Example sentences of "was [verb] up [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we turned the corner Mel was ambling up out of an underground car park — he 'd been parking his Rolls-Royce or something . |
| 2 | Evidence of just how viscous the lavas are , and how great the forces involved are , was provided by the great spine which was pushed up out of the vent of Mt Pelee , reaching over 300 metres in height . |
| 3 | The next morning — or soon , anyway — Spunk was beamed up on to the bridge of the low-lying spaceship by the mischievous , conical , beep-voiced aliens , who then travelled through time and beamed Spunk down again into Greenwich Village , 1980 . |
| 4 | Liam was helped up on to the driving seat by an even grumpier Den and the two women and the reins put into his hand . |
| 5 | But his luxury home , complete with a trout farm and stables , is a million miles from the council prefab he was brought up in during the '50s . |
| 6 | As we threw things in the car , thick purple cloud was boiling up out of the hidden cauldron of the Sélé glacier and over the Ailefroide Occidentale . |
| 7 | No wonder ‘ Wallaby Walker ’ was hopping up out of the dug-out onto the pitch again . |