Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] up for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children were out playing in the schoolyards , shouting and enjoying the sunshine ; shops were closed up for the dinner hour . |
| 2 | They were cleaned up for the arrival of summer and then it was not unusual if they were repaired before the onslaught of winter . |
| 3 | Schemes of the same kind were drawn up for the forests of Chute , Pickering and Knaresborough , and in the soke of Somersham within the forest of Huntingdon , which the Attorney-General reported ‘ had not been in use for a long time past . |
| 4 | The boundaries were drawn up for the Directive on a Commune by Commune basis with the vast majority of Communes being entirely allocated to one or other LFA zone . |
| 5 | With competition becoming intense the first set of Motor Racing rules were drawn up for the Paris-Amsterdam-Paris race of 1898 . |
| 6 | PREMIER John Major and his bungling sidekick Norman Lamont were shown up for the joke double act they are yesterday . |
| 7 | At the back of the house was a lock-up gaol and if any one caused any trouble they were locked up for the night , then transported the next morning by the local ‘ taxi ’ , which was a horse and cart , to the police station at Brough to be tried . |
| 8 | RUGBY Union rookies Tony Underwood and Martin Hynes received a boost to their England hopes yesterday when they were called up for the today 's game against Leicester . |
| 9 | Then there was a long break as the cameras were set up for the dramatic shot over Sir Rupert Cartland 's shoulder . |
| 10 | Out of the 25 patients discharged from the hospital 21 treated by endoscopy and two treated with surgery were followed up for a mean of 28.3 and 22.5 months , respectively . |
| 11 | Eight patients of group 1 and seven patients of group 2 were followed up for a period of >3 years ( mean follow up 47 ( range 37–60 ) months for both groups ) . |
| 12 | In the same year Forbes described 22 patients with contraindications for surgery in which an endoprosthesis was placed , of these four ( 18% ) developed cholangitis , three had a repeat endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography with clearance of the ducts , and two died of unrelated causes , the remaining patients were followed up for a mean of 14 months with no complications ( 17 ) . |
| 13 | The other 43 patients underwent long term endoprosthesis placement and were followed up for a mean of 15.9 months ; six ( 15% ) developed cholangitis requiring surgery or endoscopic clearance of the ducts , there were no biliary related deaths . |
| 14 | Ten patients died of unrelated causes and the remaining 10 were followed up for a mean of 26 months with no biliary symptoms . |
| 15 | All patients were followed up for a minimum of two years through the inflammatory bowel diseases clinic . |
| 16 | Ten thousand people were taken up for a guinea a ride of a few moments . |
| 17 | In later years some swings were put up for the school , but that was after my time . |
| 18 | Finally that evening the engine pulled into Maidstone where they disembarked , and were put up for the night at the local barracks of the Royal West Kents . |
| 19 | The transformations complete , all six readers were lined up for the final photograph . |
| 20 | When his father was tucked up for the night , the son would wander out into the garden and enjoy the cool air as a contrast to the fug of the sick-room . |
| 21 | The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic . |
| 22 | Nowhere was this more apparent than in the complicated pattern of voting that was drawn up for the Council , varying according to the nature and source of the issue under discussion and ranging from simply majorities through qualified majorities to unanimity . |
| 23 | Over lunch at the Roof Gardens , an agreement was drawn up for the purchase of Powell 's share in Virgin , giving him one million pounds , the Scala cinema and the video-editing suites . |
| 24 | By such a mechanism , in which family ties played an important part , a relatively rapid ascent was opened up for the younger sons of the prosperous Catalan farmers who must leave the farm to the chosen heir ( the hereu ) ; within a generation a man could make a modest fortune , exposed to the risk of loss as well as the hope of gain . |
| 25 | It was dreamed up for the Monkees and its original conception was supposed to loosely parody the Beatles ' films A Hard Day 's Night and Help . |
| 26 | One pauper was locked up for a short time and when let out he was very quiet and all of them have been so since . ’ |
| 27 | I would say that if a person is locked up from that time at night , there 's circumstances , their perhaps observation for their own safety , erm any body else that can be trusted at night sanitation are not locked in , they have the facilities to go to the toilet during the night , I mean this person that 's just said must of obviously been ob observation or was locked up for a reason . |
| 28 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
| 29 | Thus the property was tied up for a generation . |
| 30 | ‘ Zoo Check ’ was set up for a number of reasons , here are its six aims : |