Example sentences of "they [was/were] [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were fed up with three-door cars , which ruled out one of three they considered at the time — the Vauxhall Nova , although this is now available in five-door . |
| 2 | They had had tea at the Ritz and drinks at the Café Royal , and then more drinks at Lyons ' Corner House in Coventry Street because they were fed up with swish places and Lyons ' seemed more like home . |
| 3 | It goes like this : back in 1983 local people decided they were fed up with repeated Indonesian Government promises that the village would soon be connected to the national electricity grid . |
| 4 | Computer expert , Andrew Eccleston , explains that they were fed up with old-fashioned forecasting methods , so came up with something new . |
| 5 | But we always put one particular herren what we called the October blue-nosed herren because they never wasted when they were hung up to be smoked . |
| 6 | Well they were hung up on the board in O S D on Friday when I went down there |
| 7 | offered initially and they were followed up by Philip of Singapore and erm |
| 8 | They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 9 | By this time , fuel and crew costs had made them uneconomic , and despite rumours that they were to be transferred to Bispham , they were broken up in Marton Depot by 1963 , all except one car . |
| 10 | The three cars on the Crystal Palace route were sold to Cohen 's at Thornton Heath depôt on 12 October 1935 and were to be broken up at Hampstead depôt , but they had to be held back until Crystal Palace route closed belatedly on 8 February 1936 , when presumably they were broken up in Penge depôt with the South Metropolitan cars . |
| 11 | RUGBY Union rookies Tony Underwood and Martin Hynes received a boost to their England hopes yesterday when they were called up for the today 's game against Leicester . |
| 12 | There is inherent bias in this study , however , as these cases were not shown to be screen negative , and the age at which polyps were found merely reflects the age at which they were called up for screening . |
| 13 | Last night I opened my eyes when it was dark and feeling a sudden want of air opened the window when to my astonishment I was in time to see Oreste carried past in the arms of an angel and I wept and called out to him but there was no reply and soon they were gone up to the heavens and lost sight of . |
| 14 | They were constructed up to a height of 50 feet in three or four storeys ( height of buildings was limited by Roman law ) . |
| 15 | There was a great crowd , singing , shouting , all very good-humoured — not , I think , because they were taking the situation lightly but because they were buoyed up by the feeling that here was something quite above ordinary political argument , a clearly defined moral issue on which people could stand up and be counted . |
| 16 | Government-approved ‘ mousetrap ’ had for so long banished regional English cheeses , for instance , that they were given up for dead . |
| 17 | At the back of the house was a lock-up gaol and if any one caused any trouble they were locked up for the night , then transported the next morning by the local ‘ taxi ’ , which was a horse and cart , to the police station at Brough to be tried . |
| 18 | Either they were made up of a large number of bronze rods , hammered to shape and soldered together . |
| 19 | Although at the time they were made up of an apparently infinite chain of familiar days , I can think of them now only as a whole . |
| 20 | They were made up of one pharmacy car , one staff car , one personnel car , two kitchen cars , one mess room car , one stores car , one break car with wards for infectious cases , and ten ward cars . |
| 21 | Earlier studies of comets jets , focused on the short-period comet Swift-Tuttle , showed that they were made up of dust particles of about one micrometer in diameter . |
| 22 | These comforted her , not because she had any faith in their message , but because they were phrased with some beauty ; they were made up of words that seemed to apply to some large and other world of other realities , and they bore witness , also , to the fact that somebody had thought it worth his while to put them up . |
| 23 | It is generally thought that they were a new people only in name , and that they were made up of tribes such as the Amsivarii , Chattuarii and Chatti , who are mentioned in earlier sources , but rarely , if at all , in later ones . |
| 24 | They were written up to 37 years ago ; following them now could result in walkers , ‘ getting lost , trespassing or even being injured on over-used , badly eroded and now quite dangerous routes ’ . |
| 25 | THEY were cooped up in a university conference chamber listening to Ian Harley , head of the British Australian Studies Association , declare : ‘ This is an earnest academic meeting and the next few days will be strenuous and demanding . ’ |
| 26 | Though the ice-box would continue to work at sea , run off the battery , the microwave could only be used while they were hooked up to the shore power supply . |
| 27 | They were set up under section 56 of the Transport Act 1962 . |
| 28 | They were set up in close succession by the Secretary of State for Scotland to study the curriculum ( Munn ) and assessment ( Dunning ) in the third and fourth years of Scottish secondary schools ; they kept in close touch with each other throughout their deliberations ; and they presented their reports with complementary recommendations at the same time . |
| 29 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 30 | That may be why chatlines , costing up to 48p a minute , have been popular with young people since they were set up in the late Eighties dangerously popular , in some cases . |