Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] the [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's mixed up with the levy on Copts , apparently . ’ |
| 2 | As she was drugged up to the eyeballs on arrival , she had n't yet gone into shock but they were expecting it and , if she survived , then miracles could be performed . |
| 3 | ( Actually ‘ Boggers ’ is really called Mister Jones , but his hair stands up like the bristles on a bog er … toilet brush , hence his nickname . ) |
| 4 | The Scots caught up with the Britons on land that is now part of Coilsfield Mains farm . |
| 5 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 6 | You hook up with the people on the same trip and work it from there . ’ |
| 7 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 8 | The fragment of the Quimper dish she had picked up from the dustpan on the kitchen floor that day when she and Thérèse had seen , when she saw , when the lady had shown herself for the second time . |
| 9 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 10 | As is often the case , science has simply caught up with the hobbyist on this point , as synspilum is quite obviously different from melanurum , and from other Theraps , when you see one swimming round your tank , especially when it is an adult in full colour . |
| 11 | But they were among dozens of motorists caught up in the smash on the southbound carriageway of the A1 near Doncaster on Saturday . |
| 12 | When they were walking up through the Grove on her birthday . |
| 13 | Britain will also lead a project dealing with the acceptance of new technologies , and will team up with the US on new materials . |
| 14 | She said with a shock that she realised she had grown up among the men on her father 's farm without seeing them as people you could conceivably fancy . |
| 15 | AT TREVOR , I crossed the Dee by Thomas Telford 's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct , built nearly 200 years ago to carry barges on the Shropshire Union Canal across the deep valley ; then cycled up past the church on steep Methodist Hill , built surely as a penance for sinning churchgoers . |
| 16 | A film recorder works by taking three exposures of the image which is built up inside the box on a small high resolution monochrome CRT . |
| 17 | The country was smaller than Wales , only one fortieth the size of California ; the ridge-line of mountain peaks provided Lebanon 's epic dimensions , plateaus of snow that seemed to reach up to the moon on winter nights . |
| 18 | You then catch up with the field on the Isle of Dogs at the 17.5 mile-mark . |
| 19 | The boundaries were drawn up for the Directive on a Commune by Commune basis with the vast majority of Communes being entirely allocated to one or other LFA zone . |
| 20 | Although there were some variations as the election campaign unfolded , the thrust of the Tory message on law and order did not deviate from the plan drawn up at the meeting on 7 July 1978 . |
| 21 | The disclosure letter had been drawn up by the defendant on this belief and by its actions the plaintiff was estopped from complaining that the fact should have been included in the disclosure letter . |
| 22 | The accusation came after Mr John Gummer , the Agriculture Minister — under fierce Labour and consumer group pressure — produced a list drawn up by the manufacturers on the 70 microwave oven models tested by Government scientists . |
| 23 | The marquees have been going up for the Hay on Wye festival of Literature which begins tonight . |
| 24 | The Ingledew mansion was going up across the creek on the other side , above the grove where the saman stood and facing west ; Tom had sited his Great House further up the slope , by a magnificent specimen of an Indian fig tree with aerial roots falling like stilts and snaking over the ground below , and had designed a belvedere in the roof to give views to the four quarters . |
| 25 | Swathes opened up in the crowds on either side as they saw the brickbats coming . |
| 26 | Penarth was just one of 30 sites around the country being cleaned up by the MCS on a National Beach Clean day in April . |
| 27 | He had behaved disgracefully on Thursday and I was going to make him face up to the fact on Friday . |
| 28 | No one noticed for a month , until the contamination showed up at the filters on the primary water circuit . |
| 29 | ( Similarly , the self-relatedness within God 's triunity is opened up as the basis on which he calls into being creatures other than himself , creatures whose raison d'être is to mirror and participate in his relation to himself . ) |
| 30 | The sun is just a star , one of many thousands of millions of stars in our own galaxy , which is the milky way , which we see as we look up in the sky on a very dark night , and it was called the milky way by the ancients because it looked like a splash of milk across the sky , but we now know that it 's a flattened system consisting of these thousands of millions of stars . |