Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] up in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about midnight when all the children were tucked up in bed we visited the Grotto . |
| 2 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
| 3 | By this time , fuel and crew costs had made them uneconomic , and despite rumours that they were to be transferred to Bispham , they were broken up in Marton Depot by 1963 , all except one car . |
| 4 | The three cars on the Crystal Palace route were sold to Cohen 's at Thornton Heath depôt on 12 October 1935 and were to be broken up at Hampstead depôt , but they had to be held back until Crystal Palace route closed belatedly on 8 February 1936 , when presumably they were broken up in Penge depôt with the South Metropolitan cars . |
| 5 | Up to half of the houses were boarded up in areas that were starving . |
| 6 | They were picked up in London , Essex , Hertfordshire , Bedfordshire , Bucks , Dorset , and Newcastle . |
| 7 | While Eloise was sailed round to Holyhead with a prize crew from the cutters on board , more arrests were being made around the country and suspects were picked up in Sussex , Dorset , London , South Wales and County Durham . |
| 8 | For it was in St Jude 's Passage that such corpses as were picked up in Frizingley — whether they had been reported missing or not — were usually found . |
| 9 | On the M4 near Swindon twenty two vehicles were caught up in crash . |
| 10 | In the late Eighties Jeremy Ridgway and David Bennett , Zimbabwe-born but living in London , produced the ‘ Cum ’ paintings which were made up in part from semen and shown in New York . |
| 11 | The US Secretary of State James Baker met subsequently with Shevardnadze and welcomed the proposed cuts at a joint press conference , although he had earlier expressed doubts as to whether the cuts were in fact new or were made up in part by other previously announced withdrawals . |
| 12 | It is interesting to note that all the prescriptions subsequent to Phos LM3 were made up in 5ml dropper bottles except Phos LM8 which was put in a 100ml bottle by mistake and did n't have the same effect . |
| 13 | We drove on to the top of the road and drew up outside a compound surrounded by a wire fence ; inside was a large white building surrounded by an expanse of gravel on which a huge group of people were drawn up in lines . |
| 14 | The whole horse militia of Westmorland and northern Lancashire , and all the militia of Cumberland , were drawn up in front of the little Lake District town , under the chief local landowner , Lord Lonsdale , and with 10,000 men they easily outnumbered the rebels , but a mere sight of Forster 's advance guard was enough and the whole body fled in terror , leaving the field littered with horses and arms . |
| 15 | These factors were : ( 1 ) its organisation which acquired the films and the exclusive overseas rights therein was in Hong Kong ; ( 2 ) its sales organisation was in Hong Kong ; ( 3 ) the representatives who were sent abroad were part of the Hong Kong sales organisation ; ( 4 ) the sub-licences were drawn up in Hong Kong , according to Hong Kong law , and were dispatched from Hong Kong ; ( 5 ) the films were either delivered in or dispatched from Hong Kong ; ( 6 ) the films at the expiry of the sub-licence period had to be returned to Hong Kong or were destroyed ; and ( 7 ) payments for the grant of the sub-licences were received in Hong Kong . |
| 16 | All her apprehensions were swallowed up in excitement , but then she did not have the responsibility of a wife and family . |
| 17 | The room was as bare as if all the brothers ' possessions were packed up in trunks and cases and put away in preparation for imminent departure . |
| 18 | Simple cottages of compacted chalk and flint with front walls the depth of a single brick were flung up in rows of squalid terraces with neither drains nor water supplies ; what had been normal in rural Sussex soon became a trap of disease and hopelessness . |
| 19 | Even though it was daylight the strings of coloured bulbs were lit up in Sir Walter Raleigh Park . |
| 20 | Army reservists were called up in Belgrade on May 7 and soldiers were placed on May 8-9 on guard at three Danube bridges ( hitherto controlled by Croatian police ) amid fears that the tensions would spread to Bosnia-Hercegovinia , where the residents of villages near Listica were blocking the passage of a military convoy into Croatia . |
| 21 | But these analogies — murder , euthanasia — were summoned up in order to generate a remorse he did not instinctively feel . |
| 22 | They were brought up in court and I think that influenced his decision . |
| 23 | Their six children were brought up in Thornaby . |
| 24 | ‘ If you were brought up in Brixton or Hackney , and have been stopped regularly for no reason by the police , you are bound to view them with a bit of hatred ’ … . |
| 25 | What , and I were brought up in church ? |
| 26 | North also said that biblical verses were brought up in conversation , though they do not seem to have made it onto the surreptitious tape . |
| 27 | So you were brought up in Nottingham were you ? |
| 28 | By the time he was nine both parents had died , and Trevor and his sister were brought up in Wisbech by their maternal grandparents . |
| 29 | Two bodies were set up in October 1990 to press for the introduction of multiparty democracy and the convening of a national conference on the country 's political future . |
| 30 | On a constitutional point , does my right hon. Friend agree that if an assembly were set up in Scotland with responsibility for health , trade and industry , and taxation north of the border — |