Example sentences of "was [vb pp] up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She was propped up on the sofa near her open window which commanded an excellent view of the whole of Canons ' Court . |
| 3 | A large handwritten notice was propped up by the door — Bürge bleibt hier ( guarantors ' seats here ) — with an arrow pointing that way . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She wandered across the laboratory to where it was propped up against the wall . |
| 7 | ‘ This was propped up against the body , on the front doorstep . ’ |
| 8 | The hour of the evening consultation was posted up on the doctor 's door as being 6 p.m ; no final time was mentioned . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | peace was patched up on the basis of the status quo but military victory made it impossible to destroy the new Bulgarian union . |
| 11 | DeVore was pressed up against the wall , Gesell 's knife at his throat . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The fight was broken up by the housemaster , whose ears had been open in anticipation for some days . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was caught up at the neck into a huge thick collar of silver fur . |
| 18 | Waller 's double-glazing business was caught up in the plague when hooligans set his small factory on fire . |
| 19 | Now there is a whole ocean between John and me , Ianthe thought , but soon she was caught up in the bustle of landing . |
| 20 | He , too , was caught up in the excitement for jazz and with Bobby and other students went down to the Red Barn at Barnehurst , a half-hour run from Charing Cross , to hear George Webb 's Dixielanders , the band that pioneered the New Orleans revival in Britain . |
| 21 | I was caught up in the Truby King Mothercraft doctrine of 1935 … |
| 22 | Nicholson was caught up in the aftermath and became Hollywood 's hottest property to emerge for two decades . |
| 23 | In 1979 as a hospital worker , she was caught up in the Winter of Discontent . |
| 24 | Despite the fact that he was personally on only the periphery of the Polanski affair , he was caught up in the backwash , in the resultant discussion of the wider issues of the counter-culture , and it was in this category that the critics had firmly placed their new star as the analysis of his role in Easy Rider continued through the run-up to the Oscar presentations and beyond . |
| 25 | Although he admits there were ‘ times it felt like farce — chasing a guy through the woods who was chasing the ghost of his dead father ’ , Bradley nevertheless says there were moments when he was caught up in the atmosphere . |
| 26 | A railway worker , also making his way home , was caught up in the riot and , as a result of baton blows , was deafened in one ear and had to have sixteen stitches to his head . |
| 27 | The Southampton defender was caught up in the passion of Boro 's FA Cup-tie at Portsmouth last week . |
| 28 | She was caught up in the drama of a big story . |
| 29 | The cage was lifted up by the crane and stopped when we were 160 feet above the ground . |
| 30 | The flows are covered with large , high wrinkles and ridges , concentric with the edges of the flow , where the stiff surface layer was crinkled up by the pressure of more material arriving from behind — rather like a pahoehoe surface on a basalt lava , but on a much bigger scale . |