Example sentences of "up [conj] [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Such generative practices structured my early experience , and built a constructed hierarchy of ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ which was set up and passed on to all initiates .
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 Barnard considered that the energy introduced into the homoeopathic potency during the succussion process stabilized the arrangement of the water polymers and that it was these shape-specific polymers which were built up and passed on from one potency to the next .
4 ‘ Oh shut up and get on with the game . ’
5 Where once husbands and wives would ‘ go into mourning ’ for prescribed periods ranging from months to years , we like to see people pick themselves up and get on with it .
6 Then some great fucking panty liner washes in and lands on my foot and I just get up and get on with it ’
7 ‘ Shut up and get on with it ’ — a woman 's voice this time , more hurried .
8 Leave teaching , have a good moan and another drink , or shut up and get on with it .
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10 Shut up and get on with your work .
11 In the end , of course , we all pulled our socks up and got on with the job .
12 This huge bull just walked up and got on with it . ’
13 I 'd rather you shut up and got on with it !
14 Lifting the air up and shoving on under ,
15 Fitting the right lock in the right place will make a thief think twice — he might give up and move on to easier targets .
16 Alfred put his book in his wallet , slung his bow , and with pipe in one hand and flask in the other , stood up and walked on beside the friar .
17 I need more people like my detective sergeant who rolls his sleeves up and gets on with the job . ’
18 You may trip over a couple of times on the way but you will be quite capable of picking yourself up and getting on with life until you have achieved your goal .
19 With three minutes to go , Bergsson was warming up and held on to a ball that went out of play .
20 Her hands came up and clamped on to his wrists .
21 The story of some of these presses is a fascinating one to follow , as the printers surreptitiously pull off their pamphlets and broadsides in some kitchen or remote country house , load up and press on to the next location , with an eye ever over their shoulder for the pursuers .
22 WALL AFTER WALL of raging water rose up and thundered on to the strange craft intent on destroying it and the frail humans clinging to it for their lives .
23 ‘ His advice was to shut up and get on with it , ’ says Nigel
24 You see a working , well of course they do get them up nowadays , but in th you were supposed t to stay in bed for at least a fortnight after the mother was born but you a lot of these mothers used to hop out of bed when the midwife had gone , and , and I mean if they 'd got two or three children and a husband coming in and they had n't got a mother or a neighbour or somebody to come in and do the cooking , i I mean she 'd just get up and get on with it herself .
25 But why does n't she just shut up and get on with it , like everybody else ?
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