Example sentences of "[pron] up on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next time someone cuts you up on the fast lane , pity him . |
| 2 | He has , to switch metaphors , grabbed by the throat the Tories ' controversial team of young election campaign advisers , shaken them vigorously , and hung them up on the nearest meat hook . |
| 3 | He took the tins of food through to the lean-to and piled them up on the draining board . |
| 4 | Garvey stood her up on the beer-stained trestle where she stamped out the rhythm with one foot and played jigs on her pipe . |
| 5 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |
| 6 | Erm can you push him up on the standard bearings ? |
| 7 | He arrived at the Great Northern station half an hour earlier than he had been instructed and immediately reported to the sergeant who had signed him up on the previous day . |
| 8 | He lines it up on the shiny sideboard . |
| 9 | Stick it up on the top shelf then . |
| 10 | He made a radio receiver when we were children and set it up on the main bridge over the Salzach . |
| 11 | Mary Rose took off her mink and handed it to a large redheaded girl , who looked at it and stroked the silky fur before she hung it up on the back door among the muddy anoraks . |
| 12 | A Sergeant and four Corporals arrived from Orange to pick us up on the following Monday . |