Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reason bein' , we did a complete sweep of the whole area outside the perimeter of the grounds , jes ' in case our man wuz lyin' up in the vicinity . |
| 2 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 3 | They said whole fields were ripped up into the air ! |
| 4 | ‘ The anti-aircraft rockets I fired were propelled up to a height of 1,000 yards . |
| 5 | If we understand the cold war as imaginary war , a situation in which the Fordist variant of capitalism needed the stalinist variant of socialism , in which the two systems were propped up by a never-ending pretend confrontation , then the collapse of communism was bound to lead to a dramatic reaction in the West . |
| 6 | Already , statistics were catching up on them . |
| 7 | We told him that you had been out all night and that you were catching up on some sleep . |
| 8 | The year 1973 came close to repeating the triumphs of 1972 but , as usual in FI , other cars were catching up with the Lotus , though not in qualifying , for 1973 was the year in which Ronnie Peterson notched an astonishing nine pole positions and a place on the front row in twelve of the season 's fifteen races , as against one and five for Emerson , Peterson finishing a mere three points behind Fittipaldi . |
| 9 | They were catching up with an interrupted past , not forestalling a proletarian future . |
| 10 | The strains of the last fortnight were catching up with him , and he looked every one of his sixty-four years . |
| 11 | In its critique of the project , known as Nina , the Science Policy Research Unit ( SPRU ) of the University of Sussex , says : I Only six papers a year were produced from research using the machine , whereas similar devices abroad were producing up to twice as many |
| 12 | Government-approved ‘ mousetrap ’ had for so long banished regional English cheeses , for instance , that they were given up for dead . |
| 13 | On 26 December , 114 Lower Church Street and adjoining properties which had been leased to W. A. Reeves , the furnisher , since the offices were given up by the South Metropolitan Company , were sold to him . |
| 14 | They were building up to a strong finish with ‘ The Skater 's Waltz ’ and Noreen knew her number would go up next . |
| 15 | Long before the century closed , pressures were building up for constitutional change and for more profound changes in the social and economic system itself . |
| 16 | Tears were building up behind her eyes , threatening to disgrace her by spilling down her cheeks . |
| 17 | At about midnight when all the children were tucked up in bed we visited the Grotto . |
| 18 | ‘ And it was only when we were tucked up in her freezing room in Charlotte Street that I got this strange feeling and I said , ‘ But you 're not Janet , are you ? ’ |
| 19 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
| 20 | Others were queueing up for cracks at goal as well , notably Jon Newsome on at least two occasions , as well as Speed and Bats . |
| 21 | Blackburn , loads of Iti clubs were queueing up for him . |
| 22 | Lucien hurried to the wardrobe where several garments were hanging up for his use . |
| 23 | A number of London United cars were broken up including at least one still in blue livery . |
| 24 | In fact , these Croydon cars were broken up at Brixton Hill , standing on Erith trucks . |
| 25 | These were broken up into 10,000 farms of not less than 2 hectares ( 5 acres ) . |
| 26 | Whereas water and electricity were broken up into different private companies between which there might be a degree of competition , British Telecom ( BT ) and British Gas were essentially privatized intact . |
| 27 | They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 28 | However their numbers have been halved over the years , as depot space has contracted : four were broken up in 1963 and the remainder numbered 600–607 . |
| 29 | By this time , fuel and crew costs had made them uneconomic , and despite rumours that they were to be transferred to Bispham , they were broken up in Marton Depot by 1963 , all except one car . |
| 30 | The three cars on the Crystal Palace route were sold to Cohen 's at Thornton Heath depôt on 12 October 1935 and were to be broken up at Hampstead depôt , but they had to be held back until Crystal Palace route closed belatedly on 8 February 1936 , when presumably they were broken up in Penge depôt with the South Metropolitan cars . |