Example sentences of "we [was/were] [vb pp] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were rushed up to Scotland . |
| 2 | I tried to question my master on what he had learnt from d'Aubigny , once we were shown up to our chamber , but Master Benjamin was in one of his more withdrawn moods . |
| 3 | Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that . |
| 4 | We were brought up to date — or as up to date as it was possible to be . |
| 5 | We were brought up to think of the wonderland between Loch Broom and the roads to Skye as Wester Ross , and always will . |
| 6 | An older history brought this idea forward to a new era : we were brought up to be simply grateful for being alive , guilty at the fact of our existence . |
| 7 | Of , we were brought up to be polite . |