Example sentences of "[n mass] were [adv] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the diesel train came in and people were already picking up suitcases from the platform Moran turned and kissed her as if it were a last good night to all the nights she had come to him . |
| 2 | For instance you could n't , like nowadays , tighten up a slack scene where people were n't picking up their cues so quickly by cutting out a few pauses here and there . |
| 3 | People were frantically packing up fruit and vegetable stalls , pushing carts and animals into their homes ; shutters were being banged tightly shut and everyone was shouting in loud , clattering voices . |
| 4 | In the sort snow-lit darkness people were systematically sicking up the food which they had saved for so long . |
| 5 | People were always picking up hitch-hikers . |
| 6 | Mr Garner-Gray , a member of the branch executive of the National Unilever Management Association part of the Institute of Professionals , Managers and Scientists said staff were too shaken up and surprised to react immediately . |
| 7 | Mr Garner-Gray , a member of the branch executive of the National Unilever Management Association part of the Institute of Professionals , Managers and Scientists said staff were too shaken up and surprised to react immediately . |
| 8 | Last night , Gen Noriega 's armed militia were still setting up roadblocks in the city 's main financial district , while the new civilian government , headed by Mr Guillermo Endara , was kept under guard by the US military , which said it was too risky for it to appear in public . |