Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I thought you did well in erm giving yourself credibility by talking about the shares , oh yes you can have two hundred and fifty pounds per month in the shares and they 've done well and I said oh yes they have done well , and I felt good that you were praising me up for being such a clever chap , and so I thought that was all , all jolly good stuff . |
| 2 | Always out for a laugh , I mentioned that his volumes of ‘ free verse ’ were costing me up to $2. per copy , and he promised to send me his next book . |
| 3 | Did n't particularly hate it , I du n no , I mean I had no idea that they were camping anything up from that record . |
| 4 | You were holding it up to the window . ’ |
| 5 | All down the corridor people were propping themselves up against the walls , or lying on the floor singly or in couples . |
| 6 | The poorest families who spent more time at home , like the unemployed , were having anything up to £35 per week from their Social Security Benefits deducted and paid direct to the fuel companies to cover fuel debts . |
| 7 | Whilst Jean was there , the women were spending anything up to twenty-three hours a day locked in their cells . |
| 8 | You follow me you were to keep it up as a habit and keep to the habit |
| 9 | But with a th a single wardrobe ironically you ca n't get them up the stairs because soon as you reach that step you 've got another step so if you were to lift it up to the next step it 'll hit the top of the d doorjamb so it wo n't go any further . |
| 10 | Those wicked dark eyes of his were lifting her up into another planet . |
| 11 | The DHSS were playing me up over the removal grant , so one of my sons went up to the house to see if there were any letters — everything had been smashed , crocks were smashed and the beds were slashed . |
| 12 | They mentioned that you and Anna walked a hundred miles and that you were following it up with a heavy date . |
| 13 | Then I realised this was unusual for an owl , because in the wild they tend to swallow their prey whole , so I simply stopped holding on to the chick and soon she was gobbling it up in one . |
| 14 | So she had no idea , when her antics were effective , how she was using herself up in her efforts to ward off her disappearance from the world , in her girlish desire to please . |
| 15 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 16 | Hilary was depressed at your long absence ; I was cheering her up with photographs of your sporting exploits , which hang , as you know , in the master bedroom . |
| 17 | As the girl played the woman dilated her nostrils and rose slightly off the piano stool , as if someone was drawing her up by an invisible wire attached to the crown of her head . |
| 18 | Councillor Rosie was appalled that the paper was American , outlining aspects of child abuse , what to look for , and how to confirm suspicions ; it was also nearly ten years old , written by an ‘ expert ’ who had been discredited in his own country , and certainly did n't signify that the council was keeping itself up to date on matters of such importance . |
| 19 | Erm the erm the erm periodical men who used to come over harvest their job was to pitch it up in the field . |
| 20 | She was confused , one of her friends was picking her up at the studios that afternoon , not M. Apéritif , but a doe-eyed Persian who was — he said — training to be an engineer . |
| 21 | ‘ She was picking them up at random and saying things like , ‘ This boy 's in a wheelchair but that does n't stop him giving me the eye , ’ or , ‘ This is the college stud but he cuts no ice with me . ’ ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I was to pick her up by the Souk Al-Gadira . ’ |
| 23 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 24 | The next thing I knew he was pulling me up by my hair . |
| 25 | Hands was pulling himself up among the sails now , the knife between his teeth . |
| 26 | The issue , as far as I can see , and I was told , when I was growing it up in school , about the holocaust and that we must ensure that everybody remembers about the holocaust in Germany , and that it should never ever be allowed to happen again . |
| 27 | He was sending himself up to a degree , but it does n't matter . |
| 28 | And wished he had n't because , two weeks later , Donald was holding him up with a sawn-off shotgun for an hour and a half . |
| 29 | Mike was holding it up for Mr. Rowbotham to see . |
| 30 | It was a full fifteen feet and the offshore wind was holding it up like a crystal tower . |