Example sentences of "[verb] to [be] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader has to be led up the garden path . |
| 2 | The safest course of action seemed to be to shore up the bunker and make sure I did nothing to upset the fragile eco-system that was supporting me , for however much we wanted to disguise it , I had nothing to fall back on . |
| 3 | Only people with soft heads stick them in the sand and wait to be kicked up the arse by little cheats and liars . |
| 4 | The noise thus created is thought to be passed up the animal 's windpipe and into the sinus cavities of the skull , where it resonates to produce the purring sound . |
| 5 | But , by now , he would have had to be moving up the ladder , getting experience of command . |
| 6 | Er , let's , they are , seem to be setting up the s the administrative structures for regional government , without any democratic regional government taking part in the process . |
| 7 | This is followed by pushing the arms above the head , so that the cross breaks and the student appears to be holding up the ceiling . |
| 8 | More than once flight recorder transducers have been found to be connected up the wrong way round , showing a turn to the left when in fact it was a turn to the right or showing a nose-up attitude when it was really nose-down . |
| 9 | ‘ I did not feel guilty about having to be kicked up the arse . |
| 10 | This time he seems to be picking up the signals of some approaching hostility towards him . |
| 11 | This evening seems to be going up the spout . |
| 12 | Socialist Worker appeared to be soaking up the potential trade union readership , while the audience of students in revolt could dwindle — although with the formation of the Revolutionary Socialists Student Federation there were hopes that the ‘ new vanguard ’ might survive to detonate the proletarian uprising . |
| 13 | He felt as abject as a convalescent child and had to be helped up the three stone flights to his cell . |
| 14 | By now my courage had failed and I had to be helped up the steep , wooden steps , the executioner 's assistants whispering that if I made a good show they would make sure I would choke for no more than ten minutes . |
| 15 | The wording referring to the specific location in the location description would by definition have to be drawn up the region , cos they would have intimate knowledge of the locality that er sorry and the costs would be drawn up by the region because they would know as I say intimately they would know that specific development |