Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it wuz me lyin' there , my Ruthie 'd be ransackin' the house lookin' fer the insurance policies , t'check they wuz payed up t'date . |
| 2 | Such issues grew out of my reflections upon the images of school which were built up incident by incident , interview by interview , comment by comment . |
| 3 | The rough staves were usually imported from Scandinavia and were brought up river by barge . |
| 4 | What a sickening feast of hypocrisy we were served up courtesy of the Freddie Mercury Tribute . |
| 5 | But the skinhead 's food was wrapped up old-style . |
| 6 | Somewhere about this time the squadron we had at Bourn was shifted up north to another Group . |
| 7 | But that 's how cash was counted in those days and erm , the waybill was marked to agree with a man 's statement of what his cash added up to and then the cash next day was counted up bolt because there was Priory Heath to take care of , although that was n't a media when I first went down there , that opened later on , but there was the two got to be married together and then conveyed to the bank the next day , or , on the Monday if it was a Saturday or Sunday . |
| 8 | It is the first Scottish Office contract to have been lost by Her Majesty 's Stationery Office since it was set up north of the Border in 1906 with the primary aim of servicing the Scottish Office . |
| 9 | ‘ This meeting was set up way before you ever appeared on the scene , ’ he said harshly . |
| 10 | I was brought up Methodist myself so I know a few . |
| 11 | I can not think what came over me as I was brought up chapel like you but unfortunately my father was a miner and not a grocer . |
| 12 | Not only that , it was brought up time and again by the media and used to undermine the serious work that he was trying so hard to do . |
| 13 | So the peregrine was taken up country to a falconry and raptor breeding centre . |