Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was lounging on the sofa when she returned to the house , his long legs propped up on a low onyx table , while he flicked his way desultorily through the pages of a paperback . |
| 3 | Only two minutes left when Richard Walker popped up on the proverbial back stick , sounds painful does n't it , and it was for Portsmouth . |
| 4 | It was n't long before she heard Douglas 's car draw up on the short gravel drive . |
| 5 | Alright th the car blew up on a dual carriageway there 's |
| 6 | All I mean by forearm rotation is that the forearm rotates slightly to the left on the backswing so that the club moves up on the correct swing plane . |
| 7 | The machine bumped up on a stony track that led in the general direction of the distant barn . |
| 8 | A side view of the decamer ( Fig. 1 b ) shows that CsA-binding loops of CypA are on one face of the pentamer whereas the secondary structure elements line up on the opposite surface . |
| 9 | But such paradoxes were unlikely to convince businessmen brought up on the economic theory of the ‘ wage-fund ’ , which they believed to be a scientific demonstration that raising wages was impossible and trade unions were therefore doomed to failure . |
| 10 | With a spreadsheet set up on a personal computer , this requires very little time to calculate and provides a direct guide to strategies concerned with cost leadership . |
| 11 | Through the wide-open window floated the lightest of breezes , tangy with the scent of wild herbs growing up on the rugged hills behind the town . |
| 12 | Before the crowd could drift off , Cameron got up on the massive stone gate-post and called on them to swear an oath . |
| 13 | This has major pedagogic implications , since students can no longer hope to make sense of poems or plays just by reading them carefully , but must spend time in libraries getting up on the historical context . |
| 14 | ‘ All boats go up on a rising tide , ’ observes Frank Delaney philosophically at the end of one of those come-on-Fred-we-give-you-all-this-advertising-how-about-an-in-depth-profile pieces , in this case on Harper-Collins , that PN does so well . |
| 15 | I 've heard similar things about ‘ Talk To Your Daughter ’ , where the original demos of some tracks ended up on the final recording . |
| 16 | After all the Christmas lights remain up on the main street , and are still working . |
| 17 | On the other side of Pottery Bridge , carrying the A639 , a sizable marine vessel sits up on the right bank . |
| 18 | He actually dreamed of himself in a suit of armour opening the big , oak front door with a mace in his hand and Adam riding up on a black , colourfully caparisoned horse . |
| 19 | The lorry speeded up on the downhill run to the next roundabout and the huge road-signs giving warning of the end of the twin carriageway and the start of two-way traffic . |
| 20 | But then the skull starts to grow in a strange , asymmetrical , twisted fashion , so that one eye , for instance the left , moves over the top of the head to finish up on the other side . |
| 21 | Even a computer-literate user brought up on a different type of mainframe may find the nested screens in CMS and the XEDIT editor offputting at first . |
| 22 | LIFE magazine followed up on an odd ad in a North Dakota newspaper from a woman offering to swap her engagement ring , wedding dress and veil for a Harley-Davidson motorbike . |
| 23 | While I examined my sleeve , which had only a slight tear , the dog leapt up on the young man and the child , his open mouth only inches from the little boy 's legs . |
| 24 | If he had never seen that leaflet pinned up on the Catholic Society notice-board at college , he would never have dreamt of participating in the pilgrimage . |
| 25 | Well , the main Control Room is , it 's the centre of all the communications set up on the operational side for the Fire Brigade . |
| 26 | Ironically , while McKean buried his accident-prone reputation , Brazil 's Jose-Luis Barbosa tripped up on the penultimate lap . |
| 27 | ‘ I straightened my back , and I walked down the stairs to my parents and I said goodbye to them and to the servants lined up on the front steps . |
| 28 | Immediately , the Coventry team manager had the news flashed up on the giant electronic message board at the end of the ground . |
| 29 | She went closer to the walls , marvelling at the detail : the starfish flung up on the painted sand , the panting dog , the discarded bucket and spade , the bottle of sun oil . |
| 30 | A scrawled message propped up on the far bedside table suddenly caught her eye . |