Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I realised this was unusual for an owl , because in the wild they tend to swallow their prey whole , so I simply stopped holding on to the chick and soon she was gobbling it up in one . |
| 2 | So she had no idea , when her antics were effective , how she was using herself up in her efforts to ward off her disappearance from the world , in her girlish desire to please . |
| 3 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 4 | Hilary was depressed at your long absence ; I was cheering her up with photographs of your sporting exploits , which hang , as you know , in the master bedroom . |
| 5 | As the girl played the woman dilated her nostrils and rose slightly off the piano stool , as if someone was drawing her up by an invisible wire attached to the crown of her head . |
| 6 | Councillor Rosie was appalled that the paper was American , outlining aspects of child abuse , what to look for , and how to confirm suspicions ; it was also nearly ten years old , written by an ‘ expert ’ who had been discredited in his own country , and certainly did n't signify that the council was keeping itself up to date on matters of such importance . |
| 7 | Erm the erm the erm periodical men who used to come over harvest their job was to pitch it up in the field . |
| 8 | She was confused , one of her friends was picking her up at the studios that afternoon , not M. Apéritif , but a doe-eyed Persian who was — he said — training to be an engineer . |
| 9 | ‘ She was picking them up at random and saying things like , ‘ This boy 's in a wheelchair but that does n't stop him giving me the eye , ’ or , ‘ This is the college stud but he cuts no ice with me . ’ ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I was to pick her up by the Souk Al-Gadira . ’ |
| 11 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 12 | The next thing I knew he was pulling me up by my hair . |
| 13 | Hands was pulling himself up among the sails now , the knife between his teeth . |
| 14 | The issue , as far as I can see , and I was told , when I was growing it up in school , about the holocaust and that we must ensure that everybody remembers about the holocaust in Germany , and that it should never ever be allowed to happen again . |
| 15 | He was sending himself up to a degree , but it does n't matter . |
| 16 | And wished he had n't because , two weeks later , Donald was holding him up with a sawn-off shotgun for an hour and a half . |
| 17 | Mike was holding it up for Mr. Rowbotham to see . |
| 18 | It was a full fifteen feet and the offshore wind was holding it up like a crystal tower . |
| 19 | ‘ How did you feel , ’ he said , ‘ when the monkey was holding you up on the roof ? ’ |
| 20 | Now , his security escort was dishing him up to her on a plate . |
| 21 | Now I was looking at the other fella a strong comparison , I was mixing him up with I |
| 22 | I had a lot of hassle cos I was mixing it up with D R DOS . |
| 23 | Once he 'd achieved erection the trick was to keep it up without coming but without losing rigidity . |
| 24 | Laura was cutting something up into small pieces , with a cookery book open in front of her . |
| 25 | She was also clutching his knee and he was swinging her up on his foot at every step and she was screaming and laughing . |
| 26 | Anne was surprised that nobody was taking her up on it . |
| 27 | Dad paid over the four shillings and while he was entering it up in the book said , ‘ Mr Priest , I was wondering if yer could give me permission to build a small wooden shed facing the house ? ’ |
| 28 | Scamp turned to reach down into one of the boxes of groceries that were scattered over the floor but I did n't see what he was after as Nevil was lifting me up by the shoulders . |
| 29 | Shama , who was lifting herself up on her lame legs , turned with a puzzled expression . |
| 30 | He was setting it up by way of defence to her application for leave to proceed on the judgment . |