Example sentences of "[verb] up on [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girls walked in the Rose Gardens and caught up on the past months , discussed the future . |
| 2 | Choosing the right sparkling wine can be a bit of a minefield , especially if you 're not clued up on the different brands available . |
| 3 | Born Alfredo James Pacino he is still haunted by memories of growing up on the mean streets of New York 's South Bronx where his street gang pals called him The Actor . |
| 4 | Through the wide-open window floated the lightest of breezes , tangy with the scent of wild herbs growing up on the rugged hills behind the town . |
| 5 | Large numbers of drowned dolphins are being washed up on the south-western coasts of England , apparently as a result of being caught in fishing nets . |
| 6 | You can compensate for using more time working a really special border and so on by speeding up on the main sections . |
| 7 | In this vacuum of real news , pressure builds up on the non-news programmes to fill the gap . |
| 8 | no you have to get yourself up with your four legs , you 've got four legs so you can get up , that 's it , just , that 's how horses get up on the front legs first , then the back , that 's right |
| 9 | C. K. Allen has suggested , for example , that : ‘ It is evidently difficult for a generation brought up on the early editions of Dicey 's Law of the Constitution to relinquish the belief that droit administratif is the sinister embodiment of all the distempers of the commonwealth which the Rule of Law has so proudly repulsed . ’ |
| 10 | United fans have been brought up on the sublime skills of attackers like Best , Law , Charlton , Stuart Pearson , Jimmy Greenhoff and Frank Stapleton . |
| 11 | Go upwards and stand on top of the wall ( above the window ) , go to the left of the wall and paint some ledges , then go onto the wall on the left , go left and shoot the switch , go up on the painted ledges and head right along the wall above you , go up on the trampoline and paint the button , go left along the passage , jump onto the trampoline , and from there onto the ledge on the left wall , jump to collect the painting , fall down and go up on the right of the window ( paint some ledges ) . |
| 12 | Go right and collect the painting , go left , down , and right along the passage , go down and left along the passage , go down and right along the passage , fall down the gap , and then down again into the clouds , go back to the start , go right and down , go left to the switch , go up on the painted walls , go left and collect the painting , fall down , go right and up on the stairs from the cauldron , go right and into the painting board to complete the level . |
| 13 | She 's out enjoying a Saturday shopping trip — there are people coming to dinner tonight , and when she 's stocked up on the basic necessities , she 'll choose some extra delights from the delicatessen . |
| 14 | I can soon pick up on the current contacts , get a good team together . ’ |
| 15 | By 2000 it will have passed both France and Britain , and will be nosing up on the real geriatrics , Germany and Sweden . |
| 16 | and this afternoon the Gloucester coach was weighing up his team 's next opponents … tomorrow at Kingsholm the cherry and whites take on the South African Barbarians … a team bristling with international talent … they were warming up on the playing fields at Wycliffe School in Stonehouse … |
| 17 | ‘ I straightened my back , and I walked down the stairs to my parents and I said goodbye to them and to the servants lined up on the front steps . |
| 18 | There was no need to take the time to beat up on the new pioneers . |
| 19 | The snowflakes were caking up on the dried grasses and ferns on either bank . |
| 20 | Calero said he had never heard of it , except to read about it : ‘ Was that the one we were supposed to blow up on the high seas ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Since Big Bang , all the market prices are flashed up on the electronic screens . ’ |
| 22 | This nest set up on the flat lands beyond the power stations on the south east coast will provide the evidence to Bill and his bird watching colleagues It 's not only the owls that fly at night , waders will feed at any time , but the rising tide will force them to leave the mud flats day or night |