Example sentences of "it [was/were] [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the army was , it were built up like the er , er Mafia , it were built on fear , yes |
| 2 | it were rolled up in a wood set er cardboard cylinder and it fetched half a million did n't it ? |
| 3 | She did not specify , even to herself , the harm that might come to Alice , but it was bound up with love , with loving a man . |
| 4 | They ha the er When it was cut up like that , in the house there was er |
| 5 | And then it was taken out and er dripped and cleaned , and then it was hung up in the kitchen to dry , and that was how the hams were done . |
| 6 | but erm er I think that er that picture I borrowed , I mean with her permission of course , erm and er I think it was hung up in the bathroom or somewhere , which was not the best place for a photograph to be really . |
| 7 | It was dug up in the sixteenth century and achieved fame almost immediately , entering the imperial collections , and being drawn by artists such as Apianus in 1534 . |
| 8 | It was dug up in a ploughed field in South Worcestershire … the precise location is being kept secret . |
| 9 | ‘ They tried to explain that it was only sand and it was all a stunt , but it was lit up with radioactivity signs and we take our environmental responsibilities very seriously . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It was lit up by Mayor Dinkins 's wife and the Cookie Monster from Sesame Street , ’ a museum curator tells me . |
| 11 | In some places the water was deep , in others it was silted up in little , narrow islands of spiky , brown reeds . |
| 12 | It is , in fact , possible to go beyond the association of these particular principles with democracy , and say that the emergence of politics as we understand it was tied up with the emergence of democracy in ancient Greece . |
| 13 | It was tied up in a parcel . |
| 14 | Newcastle Emlyn Castle was built in approximately 1240 within a loop on the River Teifi and it saw action in 1648 when it was blown up by Cromwell 's men . |
| 15 | Five British soldiers were killed in Londonderry , 10 were seriously injured and about 18 residents of a nearby housing estate were treated in hospital when early on Oct. 24 a man was forced by the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) to drive a van packed with explosives into an Army checkpoint , where it was blown up by remote control . |
| 16 | She wandered across the laboratory to where it was propped up against the wall . |
| 17 | It was pushed up to the top of the page . |
| 18 | As the boat rammed the steel plates , fabric ripping as it was dragged up against the rough barnacled side , he fired . |
| 19 | The moon had risen but no sooner did it spill its silver light over the fields than it was swallowed up by cloud . |
| 20 | It was swallowed up by London Transport , who owned the site , and became part of South Kensington underground station . |
| 21 | Cockerton had lost its individual council in 1915 when it was swallowed up by Darlington Corporation which had promised much , but delivered little . |
| 22 | I did n't make up my mind , it was made up for me . |
| 23 | In bringing it up to date and making it profitable , he had to tread warily , for although it was made up of land and property , it was essentially about people . |
| 24 | It was made up of friends , of people he enjoyed being with , and he did n't want to become like the other teams with their heavy commercial involvements . |
| 25 | Once more he was overcome with a strange feeling , but this he could recognise , for it was made up of unadulterated fear . |
| 26 | I then told him it was the Sun and I explained all about the Sun being a star and how it was made up of hot gases , and it was in the Galaxy , and our galaxy was only one of lots of galaxies . |
| 27 | It was made up of tiny dots . |
| 28 | Designed by Roger Dean , of the Royal College of Art , it was made up of 12 polyurethane foam sections joined together with contact adhesive to form a high dome , 4ft in diameter . |
| 29 | The old Eagle Warehouse had the appearance of a curve at the west end of Bothwell Street , though in fact it was made up of four straight sections each placed at a shallow angle . |
| 30 | The road was owned by Mr Dalison who gave it to the parish , in 1892 and it was made up at the cost of £40 and the improvements to the cemetery cost a further £21 140 . |