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 .
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