Example sentences of "were [vb pp] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is believed that the great bluestones of which Stonehenge is constructed were floated up the Wiltshire Avon . |
| 2 | The last straw was located about 10 or 15ft from safety , at which handholds seemed to disappear altogether and aching feet were scrunched up the tiniest of ripples . |
| 3 | Before the New World was discovered and Australian resources were opened up the only source of opals known was situated in the Libanka and Simonka mountains north of Kosice in eastern Slovakia . |
| 4 | In the ensuing mêlée , McLaren , Reid and others of the Pistols camp were dragged up the gangplank and into the waiting police vans . |
| 5 | In the kinds of society in which most of my readers were brought up the coding of behaviour presupposes a sharp division between what goes on within the household and transactions which link the household to the rest of society . |
| 6 | Its annual fairs and three weekly markets brought sellers and purchasers from miles around and goods from overseas were brought up the river Ouse right into the heart of the city , York remained one of the leading provincial centres , despite its decline to less than 8,000 people in the 1520s after the collapse of its cloth industry and the decay of its overseas trade . |
| 7 | For almost twenty years after that various proposals were run up the flagpole , mostly to unsaluting generals . |