Example sentences of "[is] [verb] up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the Arctic , summer is just past its peak , with the pack ice as far north as it is likely to be , although in a month the first skin of new ice will tinkle and shimmer as it is broken up by the morning breeze . |
| 2 | Your dressing-gown 's hanging up behind the door ! |
| 3 | And er I always remember the lawyer who was acting on behalf of the union er said to these blacklegs , How would it be possible for you to see it though your window who was throwing the bricks seeing that the windows are so black and filthy you ca n't see the curtains that 's hanging up from the outside ? |
| 4 | Mrs Strange used to be at the piano when Seven Towers sang and now that she is stepping up to the rostrum , Kathryn , daughter of bass singer and choir secretary Jack Clarke , is replacing her . |
| 5 | and the pelmet is propped up by the bookcase . |
| 6 | This bloke is propped up in the corner of the cab , and blood all over the place . |
| 7 | The undeniable fact is that chlorine is building up in the atmosphere much faster than it can be coped with . |
| 8 | There is always a danger of war when you have a face to face confrontation that is building up in the Gulf at the moment . |
| 9 | Kylie 's tucked up in the back seat , her mum 's alongside , and she 's ready to complete the last day 's shooting on the £10 million film The Delinquents . |
| 10 | See if my husband wants a hand with these bits of wood he 's plonking up against the wall ! |
| 11 | The table top is tipped up into the picture plane more sharply even than in a painting by Cézanne . |
| 12 | The knot of hair at the back of the neck is , in some of the paintings , incorporated in an almost full-face view , and the back of the shoulder is tipped up into the picture plane . |
| 13 | Nearer , a blur of smoke and mist is simmering up from the snow , among all the spikiness of spire and steeple , chimney-stack and telegraph pole , the pinnacles of chapels and ventilators of schools . |
| 14 | The Government 's invited bids to save the Vulcan , but no one 's come up with the money needed to give it the necessary overhaul . |
| 15 | This concrete path is cracking up under the strain of thousands of paws padding over it . |
| 16 | Or else , because one is lifted up in the air , to be unsettled and therefore restless , anxious , tense and doubtful . |
| 17 | It 's mixed up with the levy on Copts , apparently . ’ |
| 18 | This still exists in a limited form in relation both to companies and to individuals , in that where a person is adjudged bankrupt or a company is wound up by the court , dispositions of property made by the debtor or the company after a prescribed date , usually the date of the presentation of the petition for a bankruptcy order or a winding up order , are void unless the court otherwise orders : sections 127 and 284 . |
| 19 | In most minds that entertain thoughts on either subject , the SSC is mixed up with the idea of the Higgs particle . |
| 20 | The tag is picked up at the end of a track and the synonym will also , on average , be at or near the end of a track , not in the middle . |
| 21 | Subtle shades of beige from the Crown Expressions range have been ragged to cleverly break up the colour which is picked up in the marble fireplace , pale loose cotton covers and unbleached cotton curtains . |
| 22 | As the ribber needle moves back , the stitch on it comes over the latch of the ribber needle and is picked up by the transfer needle . |
| 23 | The paint is picked up by the texture of the paper and the previous layers of paint . |
| 24 | Daily maintenance consists merely of giving the walls and floor of the pond a once-over with a soft-bristled broom , to keep down blanketweed : suspended matter is then whisked away to both filters , and what they miss is picked up by the skimmer . |
| 25 | Films such as The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ) , where a psychologist 's efforts to reform the mugger he 's picked up off the street are subverted by his own drives and the desires of his wife , The Criminal ( 1960 , The Concrete Jungle in US ) , in which Stanley Baker plays a loner trapped between the violent prison system and the criminal underworld , or The Servant ( 1963 ) , in which butler is pitched against master , focus on tensions in British society much more interesting than anything opened up by Anderson 's contemporaries . |
| 26 | The reaction is speeded up by the presence of enzymes , hence the name enzymic browning . |
| 27 | A film recorder works by taking three exposures of the image which is built up inside the box on a small high resolution monochrome CRT . |
| 28 | The subject class is made up of the majority of the population whereas the ruling or dominant class forms a minority . |
| 29 | Each rhodopsin molecule is made up of the aldehyde part of the vitamin A molecule and a protein . |
| 30 | Ouija is made up of the French and German words for ‘ yes ’ , and this would suggest that it was originally an ‘ answering machine ’ for the spirits of the board . |