Example sentences of "[verb] up on a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The pot was taller than a man , and a prisoner had to climb up on a table in order to extract a sample with a huge ladle . |
| 32 | His writings were later able to save a model child , the philosopher John Stuart Mill , who had been brought up on a system of intensive reading and deprived of the ‘ culture of the feelings ’ . |
| 33 | Corbett then cleaned his boots , washed , changed his tunic and ravenously ate the bread and cheese brought up on a platter by an aged lay sister . |
| 34 | The 44-year-old director was born and brought up on a ranch in California , before attending military school and a spell in the Marines . |
| 35 | Brought up on a farm in Kenya , he had lived there until he was seventeen . |
| 36 | The hay had been brought up on a wain in front of which two of the farm horses stood , blowing plumes of steamy breath . |
| 37 | A younger generation , or at least a younger American generation , has been brought up on a list of acid tests , invented to get rid of the boiled oatmeal consistency of the bad verse of 1900 , and there is no doubt that many young readers seeing Binyon 's inversions , etc. , will be likely to throw down the translation under the impression that it is incompetent . |
| 38 | It is Perhaps a pity that Mary Queen of Scots was not brought up on a diet of d'Ayala . |
| 39 | In other words , if you are brought up on a diet of do 's , don'ts , should 's and shouldn'ts , you will be inclined to spend a lot of time and energy earning approval . |
| 40 | WHEN YOU 'RE BROUGHT UP ON A DIET OF HINES , VIREN AND YIFTER , A VIEW FROM SHELL SUIT FITS PERFECTLY . |
| 41 | Children brought up on a diet of TV and video are no longer as tractable and easy to control , as they once used to be , even in the younger classes of the junior school . |
| 42 | Thus the animal locates itself in space by use of environmental reference points ( this is of course more or less what a psychologically untutored lay person might have guessed would happen , but it was not what psychologists brought up on a diet of Skinner would have theorized ) . |
| 43 | Now I do n't know if you 've been brought up on a diet of men who jump in and out of bed with whatever women take their fancy , but if you have then I suggest you go find one of them to satiate your appetite . |
| 44 | Sub-contracting works fine most of the time but if you want something done urgently and the typesetter is broken or tied up on a job for its owner then guess who 's work is going to have to wait . |
| 45 | Their names went up on a list on the school board as being entitled to free lunches . |
| 46 | They encourage the children to imagine what it 's like to be a character in the play — one of two twins who are separated in a shipwreck and thrown up on a beach on a strange island . |
| 47 | I just wanted to erm pick up on a couple of points that er people have made in the course of a and responses I think to my er opening statement . |
| 48 | If the other two teams can pick up on a piece of information they missed out , they get a mark and you lose one of your ten . |
| 49 | The whole idea of erm a fax is to get the thing there quickly is n't it ? if it 's sort of sitting up on a desk for three days before they bring it down . |
| 50 | Above the fireplace a layer of furry soot clung to the under-surface of the beams : on their upper surface flakes of chaff , from the autumn threshing on the roof , had lodged themselves in pockets , and as she swept , the black and yellow particles cascaded to the ground , then floated up on a cloud of swirling dust . |
| 51 | ‘ You have an inoperable cancer of the right lung , ’ said the great man , and he pointed to a large X-ray photograph blown up on a screen in front of us . |
| 52 | He ended up on a drip in the Princess Margaret hospital . |
| 53 | Henry Hughton was snapped up on a free-transfer for Palace from Orient and was arguably one of Manager Alan Mullery 's best signing for the club , because Henry 's amazing versatility became extremely useful in several difficult seasons at Selhurst Park . |
| 54 | But in saying that I 'll go ahead , I 'll go ahead with what Robert said although it seems as if erm between us we picked up on a lot of things , there was some objections that Martin threw at you that I thought you handled particularly well . |
| 55 | Got held up on a bit of business . ’ |
| 56 | As the only exits are through the roof , he must rise to the occasion — find a key that controls the fans that lie directly underneath them , and float up on a jet of fresh air ! |
| 57 | POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months . |
| 58 | She jumped up on a branch of a tree . |