Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] up by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many times I 'm called up by a local doctor and asked to do what is called a DV — a domiciliary visit to assess the mental state of an individual . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 4 | I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram . |
| 5 | My mother died when I was fifteen , but I was brought up by a series of incompetent governesses and I saw little of either parent . |
| 6 | From when I was a small boy I was brought up by an aunt . |
| 7 | I joined it at Sanguinaro , where I was held up by a Feldgendarm on a motorcycle . |
| 8 | I was picked up by a taxi driver once and we were going along and he said , ‘ Oh , I know that voice — oh , do n't tell me — you 're Jeremy Pascal , are n't you ? ’ |
| 9 | Anyway , then I was picked up by the bizzies for possession and it all came out then . |
| 10 | I was having a nap by the gas fire one evening when I was woken up by the doorbell . |
| 11 | 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 . |