Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets .
2 They said whole fields were ripped up into the air !
3 On 26 December , 114 Lower Church Street and adjoining properties which had been leased to W. A. Reeves , the furnisher , since the offices were given up by the South Metropolitan Company , were sold to him .
4 They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use .
5 Often these were the starting points of big demonstrations which were broken up by the police .
6 The demonstrations were broken up by the security forces and according to unsubstantiated BPP sources some 300 people were killed during the security operation .
7 Fig. 3 showed that the clones of RAP74 whose C-terminal sequences were deleted up to the 171th amino acid residue ( lanes 2,3 and 4 ) stimulated the CAT activity to the same extent as the wild type clone , but further deletion of the C-terminal sequence up to the 128th residue resulted in a complete loss of the CAT activity ( lane 5 ) .
8 The two men were picked up on the Ross ice shelf , about 350 miles from the coastal camp at Scott base which was their original target .
9 In the 1970s , Mr Chihana spent seven years in prison as one of thousands of prisoners of conscience who were picked up by the regime but were never charged .
10 The efforts of the government and the reversal of the alliance with the intellectuals failed to keep out a trickle of French newspapers : contraband books were picked up by the Inquisition all over Spain between 1790 and 1792 .
11 In early February , in the city of Hamedan , a teenage couple talking in the street were picked up by the ’ revolutionary guards . ’
12 Neither of these points were picked up in the debate .
13 We did n't find you till late , and you were curled up on the landing , outside the kitchen door .
14 Then , my eyes were lifted up to the hill which overshadows the old city .
15 The address was , and I think still is , Kensington Court Garage , because the stables had been converted to the needs of the automobile age ; and we were perched up in the gallery .
16 Members of the Royal Marines orchestra , including some bandsmen who were caught up in the bombing , played during the hour-long service .
17 Tatham also represented investors who were caught up in the Farrington Stead collapse .
18 When Mackay launched his cavalry at the attackers ' flank to try to restore the situation , they were caught up in the rout of the demoralised infantry , now stampeding from the field , while the victorious Highlanders pressed on unchecked until distracted from killing by the chance of plunder as they reached Mackay 's baggage train .
19 Although these families rose further than any since the sixteenth century , many of the Sussex gentry were caught up in the process of aggrandisement .
20 Hundreds of thousands of people travelling home or heading out for the evening were caught up in the ensuing chaos .
21 Unless the working classes were caught up in the new sectarian movements of Protestantism ( which were themselves a reaction and response to modernity ) , they were liable to slip into unbelief .
22 How many , I wonder , were caught up in the looting frenzy themselves and are now attempting to make amends ?
23 It was never seriously in dispute , of course , that black and white people alike were caught up in the summer disturbances of 1981 .
24 Many of the leading scholars amongst the South Slavs during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were widely travelled and had studied in France , Germany , Austria and Italy , where they were caught up in the intellectual ferment which was abroad at that time .
25 The new social movements of the 1970s and the 1980s emerged outside the formal party structures precisely because of the way in which the parties of the Left , which should have articulated new emancipatory concerns , were caught up in the compromises of the 1940s .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 Yet they were caught up in the atmosphere and importance of the occasion .
30 The day was cold , with flurries of snow and people were muffled up to the eyes .
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