Example sentences of "was [vb pp] up on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was picked up on the fourth ring by an answerphone . |
| 2 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 3 | A check-list that would make a modern bird-watcher salivate was served up on the Elizabethan menu : ‘ the-food of heroes , fit for the palates of the great ’ , as Camden describes pewits , godwits , knot , and dotterel . |
| 4 | William Hardy , a Methodist maltster , was swept up on the Greek Revival wave . |
| 5 | If Darwin showed biologically that evolution was nature 's way of natural selection and continual improvement , he was backed up on the social level by all the great social theorists who taught one version or another of perpetual progress . |