Example sentences of "was [verb] up in " in BNC.
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| 1 | And before I could resolve the problem I was struggling up in bed , in the pitch blackness , reaching for the shrilling telephone . |
| 2 | Marco was kneeling up in his seat , turning round to check the control panel . |
| 3 | ‘ But I was tucked up in bed early — not difficult in Dresden you know , they do n't have West German television down there — oh ! |
| 4 | That evening , when Rachel was tucked up in bed sleeping , the moment came when Fred could contain his suspicions no longer , as Carrie had expected . |
| 5 | Five minutes later she was tucked up in bed , sleeping happily once again , while Jake had retreated to his little ante-room . |
| 6 | When Bodie arrived at the hospital , first thing next morning , Ray Doyle was propped up in bed , looking as chirpy and as mischievous as ever . |
| 7 | His advisers hit on the idea of announcing that he was going on a cruise up the Hudson river where , away from prying eyes , he was propped up in a chair against the mast and anaesthetised . |
| 8 | Sour milk was hanging up in muslin , to turn into cream cheese . |
| 9 | ‘ Key was hanging up in reception . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He said he looked like the Michelin man because fluid was building up in his body . |
| 14 | A damp heat was building up in her lower body , unbearably tantalising . |
| 15 | A mutiny against the rowing establishment last summer by oarsmen being coached by him was patched up in time for the world championships in Yugoslavia , but at the end of the championships Spracklen declared that he had no future in British rowing . |
| 16 | If implemented , the demerger would be the most radical departure in the group 's 66-year history , and the biggest shake-up in the world chemical industry since Germany 's IG Farben was broken up in 1945 . |
| 17 | Formerly affiliated to the Psychopomps gangcult , her chapter was broken up in 1995 during a pitched battle with the Road Cavalry in Spanish Fork , Deseret , Jessamyn is now believed to be working alone . ’ |
| 18 | As for the mild , ramshackle Austro-Hungarian empire , it gave Bosnia peace and reasonably humane government for a few decades , until Austria-Hungary itself was broken up in 1918 — to the regret , quite soon , of many of its erstwhile subjects . |
| 19 | Their collection was broken up in 1979 , when Mr Pohrt , who bought out Mr Chandler , sold the material to the Detroit Institute of Art and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody , Wyoming . |
| 20 | He is believed to have acted as a kind of broker for that dangerous spy-ring that was broken up in Holland last year . |
| 21 | Angelica had just mentioned that Steve was mixed up in an insurance swindle , and she was afraid that was why he had missed the train . |
| 22 | ‘ Why else could they think that father was mixed up in this ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 24 | South West appointed the finance director only to have him vetoed by the Government on the grounds that he was caught up in a Department of Trade and Industry investigation . |
| 25 | Rose too was caught up in the preparations . |
| 26 | As assistant manager of powerplant quality , he was caught up in Rolls-Royce 's efforts to penetrate the civil aircraft business with the Merlin . |
| 27 | The fact that Lewis did is not a sign that he was illogical , merely that he was caught up in a spiritual drama which involved more than ‘ paper logic ’ . |
| 28 | Romero was caught up in denouncing policies which engulfed the poor in further misery and exploitation . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Nicholson was caught up in the aftermath and became Hollywood 's hottest property to emerge for two decades . |