Example sentences of "was [verb] up in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles could see at first-hand the tension that was building up in the vast depressing wastelands of the inner cities , where young people had no work , no ambition , no feeling of belonging , no pride in their surroundings — nothing , in fact , to get out of bed for in the mornings . |
| 2 | Nervous pressure was building up in the United team when Irwin put a 64th-minute corner kick deep into the heart of the Southampton penalty area . |
| 3 | But all that was happening was , the overflow pipe from the Koi quarters was partially blocked : this meant that an abnormally high head of water was building up in the main pool , bringing the level above the sealed junction between liner and blockwork . |
| 4 | Rose too was caught up in the preparations . |
| 5 | A demand for the ‘ noblest ’ architecture inevitably meant that Nonconformity was caught up in the debates over the value of Gothic architecture which went on for most of the Victorian period . |
| 6 | Nicholson was caught up in the aftermath and became Hollywood 's hottest property to emerge for two decades . |
| 7 | Despite the fact that he was personally on only the periphery of the Polanski affair , he was caught up in the backwash , in the resultant discussion of the wider issues of the counter-culture , and it was in this category that the critics had firmly placed their new star as the analysis of his role in Easy Rider continued through the run-up to the Oscar presentations and beyond . |
| 8 | A railway worker , also making his way home , was caught up in the riot and , as a result of baton blows , was deafened in one ear and had to have sixteen stitches to his head . |
| 9 | Prayers for the safety of John Dakyn were probably necessary , as he was caught up in the religious controversies of the age . |
| 10 | Waller 's double-glazing business was caught up in the plague when hooligans set his small factory on fire . |
| 11 | In 1979 as a hospital worker , she was caught up in the Winter of Discontent . |
| 12 | I was caught up in the Truby King Mothercraft doctrine of 1935 … |
| 13 | She was caught up in the drama of a big story . |
| 14 | He , too , was caught up in the excitement for jazz and with Bobby and other students went down to the Red Barn at Barnehurst , a half-hour run from Charing Cross , to hear George Webb 's Dixielanders , the band that pioneered the New Orleans revival in Britain . |
| 15 | Although he admits there were ‘ times it felt like farce — chasing a guy through the woods who was chasing the ghost of his dead father ’ , Bradley nevertheless says there were moments when he was caught up in the atmosphere . |
| 16 | As he passed again on the other side of the road on his way back forty minutes later he was caught up in the very worst time of day for traffic . |
| 17 | Now there is a whole ocean between John and me , Ianthe thought , but soon she was caught up in the bustle of landing . |
| 18 | Like her French contemporaries Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun or Adelaide Labille-Guiard , Angelica Kauffman was caught up in the contradictory politics of class and gender through the elite patronage without which she could not work . |
| 19 | The Southampton defender was caught up in the passion of Boro 's FA Cup-tie at Portsmouth last week . |
| 20 | And the fact that it was divvied up in the pubs I |
| 21 | She was picked up in the centre of town in broad daylight . |
| 22 | When the story was picked up in the press in January , Clinton dismissed the allegations as " old stories " and " trash " , but insisted that he would not discuss the details of his 17-year marriage . |
| 23 | The theme was picked up in the ornaments , which in their turn ranged from the kind of small plaster ship one won at a fairground , to a vast silver centrepiece of a battle cruiser . |
| 24 | The company was wound up in the High Court in February 1989 with tax debts of £35,520 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Heath had heeded official opinion , which argued that now too much policy-making was bottled up in the super ministry and too little was reaching Cabinet . |
| 28 | Finally , in April , 1988 , an agenda for withdrawal - many would say retreat - was drawn up in the Geneva accords : all 115,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan would be pulled out by February 15 , 1989 . |
| 29 | When Bill was growing up in the Durham of the 1930s , memories of the Great Strike of 1926 were still sharp and vivid among the mining community . |
| 30 | Yeah cos er Jim had just come on duty and she was going up in the lift with somebody and they said please can we have five pounds , your mother 's just had her hair permed |