Example sentences of "was [verb] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Seb was struggling up from the table . |
| 2 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 3 | When his father was tucked up for the night , the son would wander out into the garden and enjoy the cool air as a contrast to the fug of the sick-room . |
| 4 | Elizabeth was propped up on the pillows , with the baby lying in the cradle by the bed . |
| 5 | She was propped up on the sofa near her open window which commanded an excellent view of the whole of Canons ' Court . |
| 6 | A large handwritten notice was propped up by the door — Bürge bleibt hier ( guarantors ' seats here ) — with an arrow pointing that way . |
| 7 | Sterling — now the EC 's weakest currency following devaluation of the Italian lira — was propped up by the Bank of England , dashing hopes of an early interest rate cut in Britain . |
| 8 | The room was unpainted and the only furniture consisted of a lime green sofa , two wooden chairs and a three-legged coffee table which was propped up against the wall to prevent it from toppling over . |
| 9 | She wandered across the laboratory to where it was propped up against the wall . |
| 10 | ‘ This was propped up against the body , on the front doorstep . ’ |
| 11 | She decided that her best hope was to go up to the belvedere and see if she could find any indication at all that someone else had been involved in Gebrec 's death . |
| 12 | The hour of the evening consultation was posted up on the doctor 's door as being 6 p.m ; no final time was mentioned . |
| 13 | As soon as the mistake was pointed out , a corrected version was posted up outside the office at No 5 Queen Street , which doubles as Mrs Croll 's home . |
| 14 | A report from the Lower Franconian town of Kitzingen in May 1943 , dealing particularly with opinion among academics , salespeople , and the bourgeoisie — groups which had earlier tended to be pro-Nazi in their sympathies — stated that ‘ a disgust about the Party was building up among the people , and a rage which would one day boil over ’ . |
| 15 | peace was patched up on the basis of the status quo but military victory made it impossible to destroy the new Bulgarian union . |
| 16 | Following the other girl 's fixed gaze , Anita noticed that a large black chauffeur-driven limousine was drawing up to the edge of the road . |
| 17 | He was drawing up outside the hall when he thought of Graham Young . |
| 18 | He was gazing up at the stars , probably communing with the Mother Ship and receiving new instructions . |
| 19 | I turned to share the wonder of it , but she was gazing up at the bloom of flame surging from the chimney 's mouth , and beyond where the evening-star glittered against the deepening blue sky . |
| 20 | DeVore was pressed up against the wall , Gesell 's knife at his throat . |
| 21 | The one long straggly high street was always smothered in dust in the summer and with mud in the winter when the great stone carts lurched down from the quarries to the ‘ bankers ’ — the place where the stone was stacked up along the shore . |
| 22 | They had a two year romance in the thirties but it was broken up by the war and the appearance of Rose 's first husband . |
| 23 | The fight was broken up by the housemaster , whose ears had been open in anticipation for some days . |
| 24 | The meeting on Jan. 8 , 1990 , was attended by 10,000-15,000 people and was broken up by the police , one person being arrested . |
| 25 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 26 | All this was mixed up with the newspapers and the money . |
| 27 | The next minute she was leaping up from the bed , striding across the room and snatching the door open . |
| 28 | The late arrival had necessitated her getting out of bed and throwing on a voluminous dressing-robe in order to prepare suitable accommodation — on a night such as this , moreover , when all a body wanted was to curl up under the quilt and hide from the horrors outside . |
| 29 | Most obviously , its rising trade-union support ensured that it was to become the party of the working class , a process which was speeded up by the split within the Liberal Party during the First World War . |
| 30 | Soon another change came as wrights and blacksmiths began to work locally and this was speeded up by the coming of industry attracted by the water power of the Water of Leith . |