Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
| 2 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 3 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
| 4 | On another occasion when I was holed up for two days in a tiny cottage in Snowdonia while it poured with rain , an ordnance survey map , my first hand knowledge of the area and an illustrated catalogue of Turner 's work allowed me to prepare for locating the sites where he worked . |
| 5 | I was laid up for five weeks , could n't do any work whatsoever and just sleep , cuss the family , be generally grumpy , tired and achy . |
| 6 | You were set up for life with them , ’ Olive Fitzgerald of the Samaritans , bracing for a flood of calls over the next few months on their telephone helpline , told Reuters ' man . |
| 7 | Instead she was holed up for goodness knew how long with a man who clearly despised her — and not without reason , she admitted silently , leaning her forehead against the cold glass of the window . |
| 8 | In week 4 she was in bed by 8pm every night except one , when she was allowed up for a special event . |
| 9 | On one of them she was picked up for questioning by the Germans . |
| 10 | RUGBY Union rookies Tony Underwood and Martin Hynes received a boost to their England hopes yesterday when they were called up for the today 's game against Leicester . |
| 11 | There is inherent bias in this study , however , as these cases were not shown to be screen negative , and the age at which polyps were found merely reflects the age at which they were called up for screening . |
| 12 | Government-approved ‘ mousetrap ’ had for so long banished regional English cheeses , for instance , that they were given up for dead . |
| 13 | At the back of the house was a lock-up gaol and if any one caused any trouble they were locked up for the night , then transported the next morning by the local ‘ taxi ’ , which was a horse and cart , to the police station at Brough to be tried . |
| 14 | They were cleaned up for the arrival of summer and then it was not unusual if they were repaired before the onslaught of winter . |
| 15 | I did n't make up my mind , it was made up for me . |
| 16 | When I wrote my novel Hitler Needs You ( we were the people Hitler needed most ) it was picked up for review by Elizabeth Thomas , literary editor of Tribune , as being the one book for her which showed what England was really like in the thirties . |
| 17 | It was put up for £2.20 a square foot . |
| 18 | Brazil 's Free Zone of Manaus ( ZFM ) provides a good illustration of the difficulties of adjustment , even though it was set up for quite different purposes . |
| 19 | It was set up for the administrative convenience of the London banks and the defendant and has been used principally in connection with the buying and selling of stocks and shares on the London market . |
| 20 | The morning train from Sidney picked up milk from various farms for shipment to Victoria and on at least one occasion it was held up for two hours while cows , that had been turned into the bush the previous night to pick up what nourishment they could were searched for , rounded up , milked and the milk loaded for the trip to town . |
| 21 | It was dreamed up for the Monkees and its original conception was supposed to loosely parody the Beatles ' films A Hard Day 's Night and Help . |
| 22 | It had been owned by the Turner family , and my aunt 's builder husband had bought it from them and was turning it into an apartment house when he was called up for service with the Army . |
| 23 | He cant be that bad cos he was called up for England last season if Im correct ? |
| 24 | MIDFIELDER Jamie Redknapp today received some compensation for Liverpool 's early exit from Europe when he was called up for England 's Under-21 international against Turkey at Brisbane Road on November 17 . |
| 25 | The way he was fired up for last season 's FA Cup semi-final against Portsmouth , despite knowing he was to have major heart surgery the next day showed his commitment . |
| 26 | He was put up for sale before the start of this season . |
| 27 | Whilst he was laid up for six weeks in Middlesex Hospital , Minton visited him regularly and kept his family in Northumberland informed as to his progress . |