Example sentences of "[verb] up on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solid , castellated , and colonnaded for much of its length , it suddenly takes off into a free-flowing fantasy of spires and spirelets , as if two different architects ' designs had got mixed up on the drawing-board . |
| 2 | A light van drew up on the wharf , and a man got out and dropped a large quantity of cardboard boxes over the side of the wharf onto the deck . |
| 3 | Beyond the moored boats and the fire we drew up on the bank for the night . |
| 4 | Crossing the last barrier , a narrow but fast-flowing river , the rebel army drew up on the plain of Samugarh a few miles from Agra . |
| 5 | Some caterpillars possess the markings of small venomous snakes and , when approached too closely , will rear up on the branch and wave their fake snake-heads at the attacker . |
| 6 | As the cars lined up on the grid , Andretti on pole , Hunt alongside him , Pete Lyons wrote a wonderful paragraph which said it all : the mechanics drilling holes in Hunt 's visor so that he could see in the mist . |
| 7 | We lined up on the foredeck to give the traditional three cheers for her Majesty at the appropriate moment . |
| 8 | And basically they managed to jump up on the bed unlike yesterday morning where pretended she could n't get up on the bed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Leonora chose a brightly coloured paperback novel about the Crusades , and went over to the fireplace to curl up on the sofa . |
| 11 | Oh certainly , certainly , erm boys grow up on the whole fairly secure in the knowledge that they have both work cells , occupational cells and also that they 'll be able to have families . |
| 12 | We 'll tie up on the island and stretch our legs a bit . |
| 13 | Jasper knelt up on the seats with the rest of them to observe out of the window their progress to Kensington High Street . |
| 14 | She gripped the edge of the window sill , seemed to strain up on the window across the small of her back . |
| 15 | Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine . |
| 16 | Die Grünen has been described by Petra Kelly as an ‘ anti-party party ’ , and getting into bed with them might be a guarantee of ending up on the floor . |
| 17 | FLOORS Wherever there is water or liquid , there is the danger of it ending up on the floor and causing you to slip . |
| 18 | We try to tackle the problem at all ends — to prevent young people ending up on the streets , to provide a roof over their heads , and to search for long-term solutions . |
| 19 | As a result , they feel themselves not only homeless but in a total existential crisis — ending up on the dossers circuit removes the last residues of respectability . |
| 20 | So , you 'll be ending up on the breadline worse than ever |
| 21 | I know you see which side my fence is buttered , and if I can bring to football the organisational skills that have made me such a big fish in retailing , then Athletico Whaddon need have no fear of ending up on the slab . |
| 22 | There is quite a history of individual countries backing a particular group , taking a particular line , and it all ending up on the battlefield . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Space for a raiding party was limited , and jolting across the sand perched up on the back was extremely uncomfortable . |
| 25 | There was absolutely no point in having two hundred people perched up on the road looking down on the top of a marquee . |
| 26 | perched up on the roof surrounded by |
| 27 | Police numbers had doubled , two ambulances had somehow squeezed up on the hill , and the drivers and passengers were out of their Glories , milling around in confusion . |
| 28 | All the computers were cracking up on the factory floor this morning . ’ |
| 29 | Right if you have a look at what has come up on the screen , on the screen . |
| 30 | You can get it spaced up on the screen , and you can print it out . |