Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] up like a " in BNC.
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1 | I was trussed up like a chicken for roasting . |
2 | He glanced down at his thick cock , which was standing up like a telegraph pole . |
3 | The trickiest parts was keeping the feet with their fearsome claws underneath the body while she was lashed up like a parcel . |
4 | Then she was blowing up like a bubble herself and getting fatter and fatter and more and more bulbous till she filled the whole sky and I knew that if she burst the explosion would drown me in mud too , and I could smell the slurry in my nostrils already and it was getting up my nose and I could n't breathe and … |
5 | She was nowhere near the height of Anna Beckett either , who was shooting up like a sapling . |
6 | He really was remarkably handsome , even when he was trussed up like a turkey ready for Christmas . |
7 | He was wound up like a spring , furiously angry , unable to keep still or to prevent himself from fidgeting . |