Example sentences of "it [was/were] [vb pp] up [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those which went to Moscow from the west were fed by the Russian government ; and the ceremonial presentation each day of food to the foreigners was considered of such symbolic importance that it was kept up even during the terrible famine of 1601 – 03 , the worst in all Russian history . |
| 2 | Where the printed story came from I do n't know , but basically it was made up somewhere along the line ; a fairy story . |
| 3 | Ambivalence was a , a term coined in about nineteen O five , by the Swiss psychiatrist , , and it was taken up particularly by psychoanalysis , and as a psychoanalytic term , it means the co-existence of contradictory thoughts , feelings or emotions about the same thing . |
| 4 | The arrangement of the Local Management of Schools is one of the best initiatives of the Conservative Government and it has freed schools from the heavy-handed control of Local Government , and in particular that of Labour controlled Authorities because it 's a step into the unknown for some , with obviously some doubt at first , and many Labour Groups fed on those doubts with lies and threats but nevertheless it was taken up wholeheartedly by many schools . |
| 5 | Virginia pushed agitated hands through her hair , forgetting it was caught up neatly in a high top-knot . |
| 6 | Kastri on Kythera seems to have been one of the earliest , if not the first , Minoan colony , and it was set up well before 2000 BC . |
| 7 | That was where the draymen rolled great steel barrels , and it was held up only by bolts . |
| 8 | Most years it was washed up again on the next or a later tide , but this was of no consequence so long as the Scapegoat had gone . |