Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That there 's more to Normski than his manic public persona is obvious here , with the music playing , and the beaming photos of himself and Janet Street-Porter that are propped up through the house . |
| 2 | Toilet seats are propped up against the wall , in the unlikely event that someone might want to buy them in a country where hygiene is pathological . |
| 3 | Most of your belongings are stacked up in the hall and the bedroom . |
| 4 | The disputes procedure , that has been in place for some time , and enables us to resolve disputes locally , if they can not be resolved locally , then they are referred up through the management systems . |
| 5 | For many Christian people who are caught up in the whirlpool of grief , the most difficult part may well be their realization that they are in fact feeling very distressed . |
| 6 | Plans cater for both an immediate accident and the long-term care of individuals who survive or are caught up in the disaster — including the rescuers . |
| 7 | I am curled up in the armchair , flicking through a book . |
| 8 | ( There are also references in the body of the text , some of which are picked up at the end of the chapter . ) |
| 9 | Enterprises like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have a unique advantage over private-sector competitors : they can keep all their profits , but their losses are picked up by the taxpayer . |
| 10 | Five talented misfits from Camden form a band playing the most ridiculed form of music in the world , are picked up by the chief of the record label that brought you the Manic Street Preachers — and ZAP ! country is sincerely rehabilitated . |
| 11 | Do n't riffle through papers , kick the table or drum fingers — all are sounds which are picked up by the microphone and have to be edited out . |
| 12 | When words are looked up in the word look-up tree , if the flag for start of compound is set , the compound tree is checked . |
| 13 | Major fisheries — those for cod of the North Sea , the anchoveta of the Eastern Pacific — occur in areas where , for various reasons , nutrients are stirred up from the bottom and the plankton can thrive . |
| 14 | I 'm sure you 've heard it thousands of times before but I am fed up with the way I look . |
| 15 | By nightfall I am fed up with the search and determined to leave tomorrow for at least one day on Drangajökull . |
| 16 | I am fed up with the power of the normally aspirated diesel engine in my ‘ 84 Ninety . |
| 17 | Smaller practitioners are fed up to the back teeth with all forms of regulation , and audit regulation in particular . |
| 18 | ‘ People are fed up of the mayhem and death wreaked by young criminals . |
| 19 | Lots of people are fed up with the way their lives are headed but they do n't often take the trouble to do anything about it . |
| 20 | The travelling public and freight users are fed up with the inequality and inadequacy of British Rail . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'd be amazed how many people live in this region because they are fed up with the rat-race , ’ he says . |
| 22 | Just as a tall building is constructed in layers , so our personalities , emotional characteristics and complexities are built up with the present as the top storey . |
| 23 | Rights to occupational and private pensions are built up during the individual 's employment . |
| 24 | The layers of paint are built up by the application of a thin wash , staining the primed canvas . |
| 25 | The layers of paint are built up by the application of a thin wash , staining the primed canvas . |
| 26 | The top and bottom are framed up with the pine overlapping 1⅛in all the way around so these panels can cap the sides and ends of the bellows box . |
| 27 | They are made up of the Polytechnic of Wales ; three national institutions in the shape of the Welsh College of Music and Drama , at Cardiff , and the College of Librarianship of Wales and the Welsh College of Agriculture , both at Aberystwyth ; six colleges or institutions of higher education ; and thirty-six other establishments ( Figure 7.1 ) . |
| 28 | We have a di , a different picture , and we make up erm pictures like you see o on these crime programmes , the videofits of suspects , you 've all seen them where th , you know got the lines between the nose and , and the mouth they are made up of the information that we 've gained from witnesses . |
| 29 | Class 1 NI are made up of the employer 's share , which you pay , and the employee 's share , which you can deduct from your employee 's pay . |
| 30 | Objections to the creation stories are made up in the name of science . |