Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 15 November , he wrote to me at 41A Roland Gardens : The Tuesday was duly fixed up , and we prepared as good a meal as the rationing system , still in operation , made possible . |
| 2 | So the Quad-FX was duly hooked up . |
| 3 | A Fish Association was duly set up under the chairmanship of the Duke of Kent . |
| 4 | The judicial commission of inquiry , announced by the Prime Minister , Vere Bird Sr , on April 25 , was duly set up under the chairmanship of a British QC , Louis Blom-Cooper . |
| 5 | The scrap of paper was furiously filling up with pictures of trees and flowers , which Alyssia hardly looked at at all . |
| 6 | And now Withel was slowly getting up , a look of absolute hatred on his face . |
| 7 | Despite the carpeted floor and the mules on her feet , Meryl already felt chilled , as if cold water was slowly rising up her legs . |
| 8 | When Tallis looked back at the leader he was slowly sitting up , reaching for his sword . |
| 9 | The old Whig platform for constitutional reform was slowly taken up by the London Tories , with the result that by the last years of Anne 's reign they had largely absorbed their opponents ' former libertarian rhetoric . |
| 10 | My subject of frost covered trees and hedgerows involved little colour and was mostly worked up in a sequence of colour tinted greys bearing reference numbers in the 800s . |
| 11 | George Underwood : ‘ When we arrived , everyone was rather dressed up and we wore jeans , we were rather shabby looking and got some funny looks . |
| 12 | I said I was rather tied up at the school over most week-ends ; though the half-term holiday was the week-end after next and I might just be in Athens then — but I could n't be sure . |
| 13 | Grandfather 's principal interest was to hear the one who played the piano but when he got there he was rather taken up with the violinist . |
| 14 | When the factory was occupied in protest , the Ministry of Labour declared the strike illegal and the occupation was forcibly broken up a week later . |
| 15 | It was eventually swallowed up by the expanding city . |
| 16 | The wheel was never repaired and was eventually broken up for scrap . |
| 17 | The third category was eventually broken up and distributed into the yes/no compartments through consultation with those involved and colleagues . |
| 18 | The deal that was eventually drawn up between Boeing and Virgin was of a complexity unprecedented even in R.Q. Wilson 's considerable experience . |
| 19 | Interest in the subject having thus been aroused among learned men in western Asia , a scientific institute was eventually set up in Baghdad after the Muslim conquest of much of that region . |
| 20 | After US obstruction , a Committee of the Board of Governors of the IMF was eventually set up for this purpose late in 1972 . |
| 21 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 22 | It would make things far worse for him when he was eventually brought up for trial . |
| 23 | It was eventually delivered up to Nicholas Stone shortly after Donne 's death in March 1631 for transformation into stone . |
| 24 | For most of the period from 1912 to 1945 Rhee lived in the United States where he was eventually to build up support from American friends , who assisted in financing his activities . |
| 25 | One wall was wholly taken up with books while the other walls were hung with home-produced charts in which numbers and symbols formed elaborate geometrical patterns . |
| 26 | The point argued here is that characteristically German bourgeois identity was fundamentally bound up with statist ideology . |
| 27 | As such , much of the debate over homosexuality was intimately bound up with the wider argument that has already been identified over the role and significance of the modern ‘ nuclear ’ or ‘ bourgeois ’ family . |
| 28 | It is only too obvious that this balance between action and personal life was intimately bound up with the conditions of clandestine action and could not survive it . |
| 29 | Even if individually neither their lives nor their property were secure , collectively they constituted an interest group with whom the Grand Prince was intimately bound up . |
| 30 | He was badly beaten up by late substitute Carl Thompson , who scaled 13st 3lb — around 17lb more than Benn will weigh tonight — and went on to become British cruiserweight champion . |