Example sentences of "was up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The F T Newspaper which includes magazines , electronic publishing and was up a bit . |
| 2 | He came out like a rocket and was up a tree before we had time to say goodbye . ’ |
| 3 | The F T Associates which is er includes the Economist in Spain was up a lot and Westminster Press was er was down , but of course Westminster Press took a major redundancy charge , they were also bringing on a new plant at Brighton and therefore running two plants simultaneously which is very costly er and they launched on Sunday . |
| 4 | Gretchen was up a ladder now , sticking Bethlehem stars over the bulletholes on the ceiling . |
| 5 | When that time was up an envoy from the Iranian Embassy in Paris had been violently beaten up when he called at the shipowner 's apartment . |
| 6 | I knew something was up the minute Tod started selling all the furniture . |
| 7 | Such as that I was trying to use the priesthood as an escape from my personal frustration , that I was dramatizing my own situation , that I was proud and vain , that my idea of Catholicism was up the creek . |
| 8 | The next minute I was up the tree with him . |
| 9 | The toilet was up the hall , with a broken window through which the wind whipped directly up your arse . |
| 10 | Sitting there , above him , watching him slowly keel over and close his eyes , Marie was remembering something else : ‘ Our Mam said Simon 's Dad was up the factory on Friday , did n't she ? |
| 11 | They were a group of twelve , mainly Icelandic , but with two Norwegians and a Canadian , and now joined by an English cyclist who pretended , when convenient , to be Welsh , The intended route was up the south-west side of the Öræfajökull , the glacier being climbed during the night , although in June the sun only barely dips below the northern horizon at midnight . |