Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others were picked up opportunistically because a visitor or student arrived with just the right skills or interests to move ahead on a front I might otherwise have neglected . |
| 2 | Staff were mopping up today as Mr Alton held his usual surgery . |
| 3 | Richard Norton-Taylor adds : Contingency plans for the use of troops in ambulance disputes were drawn up shortly after the Government came to power in 1979 , Whitehall documents show . |
| 4 | Richard Norton-Taylor adds : Contingency plans for the use of troops in ambulance disputes were drawn up shortly after the Government came to power in 1979 , Whitehall documents show . |
| 5 | In 1929 the Northern Ireland parliamentary boundaries were drawn up so as to attach areas of the surrounding countryside to the city centre , creating the safe Unionist seat of City of Londonderry , while the mainly Catholic areas were put into the Nationalist seat of Foyle . |
| 6 | They were put up yesterday because of the problems with the Social Services Department , one of which of course was it 's previous overspend . |
| 7 | Patrick was climbing up there when he heard his name called . |
| 8 | Er anyhow th th the , the eventual thing was maybe her blood pressure was going up higher than it should and maybe whether the cumulative stress of having a husband off in my state , maybe |
| 9 | Peterborough 's HAH was set up more than 10 years ago , adapted from a system in Bayonne , France . |
| 10 | She was giving up anyway when the baby came , so she might as well go a little early . ’ |
| 11 | It did n't see to matter that the match was still in progress and was to end up even when Tom Watson , Mark McCumber , Lanny Wadkins and Curtis Strange beat Sam Torrance , Gordon Brand Jnr , Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam . |
| 12 | The skull of a Celtic princess which was dug up more than a hundred years ago could soon be given a face . |
| 13 | All was cleared up later when the hotel manager came to investigate but our sympathies must go to the hapless Security Gorilla , as recent photographic evidence proves that mistaking Bob Dylan for a tramp with salubrious lodgings in Cardboard City is something even hardened celeb watchers like ourselves have done at some point or another . |
| 14 | He was n't prepared to do anything else there no ar and he was he was to have these plant hire , you know these two , when when his old man used to work us us in the quarry , well this was working up there as well , he had lads working on the plant hire for him . |
| 15 | He was held up again when he needed to turn into Mulfords Hill because no one would let him into the flow . |