Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] up [noun] " 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 | Over the last year an extra 29,000 inpatients and 8,500 day case patients were treated up 6pc on the previous year 's total of 588,000 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Although M&S may still come in second , the City believes it is set for strong future growth and the shares were marked up 6p to 355p . |
| 5 | But the shares yesterday were marked up 10p to 136p after Mr Dwyer said he was hopeful 1993 would prove to be ‘ a springboard for recovery ’ . |
| 6 | The rough staves were usually imported from Scandinavia and were brought up river by barge . |
| 7 | not very , I did n't think there was very many cars there , most of them were beat up cars were n't they ? , like mini 's and things |
| 8 | What a sickening feast of hypocrisy we were served up courtesy of the Freddie Mercury Tribute . |
| 9 | They did it in a completely slapstick farce way you know th the men who were dressed up women they balloons and had rosy red cheeks and wigs and things , it was quite different . |
| 10 | They did it in a completely slapstick farce way you know th the men who were dressed up women they balloons and had rosy red cheeks and wigs and things , it was quite different . |
| 11 | The owner was rung up minutes later by the Derbyshire police asking how many pickets he was bringing . |
| 12 | One of the crooks was picked up half-a-mile away and he led them to the tot who was sitting unhurt on a pedestrian walkway . |
| 13 | Plant and machinery : Leasing was hauled up 12% to £3bn |
| 14 | But the skinhead 's food was wrapped up old-style . |
| 15 | Somewhere about this time the squadron we had at Bourn was shifted up north to another Group . |
| 16 | After being hauled out by rescuers using a rope , he was helped up 300-ft high steps and a mile-and-a-half across moorland before changing back at his car and travelling back to Middlesbrough where the extent of his injuries were discovered . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ This meeting was set up way before you ever appeared on the scene , ’ he said harshly . |
| 20 | I was brought up Methodist myself so I know a few . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | So the peregrine was taken up country to a falconry and raptor breeding centre . |
| 25 | The Egyptian theme was taken up y the caterers — dressed in costumes designed for last sumnmer 's Earl 's Court production of ’ Aida ’ . |
| 26 | She was conducted up flights of stone stairs with wrought-iron balustrades to her huge room , whose walls were painted a bright dark blue — a colour which reminded her of a postcard of Van Gogh 's " Starry Night " , and even more of the colour behind the fleurs de lys on the banners in Olivier 's film of Henry V. Its powdery darkness amazed her : no English room was ever dark blue : maybe this was more like Reckitt 's blue ? |
| 27 | As play was held up Bucknor strolled over to the scene of the trouble and appealed for calm . |