Example sentences of "[is] [verb] up [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jamie is propped up in a neatly made bed on which lie two discarded magazines of which he might have read the covers . |
| 2 | A particularly striking combination is made up of a very dark , bronze-leaved phormium next to the pure white flowers of Physostegia virginiana ‘ Alba ’ which is one of the easiest of all late summer border plants , even though it seems to be out of fashion at the moment . |
| 3 | PJ , however , is lining up with the very best . |
| 4 | The next thing I do remember is waking up in a very grand house a few streets away from where the robbery took place . |
| 5 | Yes , that 's it some odd nights we was on our way home from work , it 's going up to the even when we 're on earlies and and weekends we can go there ca n't we ? |
| 6 | In the context of schooling one significant issue that is paradoxically neglected is the ‘ rationality ’ of the working-class students ' resistance to antiracist curricula and classroom discussions in so far as this resistance is bound up with a more generalized opposition to the degrees of surveillance , discipline , authoritarianism and class domination involved in conventional forms of schooling . |
| 7 | The German preoccupation with the theory of tragedy is bound up with a more general German admiration for Greece , to which we have alluded already . |
| 8 | In his third collection of cantatas it is bound up with a highly personal use of instrumental ritornellos in dramatic recitatives . |
| 9 | Cheque book journalism is a broader and more complex issue than the confiscation of the proceeds of crime and is bound up with the more general question of media reporting of the criminal justice system . |
| 10 | With no back-up flap system the aeroplane is set up for a slightly flatter flapless approach at 130 knots . |
| 11 | This is set up in a very similar way to above , but the advantage of using continuous stationery , is that only the sections for the height of the design will need to be joined together , because we can print the width sections as one continuous piece of paper . |
| 12 | ‘ Ma 's coming up in a little , Ethel too . |
| 13 | The remaining space in the window is taken up with the currently selected command sequence . |
| 14 | Indeed it is a feature of this scene that the tension is kept up to the very last pizzicato , and of course it is no accident that Britten , when he made the concert version of the fourth interlude , had to jump to the last two pages of the act to get his conclusion . |
| 15 | Any book with an American look on its cover , a trilby , a turned-up collar , a gun and a mean expression , is snapped up on the rapidly growing street markets . |