Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heating in the Met Office was by means of an open coke fire , and this we kept stoked up high on cold nights , but I 'm not sure that this was such a good idea . |
| 2 | The local Wiccans came up here on warm nights to dance around in their bare scuddies . |
| 3 | Freezebranding does n't show up well on grey horses or when rugs are worn . |
| 4 | Old ones pipe up again on other subjects . |
| 5 | ‘ If you look the way the snow falls , ’ he said hesitantly , ‘ you can see the air conditioning is blowing it this way , ’ he pointed , ‘ so it piles up more on this side of things than that side . |
| 6 | They grow sticking up vertically on sandy sea floors , some only a few centimetres long , some half as tall as a man . |
| 7 | It is said that he was found out by one of the groups of civilian vigilantes who sprang up spontaneously on 22 December : apparently he had disguised himself in ordinary working clothes and was driving a Dacia 1300 when stopped , but suspicion was aroused when a search of his car revealed citrus fruits , like oranges and pineapples , in the boot — no ordinary Romanian had access to them . |
| 8 | Curiously , this branch of crime fiction appears to have sprung up independently on either side of the Atlantic at much the same time . |
| 9 | Can I interrupt and say at the moment that there 's a vast difference between a site which is set up indiscriminately on some layby somewhere with no direction or control and no facilities there , and the sort of the thing that we 're talking about . |
| 10 | And the wording could be tightened up possibly on that basis chair er chairman . |
| 11 | So if they 're gon na go up there on a Sunday they ai n't gon na go up there on another day . |
| 12 | Meredith glanced up uncertainly at the four-storey buildings soaring up forbiddingly on either side of the alley where they were walking . |
| 13 | She had gone through all the rigmarole of dressing and making up almost on automatic pilot , deriving none of the normal pleasure from the procedure . |
| 14 | Heavy wrought-iron black fireplaces were installed once more , to Ted 's irritation , as he 'd spent much of his working life tearing out fireplaces so women like my mother did n't have to get up early on freezing mornings to make up the fire on their knees . |
| 15 | Lord Owen , the EC 's envoy to the area who pops up regularly on American television , has made a call for American troops his watchword . |