Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 2 | They said whole fields were ripped up into the air ! |
| 3 | ‘ The anti-aircraft rockets I fired were propelled up to a height of 1,000 yards . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Government-approved ‘ mousetrap ’ had for so long banished regional English cheeses , for instance , that they were given up for dead . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At about midnight when all the children were tucked up in bed we visited the Grotto . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A number of London United cars were broken up including at least one still in blue livery . |
| 11 | In fact , these Croydon cars were broken up at Brixton Hill , standing on Erith trucks . |
| 12 | These were broken up into 10,000 farms of not less than 2 hectares ( 5 acres ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Often these were the starting points of big demonstrations which were broken up by the police . |
| 19 | Sometimes traditional economies were broken up by European competition : the cultivation of indigo , for example , collapsed with the discovery of synthetic dyestuffs . |
| 20 | Further demonstrations in the capital on March 28 , calling for the President 's resignation , were broken up by police using tear gas and stun grenades . |
| 21 | During 1989 demonstrations organized by the opposition group Democratic Union ( DU ) were broken up by police and arrests were made ; several DU members were imprisoned ( including Sergei Kuznetsov , a Sverdlovsk editor ) . |
| 22 | Several demonstrations across the country were broken up by police using tear gas during August . |
| 23 | The demonstrations were broken up by the security forces and according to unsubstantiated BPP sources some 300 people were killed during the security operation . |
| 24 | ‘ After a while we turned into a field , thick with mud , and were marched up to some firm-buildings . |
| 25 | Grand prix motor cars were painted up like buses to advertise cigarettes and even contraceptives . |
| 26 | Turkish helicopters and fighter planes were flown up to 5 km inside Iraq , and at least 24 alleged PKK bases were destroyed ; the government claimed on Aug. 16 that large quantities of arms , ammunition and documents had been seized during attacks at Kharkuk , in the Durji valley . |
| 27 | SIX OF the long-term political prisoners whose release the government announced this week , including Walter Sisulu , the former ANC secretary , were flown up from Cape Town to Johannesburg under guard yesterday morning and transferred to Diepkloof prison in Soweto , according to the South African Press Association . |
| 28 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 29 | The sleeves of his pale blue shirt were rolled up over his muscly forearms . |
| 30 | Dairyman Crick 's sleeves were rolled up from Monday to Saturday , and the milkers milked in the fields for coolness . |