Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Arab masses , indignant at the western humiliation of Saddam Hussein , were expected to rise up against their pro-western leaders . |
| 2 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 3 | They had taken refuge from the insects and the dew when sanity returned , and were lying gazing up at the stars . |
| 4 | A second controlled explosion was carried out at 10.55pm and people were told to stay up to a mile away from the scene . |
| 5 | Ray Angel and Brian Hodgson were entrusted to come up with a suitably electronic-sounding voice . |
| 6 | This was a land where the pursuit of illusion possessed the artists ; where awkward tries at perspective were made , and revellers in scenes of feasting were shown sitting up on one elbow , on daybeds with legs disposed for the first time in recession . |
| 7 | ‘ She was wondering what they were going to get up to next . |
| 8 | More obscenities followed just as the two men were hurrying to catch up with Comfort , and then the woman stopped dead in front of Comfort and spat in her face . |
| 9 | On arrival , conference participants were invited to sign up for a workshop of their choice . |
| 10 | Yes I mean th th th th the fact that you 've got a whole range of problems an an and you , you were bound to come up against those problems if you try and define Marxist in a strict sense , and therefore you , you were always seeking to sort of make . |
| 11 | Class divisions hitherto non-existent or only latent in English society were beginning to open up as the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions gained momentum , and popular unrest was in the air . |
| 12 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 13 | The night 's events were beginning to catch up on them . |
| 14 | Evidently the rumours about Zen 's past were beginning to catch up with him . |
| 15 | The blame fell on pollution ; not the clouds of smoke and occasional waves of sulphur dioxide which were known to drift up from the industrial valleys of the Ruhr and kill off the sensitive firs , but the more insidious long-term changes implied by acid rain . |
| 16 | When it was demolished , two complete skeletons were found walled up in part of the building . |
| 17 | No-one knew of their existence in the city until 1903 , when they were found rolled up behind wallpaper in a room in the Primate 's Palace , a palace built in 1779 for Archbishop Jozef Batthyany . |
| 18 | Nothing more was heard of Cargo , who were rumoured to be considering dropping the loaves outside Dutch territorial waters , until a month ago a number of loaves of bread were found washed up on the Dutch coast . |
| 19 | Amitha : Then the Union Working Party on EOP in which the three of us were involved came up with a very well worked-out response to the EOP Code of Practice on Recruitment and Selection Procedures . |
| 20 | Instead the 20 District Health authorities involved were asked to come up with a £9,000 each by tomorrow afternoon . |
| 21 | They way he just took my hair in one hand , while we were standing looking up at that God-awful window in the great hall , and turned my head to him , and pulled me close ; tongue down my throat before I knew what was happening , and there was something adolescent and desperate beneath all that working-class directness , but Jesus , I felt wanted … |
| 22 | Last time if you were n't sure which to make we were allowed to come up with about ten papers |
| 23 | There was talk of the whole station 's being moved into purpose-built accommodation some time in the future , but so far nothing definite had been arranged , so they were forced to put up with the cramped conditions and lack of amenities , like parking . |
| 24 | Local farmers , too , were forced to face up to the unpleasant fact that they could no longer compete with the Poles because of the low cost of Polish labour and the high Reich and Polish tariff barriers . |
| 25 | The same with Bartolini pickups , they work best with Bartolini circuits , so that 's brought back into service a couple of basses that were sitting leaning up against a wall in my house . ’ |
| 26 | It was dreadful while you could n't remember what time tea break was , or what time breakfast was , or what time you were meant to line up for this , that or the other , or what time doses [ handing out medication ] was . |
| 27 | And the Russians looked to have been the victims of psychological warfare when they were left to warm up without a practice ball . |
| 28 | Cars have been popular in the movies since Mack Sennett was wrecking them around 1914 in such shorts as Lizzies of the Field — not funny to some members of early audiences , who were trying to save up for a Ford Model T or ‘ tin Lizzy ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Huh , ’ said Angalo , nonchalantly trying to swivel around in the chair in case any tentacled things with teeth were trying to creep up on him . |
| 30 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |