Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the Arctic , summer is just past its peak , with the pack ice as far north as it is likely to be , although in a month the first skin of new ice will tinkle and shimmer as it is broken up by the morning breeze . |
| 2 | The stage is tilted and is propped up by the coffins of Inquisition victims . |
| 3 | and the pelmet is propped up by the bookcase . |
| 4 | This bloke is propped up in the corner of the cab , and blood all over the place . |
| 5 | Kylie 's tucked up in the back seat , her mum 's alongside , and she 's ready to complete the last day 's shooting on the £10 million film The Delinquents . |
| 6 | The table top is tipped up into the picture plane more sharply even than in a painting by Cézanne . |
| 7 | The knot of hair at the back of the neck is , in some of the paintings , incorporated in an almost full-face view , and the back of the shoulder is tipped up into the picture plane . |
| 8 | The Government 's invited bids to save the Vulcan , but no one 's come up with the money needed to give it the necessary overhaul . |
| 9 | Or else , because one is lifted up in the air , to be unsettled and therefore restless , anxious , tense and doubtful . |
| 10 | It 's mixed up with the levy on Copts , apparently . ’ |
| 11 | This still exists in a limited form in relation both to companies and to individuals , in that where a person is adjudged bankrupt or a company is wound up by the court , dispositions of property made by the debtor or the company after a prescribed date , usually the date of the presentation of the petition for a bankruptcy order or a winding up order , are void unless the court otherwise orders : sections 127 and 284 . |
| 12 | In most minds that entertain thoughts on either subject , the SSC is mixed up with the idea of the Higgs particle . |
| 13 | As the hands go down to the floor , the right knee is cocked up near the right shoulder . |
| 14 | The individual is caught up in the personalising/objectifying dialectic as in life , and because the communication is between participants , the normal interaction of a social context is also reflected . |
| 15 | The story centres on Giorgio , a successful eye-surgeon working in Paris and his alter egos : his much younger brother Piero , who is caught up in the obscure ‘ manoeuvres ’ going on in Sicily ( it will turn out that he has sabotaged an American helicopter and is on the run ) , and Charles , a 12-year-old boy who is at the centre of the whole story . |
| 16 | The tree is caught up in the constellations . |
| 17 | He is caught up in the communal excitement , without the prospect of release that performance gives . |
| 18 | So there is evidence that the immune system is caught up in the pathological process , but whether it 's truly an auto-immune disease is not so clear . |
| 19 | The tag is picked up at the end of a track and the synonym will also , on average , be at or near the end of a track , not in the middle . |
| 20 | Subtle shades of beige from the Crown Expressions range have been ragged to cleverly break up the colour which is picked up in the marble fireplace , pale loose cotton covers and unbleached cotton curtains . |
| 21 | Similarly it seems unlikely that the reader will bother to construct a three-dimensional , photographic representation of ‘ the baby ’ which cries in the first sentence and which is picked up in the second sentence . |
| 22 | As the ribber needle moves back , the stitch on it comes over the latch of the ribber needle and is picked up by the transfer needle . |
| 23 | The paint is picked up by the texture of the paper and the previous layers of paint . |
| 24 | Daily maintenance consists merely of giving the walls and floor of the pond a once-over with a soft-bristled broom , to keep down blanketweed : suspended matter is then whisked away to both filters , and what they miss is picked up by the skimmer . |
| 25 | There is no mistaking the physical menace in the soft but grinding discord which announces Balstrode 's " Look , the storm cone " , or the thrill of fear in his fugue theme " Now the flood tide " [ 7 ] , with its opening minor second , which is picked up by the entire chorus and worked into one of those overwhelming Verdian ensembles which climax the first scene of each act . |
| 26 | Films such as The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ) , where a psychologist 's efforts to reform the mugger he 's picked up off the street are subverted by his own drives and the desires of his wife , The Criminal ( 1960 , The Concrete Jungle in US ) , in which Stanley Baker plays a loner trapped between the violent prison system and the criminal underworld , or The Servant ( 1963 ) , in which butler is pitched against master , focus on tensions in British society much more interesting than anything opened up by Anderson 's contemporaries . |
| 27 | ‘ The place is full most o' the time , an' since the trade 's picked up at the docks there 's more carmen comin' in all times o' the day while they 're waitin' in the rank . |
| 28 | The reaction is speeded up by the presence of enzymes , hence the name enzymic browning . |
| 29 | What has to be opened up is the unsupervised way in which internationally and nationally the sum of all our communications is sucked up into the electronic vacuum cleaner that is Cheltenham |
| 30 | A film recorder works by taking three exposures of the image which is built up inside the box on a small high resolution monochrome CRT . |