Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] up on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sub-contracting works fine most of the time but if you want something done urgently and the typesetter is broken or tied up on a job for its owner then guess who 's work is going to have to wait . |
| 2 | The lake birds appeared to be healthy enough , but they were always scrounging food from the tourists and picking over the debris that washed up on the lake shore . |
| 3 | Their advice should probably have been to go down the High Street to a large newsagents and buy one or more magazines devoted to the PC and read up on the subject . |
| 4 | I am not suggesting that all such considerations are rationally run through and weighed up on every occasion ; they are too familiar to require it . |
| 5 | He passed out , and woke up on the ground having fallen 1800 feet into a fir tree and five feet of snow . |
| 6 | She must have got clearance at Gravesend and sailed up on the ebb . |
| 7 | The names of the gold winners were not known until the judges ' scores , which had been sealed , were opened and added up on the night . |
| 8 | Did you know it 's a replica of one of the charms said to be over a thousand years old and dug up on the island of Bornholm ? ’ |
| 9 | He was a Protestant mercenary from Moravia who foresaw Habsburg victory and joined up on the side of the emperor . |
| 10 | I had not seen Otley for some time and climbed up on the wall for a better view . |
| 11 | Gilly dragged a heavy stuffed chair backward to the shelf and climbed up on the very top of its back . |
| 12 | They were prints from some medieval Book of Hours that William had had framed and stuck up on the walls . |
| 13 | No pin-ups , just pictures cut from magazines and stuck up on the wall in a kind of patchwork : pictures of lambs and cats and small puppies with ribbons round their necks , country cottages and the tropical beaches that went with advertisements for white rum , whose colours could n't possibly be real . |
| 14 | The incident of the Karin B , a ship carrying toxic wastes from Europe , illegally imported to Nigeria , which could not find a home and landed up on the south coast of England in the summer of 1987 , demonstrated that millions of tonnes of highly toxic waste are being shipped around the globe . |
| 15 | Then she lit a cigarette and curled up on the window-seat . |
| 16 | They took the brandy into the sitting room and lit the gas fire and curled up on the sofa . |
| 17 | Locative came ashore later , and broke up on the South Donegal coast . |
| 18 | I helped with the cows and the chickens , and went up on the hills with Mr Parks and his dog to look at the sheep . |
| 19 | Many young people like myself who were born and grew up on the flat albeit slightly rolling prairies , sometimes feel a yearning for the mountains and the sea , and I was no exception . |
| 20 | Last season , United 's Carl Bradshaw was caught in confrontation with Chelsea 's Vinnie at Stamford Bridge by a camera behind the goal and ended up on a disrepute charge , even though the match officials missed the incident . |
| 21 | He tried to slap Killion on the shoulder and missed , and ended up on the floor . |
| 22 | ‘ There is only one way to decide , ’ he said , and jumped up on the table , making Robertson flinch . |
| 23 | Harold gave a murderous cry of rage and jumped up on the stone , aiming the knife straight at the holy old blatherer . |
| 24 | ‘ When the show started everybody jumped on it and picked up on the things that were n't working . |
| 25 | The old cheese presses which had lain dusty in the stable loft were brought down with difficulty on account of their immense weight and set up on the flagged floor . |
| 26 | He let his hand wander a little , and got it petulantly pushed away as she heaved herself out of the clutches of the chesterfield 's upholstery , and sat up on the edge of it . |
| 27 | The buses crawling through the gates seem empty , but curled up on the seats , on the floor are the recruits , some with plastic bags over their heads , others muffled incognito in scarves . |
| 28 | The nut was not , however , found in situ , but washed up on the loch shore . |