Example sentences of "was [vb pp] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elinor , in a cream silk bedjacket , was propped up by a stack of frilly pillows ; she looked old and frail . |
| 2 | His advisers hit on the idea of announcing that he was going on a cruise up the Hudson river where , away from prying eyes , he was propped up in a chair against the mast and anaesthetised . |
| 3 | Alcock was cheered up by a letter from his CO at Mudros telling him the ‘ Your baby has just been given a new suit of clothes and is learning to walk . |
| 4 | Angelica had just mentioned that Steve was mixed up in an insurance swindle , and she was afraid that was why he had missed the train . |
| 5 | Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear . |
| 6 | She was tall , a little on the stout side , and had long brown hair with one or two streaks of grey in it which was caught up in a bun perched on the top of her head . |
| 7 | And that 's why I 'm saying that , leading up to the Donovan Report and because I was caught up in a situation along with my colleagues , that we were changing a system er and you know , a new incentive scheme , that we were increasing production . |
| 8 | From the very first moment of her return to the vicarage Ruth was caught up in a whirlwind of work . |
| 9 | South West appointed the finance director only to have him vetoed by the Government on the grounds that he was caught up in a Department of Trade and Industry investigation . |
| 10 | She felt Terry 's hand running over her body , kneading her breasts and shoulders , and was caught up in a feeling of presentiment . |
| 11 | Then , just as Tabitha was opening her mouth and wondering what she was supposed to say , a hideous crackling noise came over the robot 's speaker , and its picture was torn up by a burst of interference . |
| 12 | I travel on an Irish passport and in going through Immigration was looked up in a register of , I presume , suspects . |
| 13 | Nina was curled up under a bed upstairs . |
| 14 | Pike was curled up into a ball , like a hedgehog , clutching his wig to him the way a kid might hold on to its teddy before going to sleep . |
| 15 | The old office boy , Alistair soon saw , was curled up in a sleeping-bag under a work table in the outer room . |
| 16 | When the keeper came up to check on the Spectacled Bears , she could n't understand that Omero and Minky were trying to tell her that Sam was ill , she just saw that he was curled up in a ball and would n't move . |
| 17 | Mo was curled up in a bundle under the eiderdown . |
| 18 | He found her where she clung to a rope that was curled up in a corner of the iron ship and picked her up and carried her through a secret tunnel down through the floor of the ship , down through the underwater creatures , deep into the earth beneath the swirling sea . |
| 19 | He landed about 300 yards from a destroyer and was picked up with a leg broken in four places and a broken arm . |
| 20 | TONY White was picked up within a month of the robbery at his Rotherhithe home , on suspicion of handling . |
| 21 | No girl , reported David Riesman , the sociologist , would go to a dance unless she was picked up in a car belonging to or driven by her escort , which was likely to be ‘ the second car ’ . |
| 22 | It was picked up after a couple of rings . |
| 23 | I was picked up by a taxi driver once and we were going along and he said , ‘ Oh , I know that voice — oh , do n't tell me — you 're Jeremy Pascal , are n't you ? ’ |
| 24 | He was picked up by a rescue boat , but onlookers say THAT craft was then involved in a second accident . |
| 25 | The Range Rover came into Belfast and was picked up by an army escort of two personnel-carriers on the outskirts . |
| 26 | The little house , its walls cosily cluttered with treasures of old photos and watercolours was perched up on a hill directly above the old pier , its verandah giving a Raj-like quality and view on life . |
| 27 | He was wound up like a spring , furiously angry , unable to keep still or to prevent himself from fidgeting . |
| 28 | ‘ She was hung up with a rope round her neck . |
| 29 | She was wearing a jade green velour ‘ leisure suit ’ and her blonde hair was twisted up in a knot on top of her head . |
| 30 | The trilobite eye was of a compound type , and each lens was made up of a calcite crystal . |