Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] up by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact was that all sorts of strange gear-shifts were taking place within my psyche , and I was eaten up by the morbid drama of Frankenstein . |
| 2 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 3 | Anyway , then I was picked up by the bizzies for possession and it all came out then . |
| 4 | I was having a nap by the gas fire one evening when I was woken up by the doorbell . |
| 5 | Neighbour Brian Dean , a 55-year-old chauffeur , said : ‘ I was woken up by the police cars lining up in the middle of the street . |