1 An empty sack cannot stand upright. 

2 An empty bad cannot stand upright. 

3 Better be upright and want, than wicked and have abundance. 

4 An upright judge has more regard to justice than to men. 

5 He is upright in his dealings.

6 Gradually raise your body into an upright position.

7 He stood in an upright position.

8 Slowly the boat came upright.

9 The nursery teacher made the children sit bolt upright.

10 An upright man is respectable.

11 Helen sat upright in her chair.

12 She sat upright in bed.

13 He managed to pull himself upright.

14 These upright stones are the vestiges of some ancient religion.

15 Please return your seat to an upright position and fasten your belt.

16 The chimpanzee stood upright and grasped the bars of its cage.

17 He was sitting upright in his hospital bed,[] propped up by pillows.

18 He was an upright and noble man who was always willing to help in any way he could.

19 Pulling himself upright, he squared his shoulders.

20 He struggled hard to keep the boat upright.

21 The flag pole wouldn't stay upright.

22 Polly jerked upright, wild-eyed and blinking.

23 He pulled himself upright and faced me.

24 Cautiously, he moved himself into an upright position.

25 Put the bottle upright, not on its side.

26 With a swift movement, Matthew Jerrold sat upright.

27 She held herself rigidly upright.

28 She was sitting upright in her chair.

29 She sat upright, her body rigid with fear.

30 Keep the bottles in an upright position.

1 He is upright in his dealings.

2 Gradually raise your body into an upright position.

3 He stood in an upright position.

4 Slowly the boat came upright.

5 The nursery teacher made the children sit bolt upright.

6 An upright man is respectable.

7 Helen sat upright in her chair.

8 She sat upright in bed.

9 He managed to pull himself upright.

10 These upright stones are the vestiges of some ancient religion.

11 Please return your seat to an upright position and fasten your belt.

12 The chimpanzee stood upright and grasped the bars of its cage.

13 He was sitting upright in his hospital bed, propped up by pillows.

14 He was an upright and noble man who was always willing to help in any way he could.

31 Sit in a relaxed upright posture.

32 Gradually elevate the patient into an upright position.

33 Moira sat stiffly upright in her straight-backed chair.

34 The cross-piece is mortised into the upright post.

35 He made the children sit bolt upright.

36 He was a good honest upright man.

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37 Jerrold pulled himself upright on the bed.

