Example sentences of "[verb] up on [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond the moored boats and the fire we drew up on the bank for the night . |
| 2 | Crossing the last barrier , a narrow but fast-flowing river , the rebel army drew up on the plain of Samugarh a few miles from Agra . |
| 3 | ’ I 'm a loner who likes to curl up on a sofa with a good book , ’ she says . |
| 4 | She gripped the edge of the window sill , seemed to strain up on the window across the small of her back . |
| 5 | Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine . |
| 6 | It was a large room , totally silent save for the voice of one Sister perched up on a pulpit in the end wall , reading portions of the scriptures . |
| 7 | Usually , but not always , this will be the result of a clogged trap or of grease built up on the inside of the waste branch pipe and is relatively easy to deal with . |
| 8 | Alluvial gold , which most commonly occurs as dust or fine flakes , the residue left behind when lighter materials have been removed by the flow of natural waters , can be won by simple sluicing or washing , or even picked up on the surface in the form of nuggets shaped by the compression of fine particles into compact masses by natural forces . |
| 9 | The case of R v Dayle outlined at ( B ) 2 shows that the offence is ‘ had with him ’ and not ‘ picked up on the spur of the moment ’ . |
| 10 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 11 | He was here checking up on the search for Terry Place . |
| 12 | Lucy had curled up on a pile of old throwouts in the corner of the Wardrobe department , and had pulled some of them over herself like a burrowing animal . |
| 13 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
| 14 | He had no doubt that the case could be wound up on the strength of it . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's like being caught up on a bit of barbed wire . ’ |
| 16 | The rental sector meanwhile provides — along with all the box-office successes which nowadays transfer to tape within a few months and probably need no further introduction — the chance to catch up on a variety of ( often more deserving ) movies which have been less widely seen in cinemas here . |
| 17 | Kylie admits that the tour of the chic boutiques in Paris , London and New York gave the sisters a chance to catch up on a lot of the times they had missed when the demands of television companies just had to take priority over family . |
| 18 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 19 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 20 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 21 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 22 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 23 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 24 | ‘ Now that we only have the one line , we want to catch up on the backlog of maintenance and repairs . |
| 25 | With the paperwork finished , it 's across to the Mess for a cup of tea and to catch up on the rest of the news . |
| 26 | It 's debatable whether PGA is the best golf game , but it 's certainly the easiest to get into without the fuss of reading pages of instructions and swatting up on the physics of the humble golf ball . |
| 27 | Baboons will gang up on a leopard in a similar way , although this is a risky venture . |
| 28 | This is when the serious business begins … swotting up on the opposition for the 1992 University Boat Race . |
| 29 | Just picking up on an item on page fourteen about the externalization programme that obviously is going straight through the process er and should be resolved in the next week or so . |
| 30 | At this point , an isolated plantation will be noticed up on the hillside to the left , and if it can be reached without damaging walls it should be . |