Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] up on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
| 2 | This does n't mean that ICL has given up on the Texas Instruments Inc Sparc line , simply that it can now pick and choose from the two superscalar implementations on offer , says Mike Coote . |
| 3 | Right if you have a look at what has come up on the screen , on the screen . |
| 4 | A teenage girl was seriously injured when a distress flare she found washed up on the beach at Margate , Kent , exploded in her pocket . |
| 5 | Simon Wigg has lined up on the starting grid in more world championships than most people have changed tyres . |
| 6 | Solid , castellated , and colonnaded for much of its length , it suddenly takes off into a free-flowing fantasy of spires and spirelets , as if two different architects ' designs had got mixed up on the drawing-board . |
| 7 | Whether Parisian or Reims produced the great mounds of town refuse which one can see piled up on the roadside are a dusty grey colour interspersed with flecks of pale blue ; the stench they give out , far outweighing that of the spent piles of marc , can not be missed . |
| 8 | In one of those announcements that trigger a double take in observers who find it hard to believe the function had not been available for years , IBM Corp this week finally added Ethernet support for the 3174 cluster controller , long after most users must have given up on the idea and made other arrangements . |
| 9 | ‘ If men never considered the exchange rate in precisely those terms , ’ the man wrote , ‘ then the Caprice and the Ivy would have given up on the supper trade decades ago . ’ |
| 10 | At the end of every chapter there 's a review of what you 've just learned and a few questions to check that it 's really sunk in ( and a mini glossary of any new terms/jargon you may have picked up on the way . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you want to be found washed up on the seashore with a few vital bits missing ? |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , that — I , er — got cut up on the rocks canoeing , Matron . |
| 13 | One of them was less than an inch away from his eye as he lay buckled up on the ground beneath the tree . |
| 14 | for their part , the British did not see the Canadian proposal as much of a compromise , and indeed seemed already to have given up on the conference . |
| 15 | Er with this instruction , it will get picked up on the quality |
| 16 | So far , the tabloids only seem to have picked up on the claim that couples using brain machines together have better sex . |
| 17 | So far , the tabloids only seem to have picked up on the claim that couples using brain machines together have better sex . |
| 18 | ‘ We wholeheartedly support pedestrianisation but I am concerned that our buses could get bottled up on the ringroad , ’ he said . |
| 19 | One single man lived in lodgings and his landlady was in the habit of putting in a pudding basin the lunch she had prepared for that day , for him to have warmed up on the morrow . |
| 20 | So perhaps four and a half hours , if we do n't get held up on the M twenty five , four and a half hours would do so that , if we leave here at two , we could be there , you know , well by seven . |
| 21 | Lorton had jumped up on the gazebo . |
| 22 | So you 've given up on the town park idea ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Pete had given up on the stew and was eating the pudding . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Fenella , who had never seen a map quite like this one , had curled up on the floor to listen . |
| 28 | These are n't just people I 've picked up on the street and thought , Ooh let's show some kooky S&M now ! |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |