Example sentences of "[was/were] put up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The big second-hand machines and new boiler were stored in the vacated building and a two-storey building was put up with a canteen at the front and offices at the rear . |
| 32 | Her hair was put up with rhinestone forget-me-nots instead of diamanté ones and when her friend Mr Lewis says : ‘ might I divest you of your plastic mac ? ’ the whole process shut down for an hour or so whilst six fairly literate people racked their brains for a ‘ mac ’ substitute . |
| 33 | This was put up for vetting to a nominated superintendent whose instinctive response was to deny its submission , suggesting it ‘ looked as if it would be editorially unsuitable ’ . |
| 34 | Lincoln went into receivership and was put up for sale on 4 February , 1922 . |
| 35 | Two-thirds of AMI Healthcare was put up for auction this week after the company 's Los Angeles parent changed hands . |
| 36 | The business was put up for auction two months ago when Whitbread decided that its spirits operation , including brands such as Long John Scotch , Laphroaig malt whisky , Burrough 's mixed doubles and Beefeater gin , was too small to compete with the giants of the industry like Grand Metropolitan 's IDV , Guinness ' United Distillers and Allied-Lyons ' Hiram Walker Allied Vintners . |
| 37 | The company 's stay was fairly brief , for in 1908 operations ceased and the mill was put up for auction . |
| 38 | When Jeff Tyson was put up for the job of guitarist for Californian metal trio T-Ride the recommendation came from his ex-guitar teacher , Joe Satriani . |
| 39 | The club was put up for sale after the Kumar brothers ' business empire went into receivership last month . |
| 40 | The lease of Headington Hill Hall was put up for sale along with 32 other properties in January by receivers , Grant Thornton , and has attracted several bids . |
| 41 | Bob Hoover 's North American P-51D Old Yeller was put up for action , but with a $1 million reserve Hoover gets to fly it for another year . |
| 42 | He was put up for sale before the start of this season . |
| 43 | Painted in the Company 's all yellow colour scheme and registered as SE–BRD , the Firefly flew with the Swedish company for thirteen years until being declared redundant , whereupon the aircraft was put up for disposal along with three other Mk 1s . |
| 44 | The loss-making Observer , the world 's oldest Sunday newspaper , was put up for sale by Lonrho , its owners . |
| 45 | Fisons ' horticulture division was put up for sale in April . |
| 46 | Simpson is the second player to leave the Manor Ground since the club was put up for sale eleven weeks ago . |
| 47 | Just days after the Ardtullagh mansion was put up for sale , at least a dozen prospective buyers have given its 13 rooms the once-over . |
| 48 | It was put up for £2.20 a square foot . |
| 49 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
| 50 | And also any alterations or recommendations for the national agreement the case was put up for the delegates . |
| 51 | This was first suspected in 1878 , when a row of electric lights was put up at a hotel in New York . |
| 52 | So secure was this control , I was told , that if a monkey in a red jacket was put up as a candidate it would be elected . |
| 53 | This was put up to £50 in 1813 — peanuts to Miss Grove , a formidable spinster who had inherited £10,000 from her father when she was twelve . |
| 54 | I cos I ca n't picture another stone you know on any other roadsides and I 've been on plenty that and I travel and no and I can never know of another st stone that was put up to a tramp . |
| 55 | A sign was put up in order to remind staff whenever I was on duty . |
| 56 | I drove down the afternoon before and was put up in a small hotel near the studios . |
| 57 | When he arrived in Bristol he was put up in the old Bright 's ( temperance ) Hotel at the rear of the present Dingle 's store . |
| 58 | A Christmas tree was put up in Moscow 's Red Square for the first time , and on Christmas Eve the bells of St Basil 's Cathedral in Red Square were rung for the first time since 1917 . |
| 59 | Mr Heslop , of Stanhope Road , Darlington , said the original was put up in honour of Roland Bradford , Britain 's youngest-ever brigadier general . |
| 60 | The two tests were explained in that case by the Lord Chancellor … who commented that not the law but our mode of life has changed over the years ; that what has changed is " the degree in which certain things have seemed susceptible of being put up as mere ornaments whereas at our earlier period the mere construction rendered it impossible sometimes to sever the thing which was put up from the realty . " |