Example sentences of "up on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who will ever believe that I lay there , stripped naked , 1,000 metres up on top of a hill that is 300 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle ? |
| 2 | From the start , Jakki popped up on Top of the Pops . |
| 3 | Hoarding was frowned on , but tinned beans and peas , sugar , flour , anything that could be stored , was soon piling up on top of wardrobes and in garden sheds . |
| 4 | The Land Rover will go easily through 9 or 10 inches of snow , but unless deeper snow is well packed , then the vehicle will not drive up on top of it and it builds up underneath bringing you to a halt . |
| 5 | One idea was that they roll downslope from the submarine volcanic vent like plastic bags full of water , before piling up on top of one another ; another was that they whizzed along the sea bed , supported by a cushion of collapsing steam bubbles ; while a third suggested that ‘ pillows ’ are n't separate entities at all , but long , worm-like tubes whose thickness varies along their length . |
| 6 | He threw one the very worst time , up on top of the wall , and the other kids all shunned away . |
| 7 | The most elementary way is to leave the material on its original sheets of blotting paper , piling them up on top of each other . |
| 8 | Progress to go up on top of AllBase/SQL database |
| 9 | Only long cloaks blowing , up on top of the young dunes , a gaze of strange cold eyes , a flash of spear-points — then the rain drove across , and Ruth could see only night . |
| 10 | He announced that he was prepared to admit that the invisible undetectable substance existed on the moon , but insisted that it was not disturbed in the way suggested by his rival but in fact was piled up on top of the mountains so that they were many times higher than they appeared through the telescope . |
| 11 | The boat came up on top of the wave , with white water all around it . |
| 12 | Her red hair was piled up on top of her head in a rough knob ; she shed hairpins like the White Queen . |
| 13 | The moon disappeared , and there was a slow , light wind , like the breath of a dying man , as Gabriel climbed the ladder and started thatching high up on top of the third rick . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , a penthouse is like any other home , only it 's right up on top of a building and you can see for miles and miles just by looking out of your sitting room window . ’ |
| 15 | When you screw it up on top of your head it makes you look like that woman out of South Pacific , the one who sings ‘ Bali Ha'i ’ or whatever . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Anyway , I do n't see why God had to put men 's heads up on top of their stupid bodies if it means they just get blown open with shells , that 's all . ’ |
| 17 | That 's another ten grand fifteen grand I 'll sit up on top of the bonfire until it gets hot |
| 18 | These lumps can become somewhat rounded through rolling and they are piled up on top of each other to create pillow lava . |
| 19 | To warm herself up she lay in hot water up to her chin , her hair tied up on top of her head , consoling herself with the fact that physically she was almost back to normal . |
| 20 | The transporter ended up on top of one of them . |
| 21 | He had to , i th he was up on ladders and they were washing o you know sign up on top ? |
| 22 | Got an up on top the thing look . |
| 23 | So use your common sense if you are to finish up on top . |
| 24 | Oh , on Monday Jessie went to school and the teacher saw her cat suit he shouted so loudly , she jumped , jumped , jumped , jumped up , up on top of the , do n't laugh |
| 25 | Yeah , tell you what he does , he gets his back legs up on top of the wall and he does it on top . |
| 26 | This dust , and a , what 's it a hundred and fifty cars all piled up on top of one another |
| 27 | why it 's up on top of the fridge |
| 28 | And my mini 's up on top round the corner there . |
| 29 | Up on top of the counter . |
| 30 | Unicenter up on System 3000 |