Example sentences of "[verb] up on a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ I 'm a loner who likes to curl up on a sofa with a good book , ’ she says . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's like being caught up on a bit of barbed wire . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Baboons will gang up on a leopard in a similar way , although this is a risky venture . |
| 8 | As in so many other fields of English law , the occasions on which recovery is permitted have been built up on a case by case basis . |
| 9 | The way the ground just curled up at the edges until you lost sight of it , we could n't have crept up on a hunk of soya . ’ |
| 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 | I do n't normally sort of insist on people looking at the , the biographical background for the , but it 's crucial with Donne for you to pick up on a lot of the |
| 12 | She had built up a good little business in the indoor market-hall and now she and George had amassed enough in the bank to set up on a farm of their own . |
| 13 | The different LFA zones in the Auvergne have been drawn up on a Commune by Commune basis , each Commune being allocated completely to one zone or another with the exception of 11 Communes which are partly within one or other of the zones . |
| 14 | First , the original client shows up on a plane of existence to which she would never normally have access . |
| 15 | ‘ I feel I should say that if I had to get washed up on a beach minus my memory I was lucky the beach was yours , Dr Vaughan . ’ |
| 16 | Hours later Mr Elton 's body was washed up on a beach at Climping , two miles away . |
| 17 | Lisa Benner — police believe that her body has been washed up on a beach in Kent |
| 18 | A BODY found washed up on a beach in Kent has been confirmed as that of missing Essex woman Lisa Benner . |
| 19 | I have seen two crows gang up on a mallard with a brood of young , and , while one bird tormented the duck into chasing it , the other sneaked in and made off with a still struggling duckling in its beak . |
| 20 | Well , perhaps I can say pick up on a couple of points in the discussion . |
| 21 | the ship 's radio officer was catching up on a backlog of communications ; some outgoing messages from passengers took precedence over ice warnings |
| 22 | Some people prefer to hold the script ; others like to read off a lectern , which can be simply a tray propped up on a couple of books . |
| 23 | When I had reached the front , the first thing I saw was Granpa lying on the pavement , his head propped up on a box of apples and his face as white as a sheet . |
| 24 | I got up on a bench in the middle of the market and we were soon surrounded . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And the only way you can be born again is by looking to me , cos I 'm gon na be raised up on a cross for your salvation . |
| 27 | Worse still it is the superstition that the Holy Mass or a sermon or a prayer can not be locked up on a roll of magnetic tape without being desecrated in some way . |
| 28 | Mr Puri was wheeled out and trussed up on a chair near the shrine . |
| 29 | The sunniest pictures were pinned up on a board at the end of the ward . |
| 30 | There is evidence that the present east gable is a replacement , made very soon , for another , likewise with a battle , which seems then to have been set up on a base in the sanctuary , its centre akroterion also . |