Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the supermarket recently , I crept up on the man in my life who was examining the label on a frozen gateau . |
| 2 | Yes I pick up on the comment from the , Notts are n't as in control as they were , after first Tony and then Paul got their names on the score sheet in each case for the first time this season , both with bristling finishing efforts and you 'd be a harsh critic indeed who did n't agree that Pisa deserved to pull one back because they played some fine attacking football , and it was the player who 's caused most danger , who 's wearing the number eleven that moved across to the right hand side , got clear of the defence , pulled back an absolutely brilliant clot cross and in the middle who 'd missed an earlier header on fifteen minutes to make it one one , did n't miss on this occasion . |
| 3 | I got up on a bench in the middle of the market and we were soon surrounded . |
| 4 | And I got up on the wall right ? |
| 5 | One morning I hopped up on the fence to have a good look around and there , sunning herself in the patio window of the empty house , was the most gorgeous long-hair I 'd ever seen . |
| 6 | And it is , I put up on the screen there where the depots are so they know what they 're looking for , and I say , now what I want you to is tell me where the depots are . |
| 7 | That 's when I threw up on the carpet . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I climbed up on the roof through the window of the ladies ’ toilet , and hung a string of underwear from the Mackintosh Bird … for charity . ’ |
| 9 | I turn up on the set with twenty pages of notes . |
| 10 | Until 1978 that is , when we had the first and last National Conference in this country and after spending about three days cooking rice and feeling very exhausted , I went up on the platform to speak on behalf of Chi lean women and I was made to shut up . |
| 11 | I mean , I 'd had the feeling before , a bit , the first couple of times I went up on the End , it was that much closer to the spindle . |
| 12 | I grew up on a farm . ’ |
| 13 | To the crews ' embarrassment I stumped up on the bridge wearing the eye patch and the parrot on my shoulder with the added embellishment of an iron hook up the loose sleeve of my coat , to take Venturous alongside in full view of a crowd of holidaymakers lining the pier who , although somewhat mystified , obviously enjoyed the show . |
| 14 | So I gave up on the idea of girls until I was about fifteen , when I suppose my hormones calmed down a bit . |
| 15 | After a disastrous relationship in my early twenties in which the woman made me feel like a rapist , I gave up on the idea of sex and women . |
| 16 | ‘ When the proposals failed , I gave up on the profession and have not set foot in the Institute since , but it is characteristic of Bill 's commitment that he has carried on regardless . ’ |
| 17 | Well she l she lived I think up on the hill above here . |
| 18 | Can I pick up on a point that you 've just made Mr Sedgewick and also points made by those on your right about exceptions and presumptions . |
| 19 | If I stood up on the walkway , I thought , I could probably stretch up and touch the ceiling , but would n't be able to reach the hole . |
| 20 | One of the first questions you get asked of anybody when they first come on a training course here , er , certainly a sort of foundation course , is that somebody writes up on the board there T N T , and says what does that stand for ? |
| 21 | she said , so she goes up on the step now , goes to this |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Oh you oh you mean up on the board or |
| 24 | You know , perhaps if you straightened up on the side , or made it a bit more symmetrical , so that I know how to improve it next time . |
| 25 | She got up on an elbow . |
| 26 | The railway will be operating as normal and anyone who turns up on the day can join in the fun . |
| 27 | Several times in the night she had this bad dream and once she woke up on the floor . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | An engaging Irish shaggy-dog story about a failed sixteen-year-old suicide who ends up on a vegetable truck bound for Sweden . |
| 30 | One of the precautions was that everybody however remotely connected with the pie had to have their excreta tested , and this fact led to the pinstriped officials from Westminster who turned up on the night before pie day being turned away . |