leaning against . |
| 21 | The classroom observations ( see 1a ) were written up in the form of case studies , to include descriptive accounts of the pupil 's microcomputer use , teachers ' class organisation and intervention occurrences . |
| 22 | Their pecuniary interests were probably greater than their antiquarian ones , and their errors were written up by the historian . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | With all the bad publicity , one might think Americans were fed up with the NEA . |
| 25 | Between the 1150s and the 1180s connections between the curia and Paris were built up as the studium , or university , began to form . |
| 26 | Our pens were collected up at the end of each session , so we never got the same pen twice , resulting in the nibs being frequently crossed . |
| 27 | Solutions of 100 mM drug in PBS/10% FCS were made up with the concentration of NaCl reduced to maintain osmolality . |
| 28 | But it is evident that the species is now a regular winter visitor on a large scale , although the data available to des Forges and Harber suggested that the winter flocks were made up of the breeding population , non-breeding birds and the young of the year , except in very cold weather ; this can not be so today , although cold weather influxes still occur . |
| 29 | Children were out playing in the schoolyards , shouting and enjoying the sunshine ; shops were closed up for the dinner hour . |
| 30 | They were cleaned up for the arrival of summer and then it was not unusual if they were repaired before the onslaught of winter . |