Example sentences of "was [verb] up [prep] the " 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 | At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school . |
| 5 | Elizabeth was propped up on the pillows , with the baby lying in the cradle by the bed . |
| 6 | She was propped up on the sofa near her open window which commanded an excellent view of the whole of Canons ' Court . |
| 7 | A large handwritten notice was propped up by the door — Bürge bleibt hier ( guarantors ' seats here ) — with an arrow pointing that way . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ This was propped up against the body , on the front doorstep . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She wandered across the laboratory to where it was propped up against the wall . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The hour of the evening consultation was posted up on the doctor 's door as being 6 p.m ; no final time was mentioned . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Charles could see at first-hand the tension that was building up in the vast depressing wastelands of the inner cities , where young people had no work , no ambition , no feeling of belonging , no pride in their surroundings — nothing , in fact , to get out of bed for in the mornings . |
| 17 | Nervous pressure was building up in the United team when Irwin put a 64th-minute corner kick deep into the heart of the Southampton penalty area . |
| 18 | But all that was happening was , the overflow pipe from the Koi quarters was partially blocked : this meant that an abnormally high head of water was building up in the main pool , bringing the level above the sealed junction between liner and blockwork . |
| 19 | Now a mile or two ahead , we could see a white line where the swell was crashing up on the fringing reef . |
| 20 | peace was patched up on the basis of the status quo but military victory made it impossible to destroy the new Bulgarian union . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He was drawing up outside the hall when he thought of Graham Young . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was gazing up at the stars , probably communing with the Mother Ship and receiving new instructions . |
| 25 | DeVore was pressed up against the wall , Gesell 's knife at his throat . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The fight was broken up by the housemaster , whose ears had been open in anticipation for some days . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |