Example sentences of "[adv] up on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he said well come on then we 're stuck halfway up on the kerb here . |
| 2 | Each triangular guyline is attached at two points halfway up on the pole sleeve 18in apart . |
| 3 | On the night I turned up in my red leotard and dippy skirt with a heavier than usual coat of paint on , to find , to my horror , that Cleo Roccas of Kenny Everett fame and a young lady much featured on Page 3 , called Gilly , I think , were already up on the stage , surrounded by a sixty-strong swarm of Street of Shame photographers , all climbing up each other 's anoraks and screaming ‘ Lean forward , Cleo — a bit further , give us a smile , lick your lips , Gilly — lovely , lovely — hitch that skirt up a bit … ’ |
| 4 | Built in Luton at IBC and with a range of European Vauxhall and Opel engines that take local content to 80 per cent , they 'll be in about half of Vauxhall 's dealers with prices just up on the Suzuki Vitara for the Sport and just below the Isuzu Trooper and old Shogun for the five-door Across Europe , GM is optimistic it can sell 40,000 and has capacity for another 10,000 should Europe 's fastest-growing market segment require it . |
| 5 | He 's still up on the roof then . |
| 6 | It was usually up on a Tuesday was n't it ? |
| 7 | We hope that this year , whether or not the snow situation improves , the Verbier Ski School will revise their arrangements and meet pupils directly up on the slopes , but if not , then any family going to Verbier should be warned of the timewasting and difficulties which arise if the arrangements are left as they were last year . |
| 8 | You could also erm , start to recognize the benefit of the rural sector , and one reason why they were discriminating , L D Cs tended to want to ignore that and sort of shun it , because it 's not sort of a glamorous image they were trying to hope for in the urban sector , and , so , if they did help them , say give them units , like the repair men , units to work in , and they put them in really totally crappy accommodation , and up not where you need it , and not where people pass by with their motors and things , they , they 'd put them somewhere up on a hill , overlooking a city , so erm , to encourage the informal sector by erm , sort of on a par with the formal sector because erm , their inter- reacting , inter-relating now , like they 're providing cheap inputs for the formal industries and , and the formal industries are pro providing clientele all for the informal sector , and so it 's all inter-linked and , and it 's there now . |
| 9 | Next time you get stopped it will come right up on the computer . |
| 10 | ‘ It was Lying right up on the shoal . ’ |
| 11 | right up on the roof . |
| 12 | Is that right up on the screen there , conscious ? |
| 13 | It 's nearly up on the fence ! |
| 14 | He soon comes into my old room cos he 's gon na be straight up on the bed , right . |
| 15 | and I 've we 've taken the the old settee down to Carrie 's and moved the two seater and the armchair down this end and they flew in tonight straight up on the sofa , I said to it 's gon na be tough for a week or so but they 've got ta get used to staying on the floor , I 'm not having them on the furniture all the time cos they just absolutely ruin it ! |
| 16 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 17 | Far up on the left , above the inn and the cottage row , two other figures moved , blue and white , not haymakers — Jean Bruce and young Donald , walking hand in hand amongst the bents of a neglected field at the furthest point of the McCullochs ' holding . |
| 18 | I was afraid you could run into our fire if you got too far up on the slope . ’ |
| 19 | The £300.24 figure is an increase of £24.76 per person or around 9pc on the present level , and well up on the Government 's estimate of £257 . |
| 20 | It was noted in the Faroes ( where the oystercatcher is the national bird ) , in Scotland , where the birds began to penetrate inland up the river valleys , and in Shetland , where they forsook the shingle beaches and moved to fields and even up on the heather hills . |
| 21 | It sways from side to side with people standing , sitting , even up on the roof . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ If there is no room here , there is plenty up on the hill , and where do you think I would like to be ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Old Mel , a gipsy who years ago up on the Ridgery was nearly burned as a witch . ’ |
| 24 | Put it instead at the back of a base cabinet or high up on a wall cabinet , or in the space , if there is one , between wall cabinets and ceiling which you can always turn into a second tier of cabinets by adding fronts to match your other units . |
| 25 | He brushed past it and ran stooping round the corner of the L where the only light was fixed high up on a wall . |
| 26 | High up on a ledge above a window , she found what she knew Billy Gorman would never give her : the keys to the gun room at Riverstown . |
| 27 | From Esterençuby you can press onwards and upwards , towards the frontier , and then either branch right , back into the complex of mountain roads to the west that would take you eventually down again to Arnéguy , or else left , along a narrow , lonely , but not totally nerve-racking road which climbs high up on the north flank of the watershed , before relapsing into the next valley to the east . |
| 28 | The famous and very beautiful areas of Dovedale and Manifold Valley provide many delightful walks , and a little further afield , high up on the moors , near to the source of the Rivers Dove and Manifold in the village of Flash ( England 's highest village ) the only wild wallabies in England may be seen . |
| 29 | Instead , he had put up in a hotel some miles out of town , high up on the Downs , which owed more to Laura Ashley than to Nancy Astor . |
| 30 | He quotes examples , such as Ley Rock , near Tintagel , and Bonsall Leys , high up on the Derbyshire moors , to demonstrate that the word did not always refer to pasture . |