Example sentences of "[to-vb] up on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to marry , but just to meet up on a regular basis and do nice things together such as walks , long discussions about books and music , that sort of thing . |
| 2 | It is rare for a dog to jump up on the third occasion . |
| 3 | And basically they managed to jump up on the bed unlike yesterday morning where pretended she could n't get up on the bed . |
| 4 | There was a different rug on the floor but without the fire on it 's much warmer to curl up on a human . |
| 5 | ’ I 'm a loner who likes to curl up on a sofa with a good book , ’ she says . |
| 6 | He says Wilfrd Thesiger 's idea of a nice night is to curl up on a rock and eat some fresh camel 's milk . |
| 7 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 8 | Leonora chose a brightly coloured paperback novel about the Crusades , and went over to the fireplace to curl up on the sofa . |
| 9 | She gripped the edge of the window sill , seemed to strain up on the window across the small of her back . |
| 10 | Cicely Hamilton commented in the course of a debate with G. K. Chesterton at Queen 's Hall in 1919 : ‘ Do you suppose that forty or fifty years ago a woman would have dared to stand up on a platform and say , without the slightest shame , that she was over thirty and unmarried ? |
| 11 | HP 's software effort for the new servers included endorsement from a veritable who's-who of mainframe software houses , all eager to stand up on the platform and say that their customers were queueing up to leave the IBM mainframe world behind . |
| 12 | He wanted to roar out James 's name , his own name , to scream for help , he tried to pull up on the sill but his fingers scrabbled uselessly and he dropped back . |
| 13 | He says that they were taught how to creep up on an enemy — quite interesting . |
| 14 | It is impossible to creep up on the duck , because its 360 degree vision takes in the slightest movement anywhere around it . |
| 15 | It 's not something the average student would expect to come up on the sylabus and Katharine 's still recovering from the shock . |
| 16 | Thus all rations for the men at the front had to come up on the backs of other men . |
| 17 | The employer said it had been attempting to tighten up on the very widespread practice of employees going for tea immediately after clocking on . |
| 18 | In the end she made the decision to combine Episodes Three and Four together , losing one whole episode entirely to tighten up on the drama . |
| 19 | The regional affairs commissioner , Bruce Millan , also announced intentions to tighten up on the EC 's additionality principle — the rule that EC spending must be additional to planned national government spending . |
| 20 | The rental sector meanwhile provides — along with all the box-office successes which nowadays transfer to tape within a few months and probably need no further introduction — the chance to catch up on a variety of ( often more deserving ) movies which have been less widely seen in cinemas here . |
| 21 | Kylie admits that the tour of the chic boutiques in Paris , London and New York gave the sisters a chance to catch up on a lot of the times they had missed when the demands of television companies just had to take priority over family . |
| 22 | I do have to admit , though , that when I 'm working away from home it 's not a case of going out on the town — but going straight to bed to catch up on a good night 's sleep . |
| 23 | At such moments he knew that he loved Frances , and he could feel the seductions of a conventional marriage , of meals such as this happening every Sunday , of knowing each other 's daily news , not always having to catch up on a few months ' worth of events . |
| 24 | I proceeded to catch up on the last ten years of what everyone had been doing . |
| 25 | With the paperwork finished , it 's across to the Mess for a cup of tea and to catch up on the rest of the news . |
| 26 | John McLeish was in his office , Saturday or no Saturday , telling himself he needed to catch up on the paperwork . |
| 27 | She decided to go back to work — but first wanted to catch up on the qualifications she 'd missed out on . |
| 28 | ‘ Now that we only have the one line , we want to catch up on the backlog of maintenance and repairs . |
| 29 | As Glisseuse emerged from the Swale channel at the Queenborough end , she was picked up by Vigilant and followed to the upper reaches of the Medway while Venturous made all speed round the outside of Sheppey to catch up on the operation which was now well under control . |
| 30 | It will also provide a ‘ dip in service ’ for those who wish to catch up on the headlines , the business needs , the travel , the weather and other key information each hour . |