Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | On Jan. 2 fighters of the Fatah group ( loyal to Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) chair Yassir Arafat ) , which had been deployed to protect two Palestinian refugee camps near Sidon , were caught up in the intra-Shia fighting . |
| 32 | The conventional view has been that political strife was so intense between 1689 and 1715 because party divisions cut deep into society ; all elements of the population , from the gentry , through to the merchants , professionals , artisanal and trading classes , the small farmers , right down to the " mob " , were caught up in the rage of party . |
| 33 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 34 | Yet they were caught up in the atmosphere and importance of the occasion . |
| 35 | All the computers were cracking up on the factory floor this morning . ’ |
| 36 | The day was cold , with flurries of snow and people were muffled up to the eyes . |
| 37 | It may be that they were climbing up into the older parts of the mine above the Grand Level to ascertain whether all the worthwhile ore had been taken out . |
| 38 | The dustbin men were picking up outside The Wife 's Legs . |
| 39 | This is a highly dangerous area to sail in because the seas contain many monstrous creatures which were stirred up by the collapse of northern Ulthuan centuries ago — Kraken , huge shark-like megalodons , Behemoths and even the dread Black Leviathan are all commonly seen in the waters north of Ulthuan . |
| 40 | Well they were hung up on the board in O S D on Friday when I went down there |
| 41 | Some time ago he had ordered that the front garden be flagged over , and now the weeds were pushing up between the paving slabs and the stones themselves had sunk in the ground at one end . |
| 42 | Her breasts were pushed up by the wall she was leaning against . |
| 43 | The classroom observations ( see 1a ) were written up in the form of case studies , to include descriptive accounts of the pupil 's microcomputer use , teachers ' class organisation and intervention occurrences . |
| 44 | Their pecuniary interests were probably greater than their antiquarian ones , and their errors were written up by the historian . |
| 45 | A square vessel and parts of other domestic articles of wood were found about eight feet down in a peat moss at Strathmore , near Gruinart , and bones of a fifteen years old girl and a cow horn were turned up by the same peat diggers . |
| 46 | A few Bronze Age artifacts were turned up in the dark soil , but they had meant nothing to those who had seen them , and they had been turned back into the earth . |
| 47 | All eyes were looking up at the pit lane screens as every lap , every move , was relayed on to the tube |
| 48 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 49 | His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike . |
| 50 | We complained to Malcolm , told him we were fed up with the mice and we did n't have enough money to eat properly . |
| 51 | We were fed up with the sexism in self-organized disability movements and even more fed up with the ableism of the women 's movement . |
| 52 | National associations , like the British Boxing Board of Control , were fed up with the mobsters — so fed up that they were willing to pay an affiliation fee to one or both of these new bodies to gain the right to submit the names of boxers they licensed for title fights sanctioned by the WBA and the WBC . |
| 53 | And , despite what the media claimed , Reagan was not elected because people were fed up with the huge federal deficit and were clamoring for budget cuts … . |
| 54 | With all the bad publicity , one might think Americans were fed up with the NEA . |
| 55 | I think people were fed up with the strikes Larry . |
| 56 | Between the 1150s and the 1180s connections between the curia and Paris were built up as the studium , or university , began to form . |
| 57 | Big stresses were built up near the glue-lines ; if the glue was in bad condition it broke ; if not , the wood failed near the glue . |
| 58 | the army was , it were built up like the er , er Mafia , it were built on fear , yes |
| 59 | Our pens were collected up at the end of each session , so we never got the same pen twice , resulting in the nibs being frequently crossed . |
| 60 | The train sets were made up with the following types of coaches : |