Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gary is eating a heaped bowl of cornflakes in the kitchen , while reading Home Computer propped up against the milk bottle and listening via the hall and two open doors to a record by UB40 playing at maximum volume on the music centre in the lounge . |
| 2 | Children , trapped in the car of an innocent driver caught up in the crash . |
| 3 | As I sit down to write I have a photograph propped up on the desk in front of me . |
| 4 | Where the plaintiff claims continuing loss the judge has to decide the issue by reference to interest on the loss calculated up to the date of payment in . |
| 5 | While she was deciding whether to support the Denver Broncos or the Pittsburgh Pederasts ( whatever ) , I sneaked into the bedroom and nearly had a heart attack to find a three-foot Paddington Bear propped up on the pillow . |
| 6 | But they 've got the bloody labels mixed up by the look of it . |
| 7 | 6.3 The expiry or termination of this Agreement shall be without prejudice to the rights of the Parties accrued up to the date of such expiry or termination . |
| 8 | The founding fathers of capitalist enterprise in south-western Germany were not always rich , but the number of those with long family experience in business , and often in the industries they were to develop , is significant : Swiss-Alsatian Protestants like the Koechlin , Geigy or Sarrasin , Jews grown up in the finance of small princelings , rather than technically innovating craftsmen-entrepreneurs . |
| 9 | I said to you you got ta get these Christmas presents wrapped up for the party . |
| 10 | As far as the passengers were concerned , the unscheduled stop and the sight of an ambulance drawn up on the quayside lent an element of excitement to spirits which were beginning to flag slightly as the end of the cruise loomed closer . |
| 11 | The statutory curriculum to be followed by the nation 's five to 16year-olds from September reflects guidance drawn up by the county 's PE teachers two years ago . |
| 12 | A Plan of Action drawn up for the conference was estimated to cost between US$4,000 million and $6,000 million . |
| 13 | There is an 82-member National Assembly elected by universal adult suffrage for a three-year term from a list of candidates drawn up by the party , based on local branch committee nominations . |
| 14 | There is an 82-member National Assembly elected by universal adult suffrage for a three-year term from a list of candidates drawn up by the party , based on local branch committee nominations . |
| 15 | Hoggett 's analysis concerns itself principally with the opportunities opened up for the left by these changes , with more direct contact between service providers and consumers through neighbourhood offices . |
| 16 | There was a boat drawn up on the shore , dark oak painted white to the water line , the prow a swan 's head . |
| 17 | The Town Clerk wrote the letter of acceptance on 8th June , and a Scheme of Administration drawn up by the Charity Commissioners , now involved because of the change in status of the School , was ratified at Stockport County Court on 20th January 1860 . |
| 18 | The USSR Supreme Soviet on June 13 ordered major revisions to a programme drawn up by the government to introduce a market economy . |
| 19 | According to December reports in the Bolivian press , the number of public employees would be reduced over the next five years by over 35 per cent under a programme drawn up by the government with the World Bank . |
| 20 | Rounding a bend , she saw Water Gypsy tied up to the bank . |
| 21 | I wished I could help him then ; he looked so down in the mouth hunched up by the stove . |
| 22 | You remember that night was pretty dark , so I could n't have seen if there was a boat tied up at the jetty . |
| 23 | Maggie 's sitting hunched up on the bench , its iron legs striking chilly through her tights , conker cases under her feet , cigarette between her lips . |
| 24 | I was a speed-freaking northern oik brought up on the afro-d ultra-hip gibberish of pre-senile Charles Shaar Murray , the manic sulphatic babblings of Tony Parsons and my then hero , Julie Burchill . |
| 25 | Posidonius confessed that at first he had been disturbed by the spectacle of human heads nailed up at the entrance of the aristocratic Celtic houses , but afterwards " becoming used to it he could bear it with equanimity " ( Strabo 4.4.5 ) . |
| 26 | The second round of meetings between the commission on self-determination , chaired by Ada , and a task force on Guam set up by the administration of US President Bush was held on Feb. 22-23 , 1990 , to discuss the next steps in drafting the Commonwealth Bill . |
| 27 | A car pulled up to the fence . |
| 28 | Although the wall was originally orange , a brown shadow in the shape of a fan stretched up to the ceiling above the frying pans on the hob . |
| 29 | Registration of membership for the two political parties set up by the government to participate in the transition to civilian rule , the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) and the National Republican Convention ( NRC ) , closed on May 5 , 1990 [ for their creation in October 1989 see p. 36968 ] . |
| 30 | The car swept up to the front of the house and Alain stopped . |