38 The man is very upright.

39 He moved into an upright position.

40 Keep the box in an upright position.

41 Make sure the container remains in an upright position.

42 He was handsome, upright and chivalrous.

43 She jerked upright in surprise.

44 The old lady was sitting upright in her chair, stiff as a poker.

45 Suddenly she sat bolt upright as if something had startled her.

46 The ball bounced off the left upright of the goal.

47 In the film she was cast as a hardworking upright middleaged woman.

48 He was sitting bolt upright on his chair, looking very tense.

49 He sat bolt upright, hands folded in front of him.

50 Insert Tab A into Slot A and glue, before standing the model upright.

51 She sat bolt upright in the back seat during the whole journey.

52 Katie was still awake, sitting bolt upright staring at the television.

53 Your seat should be in the upright position when the plane is landing.

54 The roof was so low I could not stand upright.

55 Keep the bottle upright.

56 He stood himself upright.

57 Keeping him upright was no easy task , for he was practically a deadweight.

58 Her mother was sitting bolt upright, scrunching her white cotton gloves into a ball.

59 She behaved as any upright citizen would have under the circumstances.

60 When I pushed his door open, Trevor was sitting bolt upright in bed.

61 A drunk was standing in the middle of the street, swaying uncertainly and trying hard to stay upright.

62 He was sitting on an upright chair beside his bed, reading.

63 When she heard the news, she jerked upright in surprise.

64 He jerked upright when the phone rang.

65 Power can not ride on an upright back.

66 Corpses were carried along,[] standing upright.

67 There was an upright piano and a piano bench.

68 It is a pleasure to stand upright again.

69 He holds his ink stick upright.

70 He stood bolt upright, like a soldier.

71 Upright bassist Kevin Pate also acknowledges his paternal influences.

72 Still half concussed, Delaney rolled upright and staggered.

73 He staggered as I clambered on, but stayed upright.

74 She sat bolt upright, aches and pains quite forgotten.

75 He sat upright, leaving the gun on the floorboards.

76 The room contained two hard chairs, a desk and an upright piano.

77 With the breath sucked out of her lungs, she could barely stand upright in the face of the gusts.

78 The spears were collected and stacked upright in the prow, inside a metal ring attached to the swan's head.

79 A small lamp was mounted on an upright stanchion near the head of each staircase.

80 But he leapt through the staggering sharpness of it and achieved an upright position.

81 The tamales are placed, standing upright, on a steamer rack in an enormous kettle.

82 Chained in an upright stance for weeks on end, iron collars about their necks, with no hope of reprieve.

83 She had woken then, jerking bolt upright, her heart pounding against her ribs.

84 Steel guy wires hold it upright; at various elevations strobe lights flash a warning to aircraft -- a slow arterial pulse.

85 If knocked over, you stood upright again, at attention, and took the punishment until the staff tired of it.

86 Examples with stone foundations are also known at Bourton-on-the-Water and Ashton, the latter with unusual upright limestone slabs.

87 She stands upright in her long white cotton nightgown from Laura Ashley, scratches her bottom through the cambric, and yawns.

88 He stood on the moonlit grass, swaying slightly, holding himself upright but still fast asleep.

89 Keeping your body upright and tummy pulled in tight, draw the raised leg across the body, leading with the ankle.

90 New plants arise vegetatively from dormant buds on the short upright rhizome of the main root.

91 She took him to a pachinko parlor, a long narrow room full of people pressed against upright machines.

92 After one treatment the fish has made rapid progress and is now able to swim upright.

93 Barbell press Stand upright, holding the bar at shoulder height in front of your chest with your palms facing outwards.

94 The birch forests of Siberia, so upright, so elegant in autumn, had been broken by this winter campaign.

95 Mom stands upright, her skis over her shoulder, a pair of climbing skins wrapped jauntily about her waist.

96 Aspirate nasogastric tube if indicated. 6 Once conscious gradually elevate patient to upright position.

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97 She sat firmly on one of the upright chairs and spoke about the breeding predicament of her mare.

98 He sat bolt upright and kept his eyes on the table in front of him.

99 The upright posture of the owl is very different from the gull.

100 It dropped fast, keeping its upright stance at first, than turning as if emptying itself, and the men fell out.

101 Here you see a Pleistocene vision, life as it must have looked before humans stepped upright on to the savannah.

102 The main picture shows them sitting bolt upright with their hands clenched together in their laps.

103 Extend your arms Keep them well down the boom to get the rig as upright as possible. 3.

104 All were completely enveloped in a sea of mud and water upon touchdown, but fortunately remained upright.

105 She shot upright, clutching her head as it throbbed in protest at her sudden move.

106 Symptoms will start to show shortly - affected plants stand out as more upright types, with erect and narrow leaf stalks.

107 Elfed, a sober and upright man who was to become unfairly the sounding board for Richard's first rebellions.

108 Now he toppled over backward with the weapon stuck upright in his throat.

109 Suddenly, Urquhart stood bolt upright, not twenty yards in front of the deer which froze in confusion.

110 She shot bolt upright, pulse racing, mouth dry, and then she remembered the owls.

111 Being mostly upright, plants can conceal filter tubes, airlines, heater wires and other hardware.

112 Haddad muttered and set him upright before he called a cab.

113 Only the tightly clenched line of her jawbone revealed the enormous effort it was taking her just to stand upright.

114 When Ruth went into the house Hester was sitting on an upright chair by the table, peeling potatoes.

115 Everyone looks so brisk in fresh suits of upright postures, so stiff and tense their buds won't open.

116 Suddenly I sit bolt upright, feeling a familiar stab of panic that can mean only one thing: the videos!

117 The big white creaks upright and stands flexing his hands.

118 He signalled us to keep still as he stood upright, tightening the grip on his spear.

119 Hourly frequency and mean duration of reflux episodes in the upright and supine period were also calculated in each patient.

