Example sentences of "up on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When the show started everybody jumped on it and picked up on the things that were n't working . |
| 2 | Though French brands still account for nearly half of the luxury market , German , British , Italian and even a few Japanese and American brands are showing up on the shelves . |
| 3 | But how can courgettes , which are sold by the grower at , say , 25–30p a lb at the most , end up on the shelves at Safeway for £1.16 per lb ? |
| 4 | And the more valuable the book the greater the ultimate scandal , for it will probably end up on the shelves of libraries in other parts of the world where the literary culture of England is still prized . |
| 5 | And I remember one time he gave me a list of things to do in the morning — fill this with potatoes , put the beans up on the shelves , brush the yard and then you can go out . |
| 6 | Now when you go through most of the things that you will see you can touch , but there are things up on the shelves at the sides and we put them there for special reasons , usually cos they 're very heavy or cos they might break easily . |
| 7 | Just shoved up on the shelves with no order or reason . |
| 8 | I 'd like to find some examples of that and to give the kids chances to talk and to argue their ideas where there is n't some mammoth answer stacked up on the shelves of a library somewhere . |
| 9 | There was a soft double-thump as they piled up on the panels . |
| 10 | whether he will be invited to lunch with Rose and Phil , and if not , whether to get a sandwich in a pub , or go straight back to the office , send out for sandwiches , and catch up on the plans for the Manchester Marina scheme ; and if so , whether to order egg and tomato sandwiches , or cheese and chutney , or some of each ; |
| 11 | Elizabeth was propped up on the pillows , with the baby lying in the cradle by the bed . |
| 12 | A pyjama-clad Vice-Admiral Hawkins , propped up on the pillows of his bunk , glowered at the message in his hand and passed it across to Denholm . |
| 13 | He passed a mug to her and she propped herself up on the pillows to accept it . |
| 14 | She was surprised to find that she was not at all self-conscious with him and she moved to nestle comfortably against him when he rolled away from her and propped himself up on the pillows . |
| 15 | I 'll sit you up on the pillows and you 'll be nice and comfy . ’ |
| 16 | Sun shining , birds singing , me propped up on the pillows idly chatting . |
| 17 | The " full recovery plan " would set aside 5.4 million acres , at a cost of 32,000 jobs in the timber industry : an alternative drawn up on the instructions of Interior Secretary Manual Lujan would protect 2.8 million acres but result in the loss of 15,000 logging jobs . |
| 18 | In fact , the gradient favoured a trolleybus reversing and they could be seen performing the exercise without putting their poles up on the wires . |
| 19 | It 's large a low level route , sticking to valley bottoms and passes rather to going up on the fells . |
| 20 | Mary was up on the fells with her flock of sheep and goats , she said , perhaps over Buttermere way or maybe towards Robinson . |
| 21 | Mathew Spedding , it seems , was still working his small mine up on the fells somewhere , and again , his small sett was to be excluded . |
| 22 | Anyone who wishes to hone up on the likes of Cross Keys or Maesteg , not to mention aristocrats like Llanelli , will find a great deal to intrigue and amuse . |
| 23 | Now that her ankle was better she should really go back and chase up on the calls Steve should have made in Palma so that it was all tied up when he got back but she did n't want to spoil it all with Fernando . |
| 24 | It seemed that NoS was going to be the first to tap the huge reservoir of people who had given up on the papers altogether . |
| 25 | You no doubt have picked up on the typos etc. but it is sometimes useful to have another ‘ eye ’ . |
| 26 | Up on the downs it would be dark as a velvet bag . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She said calmly , ‘ Let's go up on the Downs . |
| 29 | Back in Cardiff , my name went up on the Honours Board and my father , in the last year before his retirement , quietly enjoyed the thought that I was to spend at least part of my life in the county in which his father had been born . |
| 30 | I 'm not the best to s pick it up on the stitches and |