Example sentences of "were [vb pp] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government-approved ‘ mousetrap ’ had for so long banished regional English cheeses , for instance , that they were given up for dead . |
| 2 | These were broken up into 10,000 farms of not less than 2 hectares ( 5 acres ) . |
| 3 | Whereas water and electricity were broken up into different private companies between which there might be a degree of competition , British Telecom ( BT ) and British Gas were essentially privatized intact . |
| 4 | However their numbers have been halved over the years , as depot space has contracted : four were broken up in 1963 and the remainder numbered 600–607 . |
| 5 | Sometimes traditional economies were broken up by European competition : the cultivation of indigo , for example , collapsed with the discovery of synthetic dyestuffs . |
| 6 | ‘ After a while we turned into a field , thick with mud , and were marched up to some firm-buildings . |
| 7 | Turkish helicopters and fighter planes were flown up to 5 km inside Iraq , and at least 24 alleged PKK bases were destroyed ; the government claimed on Aug. 16 that large quantities of arms , ammunition and documents had been seized during attacks at Kharkuk , in the Durji valley . |
| 8 | LUNCHTIME in Britain was never an occasion to whet the appetite of the serious private eater : most decent restaurants were cluttered up with expense-account company clodhoppers , making maximum use of their up-market luncheon vouchers . |
| 9 | Briefly , cryostat sections were picked up on poly-L-lysone-coated slides and dried at 37°C for 2 h . |
| 10 | After each flight we were picked up on little points , such as our positioning or the way we were holding the glove : too high or too low , the wrong angle . |
| 11 | The Company made a 60-mile withdrawal to the beach at Betano and were picked up with Portuguese and Dutch civilians evacuated at the same time , the relief ships being bombed during their approach for this night landing . |
| 12 | Ten people were picked up after four hours in the water , and the eleventh after five hours . |
| 13 | They 're then taken upstream to exactly the same stretch of river they were picked up from two weeks ago and released — clearly happy to back in the territory they recognise … until this time next year , when they 'll be collected once again for another short break in their unlikely holiday location , just off the M25 … |
| 14 | In the case of Olugboja ( 1981 ) two girls were picked up by two men and taken to a remote house . |
| 15 | Later that Saturday afternoon , about 1400 hours , three of them , including Micky Wynn , were picked up by German patrol boats ; a fourth man , Able Seaman Len Denison , swam to a concrete pile in the river . |
| 16 | In the sixteenth century it was found more convenient and safer for these goods to be transported overland to the ports of northern Italy , where they were picked up by Ragusan merchants . |
| 17 | From an early stage the atmosphere was electric , and as the match progressed the Irish players were caught up on one big roller coaster of unrivalled passion and emotion . |
| 18 | From an early stage the atmosphere was electric , and as the match progressed the Irish players were caught up on one big -ENG roller coaster of unrivalled passion and emotion . |
| 19 | Public and private sector managers alike were caught up in wider social systems . |
| 20 | They would believe that all these people were caught up in this satanic net . |
| 21 | Again , I do not think that individuals are to be blamed for this : whole societies were caught up in this sexist interpretation of reality . |
| 22 | The most illustrious names in retailing from the House of Fraser to Macy 's and Bloomingdale 's were caught up in leveraged and management buyouts . |
| 23 | Books on Scottish History were mixed up with those on Volcanoes , and a particular book on World Leaders was often found in the ‘ SWAMPLIFE ’ section , between ‘ NEWTS ’ and ‘ WEEDS ’ . |
| 24 | Profits at the group continue their unbroken rise , adding 6% in the first half to £195m , as improved figures were rung up by all divisions and the dividend was upped a penny to 13.75p . |
| 25 | They allowed the blue entrails to fall on huge platters which were scooped up by young , ragged-arsed apprentices to be cleansed in vats of scalding water . |
| 26 | So small an area of land was available in Barbados when it turned to sugar in the 1640s that land prices were pushed up to ten times the level at which it had been sold for growing tobacco . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Computer expert , Andrew Eccleston , explains that they were fed up with old-fashioned forecasting methods , so came up with something new . |