120 She isn't particularly tall, but her upright posture gives an illusion of height.

121 Ward makes omelettes in the small not quite upright kitchen before she goes to work.

122 His knees were wobbling as if they might collapse under the strain of holding his body upright.

123 The boiler was like an upright wooden barrel banded with copper.

124 The seedlings, upright as bishops, are as free-fruiting and close-branched as you could wish for.

125 An upright piano stood against one wall, a row of framed photographs on top of it.

126 You do not sit upright on the living room couch wrapped in a blanket,[] staring into oblivion.

127 Jean was sitting upright in her chair, the box of medical records on her lap as usual.

128 I stumbled back and sat down heavily on the plinth, then staggered upright and pulled my cords back up.

129 She maintains a studiously upright posture as she talks, yet her voice is gentle, her expression open and kindly.

130 Simon was sitting in the corridor outside the door to Jason's room, heartily asleep in an uncomfortable upright chair.

131 I walked across her line of vision and she sat bolt upright in annoyance.

132 For the tall man, the lie should be one or two degrees more upright.

133 Here were the upright golden flames of the poplars lining the road, and the willows yellowing down by the creek.

134 Hotspur sat bolt upright in the saddle, his eyes narrowed on the hurtling horsemen, and never moved a hand.

135 But when the others sat for the Scripture readings, Ray McGovern remained upright in their midst, provoking wariness and speculation.

136 On top of this was a solid brick monument with an upright stone.

137 The upper edge of the shoulder pocket overhung the lower edge, more appropriate for an upright stance.

138 On a windy day, guy ropes were needed to hold the flat scenery upright.

139 She felt as though an invisible line through her backbone held her upright.

140 I originally studied classical cello from age seven until I was fourteen, then moved to the upright bass.

141 I also missed my footing and went plunging forward, only by luck managing to keep myself upright.

142 At time it feels like a matter of survival against the elements, keeping your boat upright in a strong breeze.

143 It went on a line into the stands and hit the same upright girder.

144 It ploughed off the motorway, behind the motorway bridge crash barrier, and into the concrete upright.

145 As I forlornly stood it upright on the table, Tam settled down opposite me.

146 There was only one candle in place, stuck upright like a pale wax finger, and this had never been lit.

147 He pushed himself upright, shaking his head to make the wheeling stars go away.

148 It tripped on a book and almost went flying, but it just succeeded in remaining upright.

149 They are held together, poised upright like a pencil standing on its point, by the recursive dynamics of coevolution.

150 It stood upright, balancing on its head against a background of indigo blue.

151 As he starts to crumple at my feet, I grab the front of his shirt and drag him upright.

152 All the soil does is hold the plants upright, while the crop is fed with artificial fertilizers.

153 He runs too upright, relies too much on sheer strength instead of evading defenders, and so takes too many hits.

154 I clutch at his arm, and he holds me, and does not let me go when I am upright.

155 An upright posture in bed or chair also aids lung expansion.

156 She sat bolt upright; her features were strong, her manna forthright[Sentence dictionary], even aggressive.

157 The young bird has to perch upright on the rim while it grows its feathers.

158 The going was steep and treacherously slick in places, and Paige had all her concentration centred on staying upright.

