Example sentences of "[was/were] up in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant that she was in the clinic , she 'd had the scan , she was ovulating , her feet were up in stirrups — they needed my sample there and then . ’ |
| 2 | Suddenly her senses were up in flames . |
| 3 | ‘ I believe the Breadalbane men were up in arms against their commanders down at Glasgow a few years back . |
| 4 | PUNTERS at Huntingdon yesterday were up in arms after Bully Boy , the outsider of three , stormed home by a distance in the Long Sutton Handicap Chase . |
| 5 | Many , it is true , shouted enthusiastically that we were right and to be congratulated , but many others were up in arms at our intrepid temerity . |
| 6 | But they were up in arms on Saturday as Liverpool crashed to Wimbledon . |
| 7 | When he said much the same thing at the end of the Council , Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and the right-wing were up in arms at this ‘ humanism ’ . |
| 8 | A long-time vegetarian , lang did a televised announcement on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals , and cattle country was up in arms . |
| 9 | THE organisation representing rank and file members of the Republic 's army was up in arms today over a new security vetting procedure . |
| 10 | No none of you do now but when he first suggested it everyone was up in arms and he poor old soul I remembered he said , I 've had enough change I I believe in this I I 've I 've tried I 'm too old now and out he walked . |
| 11 | She was up in arms , riled by his easy assurance , his certainty that he could manipulate her like some puppet . |
| 12 | For , while her pride was up in arms that plainly Ven would have preferred to take someone else out to dinner — had that ‘ someone else ’ been free — what was really getting to Fabia was nothing but common-or-garden , out-and-out jealousy . |