Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up on the [noun] " 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 | And I got up on the wall right ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I came up on the pools ! |
| 5 | That 's when I threw up on the carpet . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Asked about his first day , Terry said : ‘ I was stunned when I turned up on the Monday only to be confronted with the aftermath of the weekend fire . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So I gave up on the idea of girls until I was about fifteen , when I suppose my hormones calmed down a bit . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A sign which went up on the Raiders ' dressing-room door after the match , advising that only Australian media personnel were welcome , bore witness to the visitors ' touchiness about defeat , though at least they did not follow Manly 's example and grumble about the referee . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Several times in the night she had this bad dream and once she woke up on the floor . |
| 18 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She flared up on the instant , turning on him and almost yelling , ‘ You bought a boat , that does n't mean you bought me . |
| 21 | She curled up on the floor and leaned against the arm of Morris 's chair . |
| 22 | She rang up on the morning with breathless excuses about having to practise a particularly beastly new piece for a concert tomorrow . |
| 23 | We , who grew up on the terraces , had it by right . |
| 24 | She went up on the hills or down to the beach . |
| 25 | It reaches us through not only the filtering processes of memory but also the demands of style : and this is particularly obvious in this instance Although his autobiography was never published , the teller of this tale , James Mackenzie , was a professional showman who ended up on the fairground stage . |
| 26 | It was Wei Feng , T'ang of East Asia , who picked up on the word . |
| 27 | He grinned as she pushed up on the window sill , her head down , hair hanging blackly . |
| 28 | Beyond the moored boats and the fire we drew up on the bank for the night . |
| 29 | We lined up on the foredeck to give the traditional three cheers for her Majesty at the appropriate moment . |
| 30 | We finished up on the track . |