Example sentences of "was [verb] up [prep] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My work-rate was speeded up by the further drops of rain that fell on me . |
| 2 | The television-viewing public was made up of the older stay-at-homes , not the swinging exotics whose exploits filled the front pages of the newspapers . |
| 3 | Such attitudes were reinforced by the increased contact with more remote societies as tropical Africa was opened up during the later decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | By such a mechanism , in which family ties played an important part , a relatively rapid ascent was opened up for the younger sons of the prosperous Catalan farmers who must leave the farm to the chosen heir ( the hereu ) ; within a generation a man could make a modest fortune , exposed to the risk of loss as well as the hope of gain . |
| 5 | In 1982 a further project entitled ‘ Study and information skills in schools ’ , was set up at the NFER to extend the above work , with the following aims : |
| 6 | After a year or so the rope was taken up from the lower floors and wound on to a cleat on the top storey . |
| 7 | This proposal was worked up within the broader terms of the long-promised priority care package . |