Example sentences of "[vb past] up on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rose up on tiptoe , looking round for James , Allan , and the rest . |
| 2 | Walls of red brick rose up on his left like sheer cliffs . |
| 3 | Beyond the moored boats and the fire we drew up on the bank for the night . |
| 4 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
| 5 | A light van drew up on the wharf , and a man got out and dropped a large quantity of cardboard boxes over the side of the wharf onto the deck . |
| 6 | Crossing the last barrier , a narrow but fast-flowing river , the rebel army drew up on the plain of Samugarh a few miles from Agra . |
| 7 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
| 8 | As the cars lined up on the grid , Andretti on pole , Hunt alongside him , Pete Lyons wrote a wonderful paragraph which said it all : the mechanics drilling holes in Hunt 's visor so that he could see in the mist . |
| 9 | We lined up on the foredeck to give the traditional three cheers for her Majesty at the appropriate moment . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's two years since I last lined up on a grid , ’ Vitor said , ‘ and since then I 've refused to give interviews and avoided all contact with the media . |
| 11 | Jasper knelt up on the seats with the rest of them to observe out of the window their progress to Kensington High Street . |
| 12 | I am not suggesting that all such considerations are rationally run through and weighed up on every occasion ; they are too familiar to require it . |
| 13 | In our comfortable holiday home the kids cut out and coloured a dynasty of paper people while we caught up on our videos . |
| 14 | It was a very happy meeting , as we caught up on all that had happened since those distant Bideford days . |
| 15 | A trained work elephant then moved up on either side , rather like tugs docking a ship . |
| 16 | Huge crowds built up on the Western side of the Wall as West Berliners witnessed the historic developments , some even crossing over into the East for a walk . |
| 17 | Despite the vast edifice that they built up on extremely shaky premises the phrenologists were socially-committed men , with an interest in holistic medicine and a shrewdness that served them well when they ran their fingers over somebody 's skull in pursuit of character . |
| 18 | An external 2-pole 5-way switch will then be needed and the circuit shown in Fig. 13 built up on a small board . |
| 19 | Not really a march , not even a brisk tramp , but a shuffling movement forward towards the opened gate : Holly saw the high wooden fence of vertical overlapping boards and above it the rise of steep angled roofs and in the corners were watch-towers built up on stilts with the platform reached by open ladder . |
| 20 | Then they came upon a clearing where there was a hut , made of lap-boarding with a verandah , and built up on bricks . |
| 21 | Usually , but not always , this will be the result of a clogged trap or of grease built up on the inside of the waste branch pipe and is relatively easy to deal with . |
| 22 | I understand that other roads built up on one side only have been granted 30 mph speed limits . |
| 23 | The vast constructions built up on slave labour by the Ancient Egyptians or Romans were therefore not possible in Romanesque Europe . |
| 24 | I did n't discover the first snail or the first nettle that sprouted up on this planet . |
| 25 | The machine bumped up on a stony track that led in the general direction of the distant barn . |
| 26 | ‘ I cracked up on Friday , ’ he says . |
| 27 | Everyone was supportive when I dried up on my one and only line and we had to do it again . |
| 28 | She must have got clearance at Gravesend and sailed up on the ebb . |
| 29 | Daryl , a very tall thin young man with a neatly-trimmed beard , with a red knitted stocking tammy buffon 'd up on his hair , with thin features and a beautiful skin , more black than brown ( his mother 's face was a shiny cinnamon ) black and pointed like the African in pictures of the three kings , came down the steps into the kitchen with this tiny fair mite at the bottom of his long arm holding his hand . |
| 30 | The names of the gold winners were not known until the judges ' scores , which had been sealed , were opened and added up on the night . |