Example sentences of "up [subord] [pers pn] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the lakes in the park dry up since they rely on the north-east monsoon . |
| 2 | Er in the morning he would be in before any of them , sort of thing , getting a fire lit getting the rivets heat up before they come on the job and ah the the quicker he could the the rivets heat up and passed on to the the squad , then okay the more they could put in so , if he were a good rivet boy you could maybe get a good wage , but again that was up to the squad up to the riveter . |
| 3 | Not if you 're gon na do that I want you covered up before you sit on my knee . |
| 4 | ‘ You can finish that up before you start on the one I ordered for you . |
| 5 | A layout of that kind would have the advantage that you could leave your work out on the desk in the room and go back to it later — you would n't need to tidy up before you started on another piece of work , because you 'd go to another room to do it . |
| 6 | Growing up as you have on a stud farm , you know how important breeding is . |
| 7 | The figure is Sien , painfully stripped naked , her bony shanks drawn up as she squats on a sawn-off dead tree stump . |
| 8 | People are still paying off the debt they ran up when they borrowed on the back of roaring house prices in the eighties . |
| 9 | As some of the options ( transfers etc ) only come up when you land on the right square , I did n't have to wait eons for Phil to finish his turn . |
| 10 | He will admit , however , that one should ‘ always stand up when you try on a hat — never sit down . |