Example sentences of "up on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've never got enough hangers to hand the clothes back up on the cable . |
| 2 | which we do , we can set a letter up on the system and we just |
| 3 | Is it set up on the system , word processing ? |
| 4 | ‘ Was he giving up on the case ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ When the show started everybody jumped on it and picked up on the things that were n't working . |
| 6 | To do that almost seemed to entail giving up on the course altogether . |
| 7 | Nigel could n't leave his digging but wished us luck and we began to make our plans : go up on the Settle-Carlisle line for a day or two , split up to get round all the caravans quicker , then meet at dinner and tea to compare notes . |
| 8 | ‘ It has taken me all this time to get to the position where I can call people up on the phone go out to dinner or to the cinema . |
| 9 | their press release , so I might do that in future , send out a release and then follow it up on the phone call . |
| 10 | Erm I do n't know I do n't yo I , I think possibly having that foot up on the stool was perhaps a mistake . |
| 11 | Up on the address side , in the left-hand corner . |
| 12 | I have probably missed a few esoteric cuisines and no doubt some of the possibilities you 'll see chalked up on the blackboard or down in the menus , but you 've got the general idea by now . |
| 13 | The result of this is likely to be that close work will present few difficulties , but more distant visual tasks such as reading sentences written up on the blackboard will give problems . |
| 14 | Similarly , while a pupil with this type of visual condition might be able to read words up on the blackboard with little difficulty , locating the words themselves could be an initial problem . |
| 15 | ‘ Never , but I 've been reading up on the history . ’ |
| 16 | There was absolutely no point in having two hundred people perched up on the road looking down on the top of a marquee . |
| 17 | The fall seemed to bring Liam to his senses and he sat up on the road wondering where he was . |
| 18 | He paused as the first hospital direction sign came up on the road . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , puppies in particular may rush out through the door in this situation , often ignoring the visitor , and could end up on the road . |
| 20 | The water seems to dry up on the road without getting too far . |
| 21 | The blaze broke out 50ft up on the road deck of the flyover at Middlesbrough . |
| 22 | The plaintiff negligently fastened his ass up on the highway . |
| 23 | It has but I 've turned the stat back up on the cylinder just made the boiler cut in again cos that 's that 's why the boilers cutting out cos it what it does once it gets up to temperature then it 'll shut itself off . |
| 24 | But it 's probably the sort of house where visitors feel sufficiently at ease to put their feet up on the sofa . |
| 25 | My father put up on the sofa in the big living-room next to my bedroom , which I had claimed as my study . |
| 26 | But Donald was doubled up on the sofa . |
| 27 | If you want to spend your Sundays curled up on the sofa , watching television , and having a few drinks , why not ? |
| 28 | Some days were better ; she would curl up on the sofa and talk dreamily about their taking a trip to Norway together . |
| 29 | Aunt Sarah would be curled up on the sofa , in guernsey and old jeans , having chased Robin and Jenny out so that she could phone in peace . |
| 30 | They took the brandy into the sitting room and lit the gas fire and curled up on the sofa . |