Example sentences of "were [vb pp] up at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , these Croydon cars were broken up at Brixton Hill , standing on Erith trucks . |
| 2 | Some thing like that with er the two kids that were mixed up at their birth . |
| 3 | But new barriers were built up at every step , so he continued to seek an opportunity to resign , if this could be done without disobedience to the will of God . |
| 4 | Our pens were collected up at the end of each session , so we never got the same pen twice , resulting in the nibs being frequently crossed . |
| 5 | Plans to prevent acid house parties in the South-east were drawn up at a meeting of senior police officers and council leaders . |
| 6 | When we reached the hospital , four cars and a Land Rover were drawn up at the bungalow . |
| 7 | He looked straight at her , and she could tell from the way his lower eyelids were drawn up at the inner corners and his nostrils distended that he was trying not to cry . |
| 8 | Indeed , similarities in their formulae suggest that both were drawn up at Fécamp in 1033 . |
| 9 | Pylon inquiry : inspectors explain how the hearing will be conducted Guidelines on how the pylons public inquiry would be run in North Yorkshire were drawn up at a meeting in Northallerton this week . |
| 10 | I think that generally they came in because they liked the style erm they , they , usually had er , in their minds what they wanted and because they go round and see all these fittings at night , I mean our shop used to be all the fittings were lit up at night so that you could have a look in , erm it 's very confusing I think when you , you 've got an awful lot of fittings in , in , in a shop and , and all of them lit , decide which one 's gon na to be the best for your house , but I think most of them already had ideas what , what sort of fitting they wanted and of course we used to do a great deal of |
| 11 | We were woken up at 5.30 am , and Alex and I were told to go over to the kitchens to fetch the breakfast . |
| 12 | Three chairs were pulled up at it . |
| 13 | Organization at the grassroots level was clearly the most urgent need in order to reach remote starving villages , yet in Tsaritsyn as in other gubernii no local relief committees were set up at the uezd and volost' levels until October 1921 , that is , over two months after the formation of the guberniia committee . |
| 14 | Large generic social services departments , which arose from the proposals from the Seebohm Committee on Local Authority and Allied Personal Social Services ( 1968 ) were set up at this time . |
| 15 | During the 1950s further units were set up at London and Liverpool University to assess attitudes in industry . |
| 16 | Even outside Europe , in Canada , Catholic unions were set up at the beginning of the twentieth century in order to ‘ protect ’ French-Canadian workers from the more suspect ideological influences of American ‘ international ’ ( actually bi-national ) unions which were organising there . |
| 17 | The scheme was carried out by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration ( AAA ) and the committees were set up at a local level with farmer representatives from the various areas of production , such as wheat , cotton , dairy produce , rice and tobacco . |
| 18 | The British Crime Surveys ( BCS ) were set up at least partly because of official scepticism over police statistics , and in an attempt to counteract the portrayal in parts of the media of crime rates soaring out of control . |
| 19 | In France State-owned arms factories were set up at Maubeuge and Charleville in 1718 ; the government made itself responsible for the supply of uniforms in 1747 ; and the old system of military hospitals , which had left them largely in private hands , was abolished in 1788 . |
| 20 | During this first period ( up to 1750 ) of relatively slow and uneven growth , trusts were set up at a rate of only eight a year and were concentrated largely around London , radiating especially to the north and west and into the Midlands . |
| 21 | The results were followed up at a second Latin American consultation which was held in São Leopoldo , Brazil , in July 1992 . |
| 22 | It did n't smash , but its beams were cast up at the ceiling , throwing a gauzy light down on the room below . |
| 23 | Signs were put up at both ends . |
| 24 | Fencing and advisory signs were put up at seven Darlington play areas , which were also provided with dog faeces bins . |
| 25 | At Bridgend Hotel everything was first class grub — rooms — surroundings , but we were knocked up at five o'clock next morning to start by coach at six for Port Ellen in the south of Islay , where we were to join the steamer at half past eight to return home . |
| 26 | It hardly matters whether either of these stories is true , we know that cork was available , although not in France , and that Dom Pérignon did eventually use cork-stoppers for his wines , as corked bottles were dug up at Hautvillers when Moët & Chandon renovated the abbey in the late 1970s during its operations to turn it into a museum . |
| 27 | Within a week of the inquiry Chapman 's former stars were snapped up at bargain prices totalling £ 10,150 , the highest fee , £1,250 , being paid by Notts County for McCleod . |
| 28 | And when , in 1983 , The Guggenheim Museum opened its doors to the ‘ return of painting ’ with an exhibition devoted to Transavanguardia , works by the ‘ 3Cs ’ ( Chia , Cucchi and Clemente ) , were snapped up at prices in excess of $50,000 . |
| 29 | Like Mr Thompson they were held up at gunpoint by two men near their hotel . |
| 30 | And then we were held up at a place because some of our tanks e e the seventy ninth armoured division was er holding all the special tanks er which were flamethrowers and flails and all these sort of things . |