Example sentences of "i was [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the communicating voice tube I was invited up to the bridge . |
| 2 | ‘ He has been seized with his fits three times in the space of seven days , ’ Coleridge wrote to Joseph Cottle on 15 March ; ‘ and just as I was in bed , last night , I was called up again — and from 12 o clock at night to five this morning he remained in one continued state of agoniz 'd Delirium . ’ |
| 3 | One morning I was called up in front of the 2ème Bureau and walked into an office to be interviewed by three Sergeants who spoke perfect English . |
| 4 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
| 5 | As it happened my ‘ tablees ’ were fine and fun-filled and the only remaining knee jerk came after the Duchess had made an excellent speech and I was called up before 150 people for the photo call , which turned out to be a speech . |
| 6 | What happened was I happened to be in the corridors there and the gentleman came in , that 's on the Friday afternoon , gentleman came in and asked to see the Headmaster , so I took him along to see who was the Headmaster then , and erm shortly after that I was called up to see and erm asked me if I 'd like to apply for this job because had seen me erm bringing me up to , bringing him up to see and he said erm , well what about that young fella who brought me up there and would he like to apply . |
| 7 | And then from there , in nineteen forty three , I was called up . |
| 8 | And then the whitewater caught me so I proned out and hung on — I was eaten up then I was spat out and then I was eaten up again and spat out again and the beach was right there , so I threw the board away and just rolled and rolled and tumbled , and I ended up in the river on the far side of the berm . ’ |
| 9 | And then the whitewater caught me so I proned out and hung on — I was eaten up then I was spat out and then I was eaten up again and spat out again and the beach was right there , so I threw the board away and just rolled and rolled and tumbled , and I ended up in the river on the far side of the berm . ’ |
| 10 | The fact was that all sorts of strange gear-shifts were taking place within my psyche , and I was eaten up by the morbid drama of Frankenstein . |
| 11 | I was padded up with me mate and she says I just went weird . |
| 12 | Just after I 'd finished at college , I went along to someone 's party and I remember telling this girl who I was chatting up that I played bass . |
| 13 | ‘ I was dragged up down Monkey Park , went to school wi' me arse hanging out ; I 've worked for everything I 've got . ’ |
| 14 | I crouched , shivering with cold , until I was dragged up and thrown into a huge cage on a gaudily painted cart and driven down through the Shambles and Westchepe to the magistrates at the Guildhall . |
| 15 | Then , when I was grown up I saw the film The Sinking of the Titanic and it brought back the terror . |
| 16 | She made the ascent of Nevis a pleasure , but now I was grown up and Wendyless . |
| 17 | When I got the job on the building site , Mr Jackson said I was grown up enough to live on my own . |
| 18 | I gazed at this scene thinking that of all of the things I wanted when I was grown up , the one I wanted most was to play a harmonium . |
| 19 | Except at the cinema , I never saw a man and woman kiss each other , until I was grown up . ) |
| 20 | ‘ I wish I was grown up , ’ Nigel said . |
| 21 | Well a as soon as she gave me this erm protective thing to wear and and then told me that I was grown up and every . |
| 22 | For appearances ' sake I maintained the fiction that I was setting up an independent enterprise in the EFL field . |
| 23 | Certainly when I was setting up my studio in the country , the nice thing was that we did n't do anything standard ; we did n't take anything for granted , whether it was mics , positions of drums or anything . |
| 24 | But I was setting up my business . |
| 25 | J. Chapman , Sledmere Drive , Acklam , Middlesbrough : I was a final year pharmacy student in Sunderland and I was setting up apparatus for a chemistry experiment , when another student came in with the sad news that the King had died . |
| 26 | Every Saturday morning , while I was setting up the barrow , Mr Salmon used to disappear off to the Whitechapel synagogue leaving his wife to run the shop . |
| 27 | ‘ When I was setting up the Fine Chemicals Manufacturing Organization [ FCMO ] in the early '80s , there was no doubt quality was the main way to compete more effectivey and raise performance . |
| 28 | ‘ I was jumping up and down in my seat as I heard the end of the race , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's a rather shoddy model though , a lot of psycho-spoor left lying around when it 's in operation — that must be what I was picking up . |
| 30 | And if they somehow suspected that I was picking up something valuable , why would any of them try to kill me before the pick-up ? |