Example sentences of "i [was/were] [vb pp] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happened my ‘ tablees ’ were fine and fun-filled and the only remaining knee jerk came after the Duchess had made an excellent speech and I was called up before 150 people for the photo call , which turned out to be a speech . |
| 2 | ‘ I was fed up with English filmmakers who seemed to think that they were automatically entitled to have a film industry ’ Michael Powell has remarked of the situation in the late 1930s . |
| 3 | And I would have said , Ray , please I was brought up with this , and it 's vulgar to discuss money over the telephone , erm , you know do n't dream of paying me anything , I 'm just ever so grateful for the opportunity . |
| 4 | I was brought up by adoptive parents as an only child . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I was brought up in that orphanage in Dalston , and that 's what they called me there . |
| 6 | I was brought up in liberal Anglicanism and lapsed into unbelief and active opposition before being converted in an evangelical Anglican church at the age of twenty-four . |
| 7 | I was brought up in oblivious paganism , but school introduced two services a day , Scripture several times a week and Bible class with theological criticism and the occasional lecture on Pilgrims Progress as a special treat . |
| 8 | On another occasion when I was holed up for two days in a tiny cottage in Snowdonia while it poured with rain , an ordnance survey map , my first hand knowledge of the area and an illustrated catalogue of Turner 's work allowed me to prepare for locating the sites where he worked . |
| 9 | I thought wryly of the days , not many years before , when I was holed up in one dark room on the wrong side of town . |
| 10 | I was coming across but I was held up by this lot . ’ |
| 11 | I was laid up for five weeks , could n't do any work whatsoever and just sleep , cuss the family , be generally grumpy , tired and achy . |
| 12 | I knew right then you were the one that I was caught up in physical objection but to my satisfaction baby you were more than just a phase . |