Example sentences of "up [conj] [verb] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give yourself a massage either standing up or sitting down on a towel . |
| 2 | Although she was not aware of it she was , in her shabby white cotton blouse and her dark green skirt , with her blue-black and glossy curls drawn up and knotted simply on the top of her head , her face glowing and vital , the only touch of colour in the grimy street . |
| 3 | Push the crate left to hit the switch , go down , collect the star and fly up , left and then down , go left , collect the star , fly straight right , then fly up , land on one of the platforms on the side of the wall , jump up and go right on the chair-lifts , go down , right through the wall , climb up the blocks , push the crate down two platforms and go back through the wall , go left , down , right and jump onto the boat , go right , up and left into the tent to complete the game . |
| 4 | And it used to all add up and go in on Friday , after I 'd got , got everything sorted out , go in on Friday , and get all this bumf and go to a desk , my desk , and I 'd put it down , get a bin , right , a cup of coffee , loosen your tie and start wading through it . |
| 5 | One or two ladies from the village come up and help out on these occasions , so that the Spanish couple do n't have to do all the work . |
| 6 | The whole mountain chain originated from this cleft as lava surged up and spilled down on both sides . |
| 7 | The stone swung up and landed heavily on the floor . |
| 8 | I have nothing against them dressing up and riding around on horses but I do n't like the thought of anything being hunted down , man or beast . |
| 9 | Even students are wising up and getting in on loving the environment . |
| 10 | Then they got up and ate hungrily on the hot porch , then sunbathed in the sweltering heat , lying in each other 's arms on the white beach , talking softly as the sea rippled beyond them . |
| 11 | When I designed the L.game it seemed obvious from the rules I had written that the pieces could be picked up and placed anywhere on the board . |
| 12 | Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side . |
| 13 | Sometimes he 'd get more hyped up and ride along on a snaking king-boogie , or work out a streak of magical stop-time sleaze like ‘ Boom Boom ’ ( first recorded in ‘ 61 ) . |
| 14 | He picked her up and sat down on a small settee , keeping his arm round her . |
| 15 | Gregson hung up and sat back on the bed , cradling a glass of whisky in his hand which he 'd poured himself from the room 's mini-bar . |
| 16 | What you have going for you is the ability to withstand whatever is dished up and to come out on the winning side . |
| 17 | On the way to Whitby and the first hostel , we turned off at Skinningrove , a steel-producing town that looked exactly like a slice of Newcastle 's backstreets scooped up and set down on the rugged coastline . |