Example sentences of "was [verb] up [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he passed again on the other side of the road on his way back forty minutes later he was caught up in the very worst time of day for traffic . |
| 2 | The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic . |
| 3 | War began with an unsuccessful attempt to return to the city-plundering strategy of the previous century , went on with a great commerce-raiding voyage round the world by Anson , and ( not before it had at last ended the trading career of the South Sea Company ) was swallowed up by the more far-flung clash of British and French . |
| 4 | In the West Indies the original unity laid down in the Carlisle grant disintegrated as the Leeward Islands broke away from Barbados and Jamaica was set up with an entirely separate governorship . |
| 5 | But the whole study was set up within a much more general theoretical orientation : the theory of linguistic change ; it was not merely an attempt to demonstrate age , class and style differences , as Smith implies . |
| 6 | The battle for territory was hotting up before the today 's London peace conference under the chairmanship of Prime Minister John Major . |
| 7 | The food was served up by the equally cheerful owner , a middle-aged lady who did not believe in overcharging her customers . |
| 8 | When Vigier de la Rousselle dared to advocate the continuation of appeals to Paris in 1312 , the whole matter was taken up in a very ‘ political ’ way by the authorities in Bordeaux , who accused Vigier of contempt of ducal authority and had him executed on a charge which was , in effect , that of treason . |
| 9 | The challenge was taken up by no less than 23 teams during the AKA Convention that year at Columbus , Ohio , all of them fulfilling the specification of being colourful , distinctive and exciting . |
| 10 | This power , however , was to be used according to the rules of the American Constitution , not as a means to a dictatorship like that which Hitler was setting up at the very same time in Germany . |