Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the communicating voice tube I was invited up to the bridge . |
| 2 | It was eighty six when I was sent up to with it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I was wrapped up to the eyes when I went u down to put my walking boots on as well because they 're comfortable and there were people going going round in their shellsuits and you know I must be feeling the cold more now . |
| 7 | I was bellied up to the bar with the crowd of bobby-soxers and crewcuts . |
| 8 | Leucanthemella serotina is what I was brought up to call Chrysanthemum ulginosum , the so-called moon daisy of Hungary , where it is often found growing in damp places . |
| 9 | I was brought up to be a butcher , ’ the man replied , looking me cordially in the eye . |
| 10 | I was brought up to work hard for my country . |
| 11 | I was brought up to be useful to a man . |
| 12 | I was brought up to work in the garden with my father ; we had to grow vegetables ourselves because money was tight . |
| 13 | ‘ My father and Edwin Garland were very close friends , so much so that I was brought up to regard Beryl and Francis as cousins . ’ |
| 14 | I was brought up to be mechanical , to make and repair things . |
| 15 | Is that right that you were a security guard before you were made up to reception manager . |
| 16 | You were allowed up to three visitors at a time and had to sit opposite them at individual tables . |
| 17 | You was n't allowed to smoke — that was one privilege they did normally let you have : if you were over fourteen you were allowed up to four cigarettes a day . |
| 18 | Much before she was ready she was whisked up to Vendelin Gajdusek 's home , deposited outside his elegant and graceful house , and , even while she wanted to call the driver back , he was already on his way . |
| 19 | She gave every indication that she was fed up to the teeth . |
| 20 | The next day she was signed up to the top model agency Storm — and the day after that she started her modelling career . |
| 21 | As she was drugged up to the eyeballs on arrival , she had n't yet gone into shock but they were expecting it and , if she survived , then miracles could be performed . |
| 22 | At last , with her right arm in a sling and a large piece of plaster on her forehead , which she had knocked against the post , she was taken up to Mr Fennell 's suite . |
| 23 | We were rushed up to Scotland . |
| 24 | I tried to question my master on what he had learnt from d'Aubigny , once we were shown up to our chamber , but Master Benjamin was in one of his more withdrawn moods . |
| 25 | Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that . |
| 26 | We were brought up to date — or as up to date as it was possible to be . |
| 27 | We were brought up to think of the wonderland between Loch Broom and the roads to Skye as Wester Ross , and always will . |
| 28 | An older history brought this idea forward to a new era : we were brought up to be simply grateful for being alive , guilty at the fact of our existence . |
| 29 | Of , we were brought up to be polite . |
| 30 | But we always put one particular herren what we called the October blue-nosed herren because they never wasted when they were hung up to be smoked . |