Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is believed that the great bluestones of which Stonehenge is constructed were floated up the Wiltshire Avon . |
| 2 | The last straw was located about 10 or 15ft from safety , at which handholds seemed to disappear altogether and aching feet were scrunched up the tiniest of ripples . |
| 3 | Before the New World was discovered and Australian resources were opened up the only source of opals known was situated in the Libanka and Simonka mountains north of Kosice in eastern Slovakia . |
| 4 | In the ensuing mêlée , McLaren , Reid and others of the Pistols camp were dragged up the gangplank and into the waiting police vans . |
| 5 | In the kinds of society in which most of my readers were brought up the coding of behaviour presupposes a sharp division between what goes on within the household and transactions which link the household to the rest of society . |
| 6 | Its annual fairs and three weekly markets brought sellers and purchasers from miles around and goods from overseas were brought up the river Ouse right into the heart of the city , York remained one of the leading provincial centres , despite its decline to less than 8,000 people in the 1520s after the collapse of its cloth industry and the decay of its overseas trade . |
| 7 | For almost twenty years after that various proposals were run up the flagpole , mostly to unsaluting generals . |
| 8 | There was that chap that was sacked up the country was n't he ? |
| 9 | The wounded German Officer was carried up the grassy bank and placed against a tree . |
| 10 | In a number of cases , grain was carried up the canal to the docks , was transhipped , and promptly retraced its steps along the canal to Saul Junction where it passed onto the Stroudwater Canal . |
| 11 | The noise of the car engine was carried up the the pipe and Mrs Jones was woken in the early hours of the morning . |
| 12 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 13 | The following season he made 64 not out as nightwatchman against Trinidad , was moved up the order in the second innings , and responded with 188 ; a year later , in 1943–4 , also against Trinidad , he and John Goddard put on an undefeated 502 for the fourth wicket , at the time the third highest partnership in first-class cricket . |
| 14 | A sample of 50 schools was drawn up the Statistics Division of SOED ( one in eight of all Scottish secondaries ) giving broad representation of Scottish secondaries in general , in terms of size , geographic location , denominational status and percentages of pupils entitled to free school meals . |
| 15 | However , a new 375g pack at £1.19 was introduced on February 8th and until the old stock was used up the two packs were on sale side by side . |
| 16 | They had to carry a table out with them , which was set up the required ten metres from the shed wall , and the pistols were laid out , and the targets pinned up . |
| 17 | In the Joint Committee that was set up the conflict was , in Hanrott 's words , ‘ played cool ’ , but it was conflict nevertheless . |
| 18 | There was extensive trading in coal , which was brought up the river from Yarmouth , and the rich tracts of land surrounding the town produced a considerable quantity of corn , particularly barley . |
| 19 | I was an East End boy myself ; I was brought up the hard way . |
| 20 | Renewed accusations had been made against Jones on Friday 10 March by James Brophy , the Utah vice president for research , who made allegations of piracy to Prof. John Lamb of Brigham Young University , and this was followed up the next week by Pons making general accusations against Jones to Dr Gajewski at the DOE . |
| 21 | It 's easy to say he was led up the garden path by a couple of pointed media questions , but I do n't accept that . |
| 22 | All John Smith had done was put up the white flag . |
| 23 | But to Paula 's triumphant delight the suit was snapped up the moment it went back onto its hanger — a solicitor 's wife who had stopped for a coffee had fallen in love with it , even if the skirt did have to be taken up four full inches to make it fit her less-than-willow tall frame . |