Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] up on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Glisseuse emerged from the Swale channel at the Queenborough end , she was picked up by Vigilant and followed to the upper reaches of the Medway while Venturous made all speed round the outside of Sheppey to catch up on the operation which was now well under control . |
| 2 | John Matthias brought the filly with a customary late surge to get up on the line to beat Zadracarta , the Canadian challenger , a head . |
| 3 | It has been found that regular use of some 2 in 1 's can cause ingredients to build up on the hair shaft which may affect the results of a perm or colour . |
| 4 | The market ; always a place to catch up on the gossip as well as buy groceries , is still there . |
| 5 | It was my job to check up on the flock every morning and on Sundays Uncle Joe would come to the farm . |
| 6 | A consultant with fly-away silver hair and an offensively breezy manner asks Kate to pop up on the table and just pop her pants down . |
| 7 | A POLICEMAN was fined £500 yesterday after using the main police computer to check up on the boyfriend of a neighbour 's daughter . |
| 8 | Leonora chose a brightly coloured paperback novel about the Crusades , and went over to the fireplace to curl up on the sofa . |
| 9 | Few who 've seen Pool of late will doubt their ability to sneak up on the rails , as they did last season , as a surprise late success in the promotion race . |
| 10 | The quiet-spoken Esson has paid the price of seeing Defender slip from being third at one stage of the first leg to ninth in Punta , leaving Watkins to attack a two days , 17 hours , 37 minutes and 25 seconds deficit to make up on the leader , the New Zealand ketch Steinlager , and a 30 hours , 54 minutes , 52 seconds on the other top British challenger , Rothmans . |
| 11 | The regional affairs commissioner , Bruce Millan , also announced intentions to tighten up on the EC 's additionality principle — the rule that EC spending must be additional to planned national government spending . |