Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] up at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that generally they came in because they liked the style erm they , they , usually had er , in their minds what they wanted and because they go round and see all these fittings at night , I mean our shop used to be all the fittings were lit up at night so that you could have a look in , erm it 's very confusing I think when you , you 've got an awful lot of fittings in , in , in a shop and , and all of them lit , decide which one 's gon na to be the best for your house , but I think most of them already had ideas what , what sort of fitting they wanted and of course we used to do a great deal of |
| 2 | Within a week of the inquiry Chapman 's former stars were snapped up at bargain prices totalling £ 10,150 , the highest fee , £1,250 , being paid by Notts County for McCleod . |
| 3 | Like Mr Thompson they were held up at gunpoint by two men near their hotel . |
| 4 | Here is an actual contract for ‘ taking the harvest ’ : it was drawn up at Grove Farm by old George Rope some time during the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | They watched Marie as she trailed down the steps by the artificial waterfall that was lit up at night with pink and green floodlights . |
| 6 | My son was brought up at Court , where she remained while I was on active service . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ For a Manchu son , ’ Rostov observed , ‘ but mine was brought up at Court . ’ |
| 8 | Earlier in the month , security was stepped up at border crossings , department stores , railway stations and airports after reports that a terrorist commando was planning raids from a base in Spain . |
| 9 | When he was not ducking and weaving through the cedar brush with this curious hat on his head , Gould was sitting up at night on the Appletree Flats waiting to ambush a tawny-shouldered podargus or crouching next to a hole in the ground close to Stephen 's garden gate waiting for the appearance of an unfamiliar little mouse . |