Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 2 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 3 | What , and I were brought up in church ? |
| 4 | Through the communicating voice tube I was invited up to the bridge . |
| 5 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
| 6 | As it happened my ‘ tablees ’ were fine and fun-filled and the only remaining knee jerk came after the Duchess had made an excellent speech and I was called up before 150 people for the photo call , which turned out to be a speech . |
| 7 | One morning I was called up in front of the 2ème Bureau and walked into an office to be interviewed by three Sergeants who spoke perfect English . |
| 8 | The fact was that all sorts of strange gear-shifts were taking place within my psyche , and I was eaten up by the morbid drama of Frankenstein . |
| 9 | I was padded up with me mate and she says I just went weird . |
| 10 | ‘ I was dragged up down Monkey Park , went to school wi' me arse hanging out ; I 've worked for everything I 've got . ’ |
| 11 | I was cheered up by Barbara Amiel 's suggestion ( in the ‘ Sunday Times ’ ) that the winners should have a good gloat . |
| 12 | It was eighty six when I was sent up to with it . |
| 13 | At the Friarage the doctor came at 5am to install a temporary pacemaker and I was sent up to Newcastle by ambulance with a doctor , a nurse and a paramedic . |
| 14 | ‘ I was fed up with English filmmakers who seemed to think that they were automatically entitled to have a film industry ’ Michael Powell has remarked of the situation in the late 1930s . |
| 15 | I was fed up with the European promoters who seemed obsessed by the American sprinters . |
| 16 | ‘ I decided I was fed up with having to go out on the road all the time in order to pay a mortgage on a house I never spent any time in ! ’ he told me . |
| 17 | ‘ I was fed up with Durham 's sponsors signing has-beens , just for their names , ’ said Raine . |
| 18 | I was fed up with the yucky mouldy silicone round the edge and reckoned a proper job should be done on it . |
| 19 | I was fed up with her misery and her disapproval . |
| 20 | I was fed up with talk of ‘ Architraves ’ and ‘ transoms : ’ The Secretary of the Antiquarian Society fancied himself as an architectural expert and loved the sound of his own voice . |
| 21 | You said er , I told , I told him I was fed up with the General Secretary of this union that had n't given us any backing and you said sorry Phil , but I 'm not the General Secretary . |
| 22 | I was fed up of being in the house , anyway … . |
| 23 | Eddie Gilfoyle replied : ‘ I was fed up in work . ’ |
| 24 | Eddie Gilfoyle replied : ‘ I was fed up in work . ’ |
| 25 | I was fed up after weeks of playing deck quoits and shuffleboard , and the Mantela appeared to be the perfect introduction to the South Seas for , instead of going straight to Sanderstown , she would call at Rarotonga , and spend a day or two there , so I would be able to fit in a visit to another island and see something of it at a leisurely pace . |
| 26 | Actually the last time I was stood up on a platform and did this was in front of erm a S G T congress in Dieppe and I tell you I had to do it in French , and it was much more difficult so I 'm hoping this one will go smoothly , but I , what I 'd really like to do is begin with is offer you erm delegates and platform both , a very very warm welcome from the trade union movement in Portsmouth . |
| 27 | A few days ago when I was hooked up to a foetal monitor , a midwife rushed in , not to ask how I was , but to see if I knew the latest on the war . |
| 28 | I was screwed up over everything , really , I 'd had enough and I just needed to escape . |
| 29 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 30 | ‘ When we were first married , I knew you would have to spend quite a lot of time on your own , when I was tied up with business affairs . |