Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up on the [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 | 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 | That 's when I threw up on the carpet . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So I gave up on the idea of girls until I was about fifteen , when I suppose my hormones calmed down a bit . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Several times in the night she had this bad dream and once she woke up on the floor . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She flared up on the instant , turning on him and almost yelling , ‘ You bought a boat , that does n't mean you bought me . |
| 17 | She curled up on the floor and leaned against the arm of Morris 's chair . |
| 18 | She rang up on the morning with breathless excuses about having to practise a particularly beastly new piece for a concert tomorrow . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was Wei Feng , T'ang of East Asia , who picked up on the word . |
| 21 | He grinned as she pushed up on the window sill , her head down , hair hanging blackly . |
| 22 | Beyond the moored boats and the fire we drew up on the bank for the night . |
| 23 | We lined up on the foredeck to give the traditional three cheers for her Majesty at the appropriate moment . |
| 24 | We finished up on the track . |
| 25 | Chap we stuck up on the chair . |
| 26 | ‘ Dominic had left his AA card at home — we had a bit of a row about that — so we gave up on the car and decided to go out for a meal . |
| 27 | Kylie and her new Svengali Blamey got an instant glimpse of that arrogance when they turned up on the doorstep of the Hit Factory . |
| 28 | He came up on the train for a few days , very nervous , wearing his best suit . |
| 29 | Old Hewlett-Packard Co hands say that back in their day Lew Platt never looked to be a contender for the presidency : they are gratified to see him elevated since he came up on the Unix side and wonder how much should be read into that . |
| 30 | It came up on the wall like that and had a big wooden block fastened to the wall that block |