Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] up by " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I was cheered up by Barbara Amiel 's suggestion ( in the ‘ Sunday Times ’ ) that the winners should have a good gloat . |
| 3 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 4 | I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram . |
| 5 | I think it 's only due to the way I was brought up by my mum that I did n't grow up with this real block , thinking it 's great to be white . |
| 6 | I was brought up by my maternal grandmother . ’ |
| 7 | From when I was a small boy I was brought up by an aunt . |
| 8 | I was brought up by adoptive parents as an only child . |
| 9 | I was brought up by au pairs , there 's no way I 'd do that to my child . |
| 10 | My mother died when I was fifteen , but I was brought up by a series of incompetent governesses and I saw little of either parent . |
| 11 | I joined it at Sanguinaro , where I was held up by a Feldgendarm on a motorcycle . |
| 12 | I was coming across but I was held up by this lot . ’ |
| 13 | I was picked up by a taxi driver once and we were going along and he said , ‘ Oh , I know that voice — oh , do n't tell me — you 're Jeremy Pascal , are n't you ? ’ |
| 14 | Anyway , then I was picked up by the bizzies for possession and it all came out then . |
| 15 | I was having a nap by the gas fire one evening when I was woken up by the doorbell . |
| 16 | Neighbour Brian Dean , a 55-year-old chauffeur , said : ‘ I was woken up by the police cars lining up in the middle of the street . |
| 17 | A judge in New York on July 11 ruled that the US airline Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am ) was guilty of " wilful misconduct " in its security procedures for baggage on its flight PA103 in December 1988 which was blown up by a bomb over Lockerbie , Scotland , killing 270 people [ see pp. 36409-10 ] . |
| 18 | The revolutionary principle was the introduction of a piston into the cylinder , which was pushed up by steam pressure to raise one end of a rocking beam . |
| 19 | Scotland showed superior power in the scrum but could not capitalise on their possession , and Western Samoa , who scored three tries to one , produced flowing play which was backed up by a strong play in the lineouts . |
| 20 | The Christian Faith spells out in detail the kind of overall understanding of Christian theology which was opened up by the conception of the nature of religion presented in the Addresses . |
| 21 | The bond issue , which could be launched as early as the end of this year , would be the first capital raising in an east European home market by the bank , which was set up by western governments in London in 1991 to catalyse investment in the former communist countries . |
| 22 | In the same year in the UK the Review Committee on Education for Information Use , which was set up by the British Library Research and Development Department ( BLR&DD ) in 1974 , was recommending that : |
| 23 | The first meeting takes place this week and I am asked to make a presentation to the Committee which was set up by the minister of finance . ’ |
| 24 | One contender is the SQL Access Group , which was set up by database vendors to standardise on one SQL dialect . |
| 25 | Heavily involved in these negotiations were representatives of the US-based Orangutan Foundation , which has branches in Taiwan , Indonesia and the UK , and which was set up by Dr Biruté Galdikas , who has been working with orangs in Kalimantan for more than 20 years . |
| 26 | The recycling scheme is run by the non-profit making Save-a-Cup Recycling Company which was set up by a group of plastic cup manufacturers and a number of companies in the UK vending and foodservice industries just over a year ago . |
| 27 | The Working Party on Internal Migration in Britain , which was set up by the Institute of British Geographers in l988 , aims at the better understanding of the patterns , causes and implications of migration in Britain . |
| 28 | The new draft allowed permanent government officials to hold Cabinet posts concurrently ; gave the NLA , which was set up by the military , the power to nominate senators ; and gave senators , along with MPs , the right to screen candidates for the premiership , and to launch no confidence motions against the government . |
| 29 | Staffing allotment will be 654 for England , 225 for Wales , 385 for Scotland and 86 for the joint UK Nature Conservation Committee , which was set up by the Department of Environment to provide a central voice for the NCC . |
| 30 | The group , which was set up by Mr Lang , is embarrassingly split in its conclusions . |