159 McLeish looked past the boy to see Catherine Crane, colour returned, seated on an upright chair, drinking tea.

160 He stood upright on the driver's seat, staring up into the clouds.

161 There was an upright piano in the far corner with a row of framed photographs on top.

162 Now it was lit luridly in green and the puppet in the white ballet dress was standing upright facing them.

163 She sat bolt upright in the back seat during the hour long journey, some of which was on a motorway.

164 She pushed a button, cranking the bed to a more upright position.

165 The pile drivers stood idle in the darkness, gray silhouettes like horses sleeping upright in a field.

166 Every tree is unique, with shapes that evoke a person standing upright with raised arms.

167 Her rump burned as though a bonfire had been lit under it, and she realised she was standing upright.

168 Between the windows, in the cool shade, his uncle sat upright in a chair, asleep.

169 Each time I took a step, I sank to the earth and then struggled upright again.

170 I remained still and upright, facing into the room, an accusing figure in a nightdress.

171 We found her sitting bolt upright in bed with all the lights on.

172 A man stood, rakish and upright, and stared at the fences.

173 The villain has to die repentant before the young lady can marry the upright engineer.

174 Please replace your tray and return your seat to an upright position for landing.

175 When at last she was able to stand upright in safety, her knees buckled and her body was drenched with sweat.

176 He wedged the knife upright in the cutlery drawer while jamming it shut with one knee.

177 It consists of an upright cylinder containing a twelve-inch piston with rod two and a half inches in diameter.

178 I eased into an upright position, ducking back out of sight until I heard him start the car and pull away.

179 They pulled him upright and walked him into a small kitchenette next to the Murphy bed.

180 Stabler had three chances to put West Hartlepool ahead with penalty kicks but failed, though one struck an upright.

181 The taller stances, in which the practitioner adopts an almost upright position, are fast but weak.

182 If you are trying to keep the balance then the seat is upright with the diaphragm taut.

183 Frank pulled me upright and threw my clothes at me.

184 She sat or perched on an upright chair smiling like an angel just dropped from the skies.

185 He described the physique of the two men he had seen upright: Zack and the gunman.

186 Make Model Cylinder Upright 3-in-1 4 How old is your cleaner?

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187 Wings rather short and narrow, legs set well back, giving upright stance at rest.

188 A fabulous drive from Knell cannoned back off the Cliftonville upright from fully 25 yards - and the visitors breathed again.

189 Upright at opposite ends of a turbulent field, they point woodenly in the direction of hope.

190 Dickensian child victims grow into upright citizens if they grow up at all.

191 I was sitting upright in a pine coffin high on a marble pedestal and wearing a delicate silk gown of pure white.

192 Those who already sail have an exciting time trying to stay upright when it's really blowing.

193 In its upright form it represents the vertical thrust of life across sedimentary layers of earthly matter.

194 Then his outline moved upright, a jarring elastic shape like cartoon smoke gone mad.

195 I said evenly, keeping my gaze level and steady and my posture perpendicular and upright.

196 So was the upright piano, that is, it would be when I finished paying for it.

197 Nurse Bells had propped him upright and he looked alert and interested.

198 He stuck the candle upright in a socket then sat and gazed at the flame, letting it mesmerize him into memory.

199 Sharpe grabbed a handful of his mare's mane to haul himself back upright.

200 Emily shook back a stray curl of hair and held herself upright, she must stop feeling sorry for herself.

201 Made of upright panels, they are mounted in attractive solid beech wood frames giving a beautiful surround to samples on pictures.

202 Panic-stricken, he clutched at the loose earth at the sides of the pit and pulled himself to an upright position.

203 Several columns among the ruins still defiantly upright.

204 Several columns among the ruins still stood defiantly upright.

205 The war memorial stands upright in the square.

206 Anything in a leaning position is not upright.

207 Any person waking from a nightmare will sit upright and pant hard.

208 He is a very upright man , abhorring evil as a deadly foe.

209 Charlotte stood upright and peeped through a window in the brick wall.

210 Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant.

211 Punctuation, then, is a civic prop , a pillar that holds society upright.

212 How could the upright man be anything but self - centred?

213 Flora restored the heavy swivel chair to its upright position.