Example sentences of "[was/were] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There were only three of us at first , and we were up the field all day , every day . |
| 2 | But London experiences the " provinces " as if they were up the Amazon , up a mysterious not to say treacherous jungle path . |
| 3 | I knew something was up the minute Tod started selling all the furniture . |
| 4 | Such as that I was trying to use the priesthood as an escape from my personal frustration , that I was dramatizing my own situation , that I was proud and vain , that my idea of Catholicism was up the creek . |
| 5 | The next minute I was up the tree with him . |
| 6 | The toilet was up the hall , with a broken window through which the wind whipped directly up your arse . |
| 7 | Sitting there , above him , watching him slowly keel over and close his eyes , Marie was remembering something else : ‘ Our Mam said Simon 's Dad was up the factory on Friday , did n't she ? |
| 8 | They were a group of twelve , mainly Icelandic , but with two Norwegians and a Canadian , and now joined by an English cyclist who pretended , when convenient , to be Welsh , The intended route was up the south-west side of the Öræfajökull , the glacier being climbed during the night , although in June the sun only barely dips below the northern horizon at midnight . |