Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] a [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | BARCLAYS , the biggest plastic card issuer , is gearing up for a blitz on card fraud in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 2 | She crashed down the four steps , ending up in a heap on the landing . |
| 3 | But it would take a pretty exceptional executioner to come up with a vegetable on the spur of the moment . |
| 4 | Curled up in a ball on the candlewick , she looked about three years old . |
| 5 | Pupils would no doubt be intrigued to learn how the milk-can was used to fetch milk from the farm , or filled up from a churn on the milkman 's cart . |
| 6 | She was wearing a jade green velour ‘ leisure suit ’ and her blonde hair was twisted up in a knot on top of her head . |
| 7 | do you think your mother , your grandma should dress up with a mop on the back |
| 8 | If Anne reminded me of a gazelle , then Mrs. Constantine was like a snake : supple and seemingly without bones , smooth , lustrous , with wicked black eyes like stones and shining black hair twisted up into a knot on top of her head and a wide , wide mouth with disturbingly red lips and a flickering tongue that darted out to lick the crimson lips when she was concentrating on the cards . |
| 9 | ‘ If you did n't light up like a firework on festa night whenever I touch you , I could understand . ’ |
| 10 | AT LONG last we have a newspaper that will speak up for a referendum on Maastricht . |
| 11 | From the low admission rate , the nine hundred thousand in our revenue budget which was shown this year as savings , seven hundred thousand of which was met by fudging community care money in June is now short by three hundred thousand so at the end of this year there will be an overspend or rather a loss of income of three hundred thousand which will show up as a deficit on social services budget for this year . |
| 12 | Britain 's invisible earnings , which are made up of a surplus on things like insurance and banking offset by government contributions to the European Community and overseas aid , are now projected to be about £2,670million in 1989 , less than half the £6,100million total earned in 1988 . |
| 13 | I was quite surprised , er during the summer I went to my grandson 's school fete and they had a hot air balloon demonstration there and this er , this car turned up with a trailer on the back with , I du n no , probably some name , hot air balloon name on the trailer , I thought oh yes he 's gon na show us how to inflate it and i I was quite amazed from the time he unpacked the balloon to the time it actually took off was only ten minutes . |
| 14 | A two-year-old is reaching excitedly out towards the hot soldering iron propped up against a saucer on the table . |
| 15 | NI takes a different subject every month , making its a valuable part-work which builds up into a library on development , a handy source of reference . |
| 16 | In fig. 122 Herakles stands three-quartered , offering the birds ' bodies ( lost ; we know the subject from Pausanias ) to Athena , who sits up on a rock on which her left hand rests , legs three-quartered away from Herakles , but she turns back towards him . |
| 17 | I do n't buy guitars to put up in a cabinet on the wall . |
| 18 | Jack calmly walked up to a stranger on a bench and asked : ‘ Can I borrow a fag ? ’ |
| 19 | McAllister , clad in her shabby bottle-green dress enlivened at the throat by a bit of cheap lace , her serviceable shoes on her feet , her hair simply tied up in a knot on top of her head , her hands red raw from hard and constant manual work , resignedly straightened up , to meet the gaze of Havvie and his friends . |
| 20 | With many years of experience , Eddie handled each situation as exampled in the last call of the day at Carpetwise , when Dave Walker , the proprietor jokingly strangled Eddie because of a delivery problem This was instantly resolved by a telephone call to head office and followed up with a discussion on the test marketing of Stoddard Templeton 's new fabric venture . |
| 21 | I finished up with a hand on her breast and my face within inches of hers . |
| 22 | Janet posted a letter for me last week to a friend who I worked with at Ipswich , she was one of the girls behind the counter and at the moment they , her and her husband , he , he , he , he was on the , he finished up but he started as a lad in the kitchen but he finished up as a chef on the dining cars and they married and er and they 've got er two children erm they 're married to and , and we kept , we 've kept in touch with each other for sixty years |
| 23 | Adam had a sudden awful vision of the spade going through that green turf and coming up with a skull on it . |
| 24 | His current philosophy is summed up by a note on his fridge door — ‘ Ask nothing , expect nothing and accept everything ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I got my legs out of the way and curled up in a ball on the driver 's seat . |
| 26 | A young friend rang up with a query on weights for ribber work . |
| 27 | The sponsors are offering 4–7 about Granville Again , with Morley Street , sharpened up by a win on the Flat at Doncaster , available at 5–4 . |
| 28 | Their names went up on a list on the school board as being entitled to free lunches . |
| 29 | You can go up to a woman on a street corner and start yelling at her and ten minutes later she 's back at your place doing God knows what . |
| 30 | I was , what I was afraid of , we 'd end up with a house on , on , on a tilt |