Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to roar out James 's name , his own name , to scream for help , he tried to pull up on the sill but his fingers scrabbled uselessly and he dropped back . |
| 2 | A teenage girl was seriously injured when a distress flare she found washed up on the beach at Margate , Kent , exploded in her pocket . |
| 3 | Wondering what would happen I tried pulling up on the boom as I went into a turn . |
| 4 | She gripped the edge of the window sill , seemed to strain up on the window across the small of her back . |
| 5 | Soon genuine celebrities descended from on high and began showing up on the show . |
| 6 | The night before Nenna and her two daughters were due to leave England , storm weather began to blow up on the Reach . |
| 7 | John McLeish was in his office , Saturday or no Saturday , telling himself he needed to catch up on the paperwork . |
| 8 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 9 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 10 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 11 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 12 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 13 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , that — I , er — got cut up on the rocks canoeing , Matron . |
| 15 | And basically they managed to jump up on the bed unlike yesterday morning where pretended she could n't get up on the bed . |
| 16 | I proceeded to catch up on the last ten years of what everyone had been doing . |
| 17 | One of them was less than an inch away from his eye as he lay buckled up on the ground beneath the tree . |
| 18 | Lorton had jumped up on the gazebo . |
| 19 | Everyone crowded in and Maria had to sit up on the ledge of the window to be seen and heard . |
| 20 | School had broken up on the Thursday of that week , and on Friday evening Cassie saw Ben at his car , packing his holiday luggage in the boot . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Pete had given up on the stew and was eating the pudding . |
| 23 | In a press conference on Aug. 1 Danforth stated that he " had given up on the administration " but that he intended to introduce his compromise bill when Congress reconvened from its summer recess . |
| 24 | This man and my father had joined up on the same day , they went to the same school , played football together , both courted my mother and both fell in love with her — and she ended up marrying them both . |
| 25 | Fenella , who had never seen a map quite like this one , had curled up on the floor to listen . |
| 26 | Thus all rations for the men at the front had to come up on the backs of other men . |
| 27 | But here was a youth so far ahead of his time that if he had turned up on the streets of London sixty or seventy years later , he would still have been recognised as a sure sign of an alarmingly unrivalled degeneration among the young . |
| 28 | At the back of the platform was a fence , and although it had apparently been painted white in the early 1900's , in later years the paint had peeled off and bushes had grown up on the cutting side to provide a new backdrop to the isolated platform beside the overgrown railway . |
| 29 | In those parts of the buildings that were protected against the rains a yellow film , like nicotine staining , had built up on the marble . |
| 30 | At the start of the next session , mindful of the head of steam that had built up on the issue , Ede announced that the Government had decided to recommend the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the possible limitation or modification of the death penalty . |