Example sentences of "was [verb] up [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked wild-eyed , and his hair was sticking up at all angles . |
| 2 | For all he knew , Gwen was lying upstairs dead and the man in front of him was building up to another outburst . |
| 3 | He was darting up to each of the dogs in turn , ears pricked , eyes blazing with devilment , dabbing a paw at them then streaking away . |
| 4 | There was scaffolding up outside this particular one and a pair of rugged , manly types were bolting a large sign into place . |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose I read too many thrillers but in the end I 'd convinced myself you 'd got too tough and killed somebody and George was mixed up in that ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Why else could they think that father was mixed up in this ? ’ |
| 7 | The luxurious long black hair was caught up in another sleek French plait , exposing a smooth high forehead and expertly plucked eyebrows … |
| 8 | He was carried up to that garret , probably in a state of stupor , drunk or drugged . |
| 9 | After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established . |
| 10 | ‘ I was climbing up through this favela ; I should n't even have been there . |
| 11 | It was filling up with more and more people . |
| 12 | A Section was made up of those who had passed the 2ème Bureau interview , and we were given red strips of cloth to wear on our epaulettes to show that we had passed our selection . |
| 13 | In it , the Welsh Office stated that a solution for Wales had to take into account four major factors which distinguished it from England : the Welsh Office had been responsible for public sector higher education in Wales since 1978 ; the scale of the problem was quite different in that only eight local authorities and a small number of colleges were involved ; the Regional Advisory Council for the whole of Wales , the WJEC , was made up of these local authorities ; and it did not make sense , either on economic or educational grounds , to expect colleges in Wales to provide as wide a range of provision as would be expected in England . |
| 14 | The sample of schools was made up in such a way that the 50 schools , as a whole group , where representative of Scottish secondary schools . |
| 15 | Well I agree with that but I want to make a few points first of all , because poll tax was tangled up with this . |
| 16 | He looked ahead to where the road curved openly up to the left , free road ahead , that 's where he was going up on that open road ahead with this great sense of power behind his eyes , behind his shoulders , in his thighs . |
| 17 | seemed that my chap was wrapped up in Another — An |
| 18 | I had the odd George II and George III copper , but these were in the minority and it was the 17th century coinage that was popping up with some regularity . |
| 19 | His whole life was bound up in this relationship , despite the fact that the fief he received was not large , and that he also possessed allodial lands . |
| 20 | Her husband , who had put up with a great deal , and was to put up with much more , was not yet prepared to lose his marital rights . |
| 21 | Alan the Reddler was woken up by all the greetings : |
| 22 | I did n't twig at the time but really she just wanted to hang out in the shop and she was coming up with any old excuse she could find to be in there . |
| 23 | After an initiative by JWT , a committee was set up under former Treasury mandarin Sir Leon Pliatzky to examine production practices and to recommend action to control cost inflation . |
| 24 | The Highlands Congested Districts Board was set up for this purpose in 1897 , but it was able to achieve very little . |
| 25 | In 1962 ELDO was set up on this basis — with the L standing for launcher . |
| 26 | At first the ramp was set up without any flat bottom or platforms and three feet of vert , the ramp remained like this for about half a year . |
| 27 | The corporation was set up in that far-sighted move to stimulate and control the regeneration of the docklands area . |
| 28 | It is understood that Farrington Stead was set up by former employees of Barlow Clowes . |
| 29 | The aquarium was set up like this for two weeks . |
| 30 | But he was laid up after that and we did n't see him for days . |