Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His family background was humble but he had been brought up on the writings of Beatrice and Sidney Webb and the philosophies of George Bernard Shaw . |
| 2 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 3 | The press played down these reverses , and they paled into insignificance when in spring 1943 word spread that a prisoner of-war camp was going to be set up on the outskirts of Fontanellato . |
| 4 | Though French brands still account for nearly half of the luxury market , German , British , Italian and even a few Japanese and American brands are showing up on the shelves . |
| 5 | Basrah had a hard war , first by being caught up on the fringes of routine military engagements and later by itself becoming a direct target for bombardment . |
| 6 | He was now studying the crayoned pictures of the nativity by local children which were taped up on the pillars . |
| 7 | The trend was illustrated by the new cemeteries , which were springing up on the cities ' fringes . |
| 8 | The goods to he sold had been piled up on the stairs where once " the possessions " had been piled ; bottles of jam and honey , heaps of hermetically sealed provisions , bottles of wine , cakes of chocolate pliable with the heat , tins of biscuits and even a few mouldy hams had been stacked against the splintered stumps which were all that now remained of the banisters Fleury had found so elegant the first evening he had entered the Residency . |
| 9 | If the idea of popping a PC or a printer into your shopping trolley alongside the jam , teabags and toilet paper appeals to you , why not try a day out to one of the PC World superstores that are cropping up on the outskirts of London ? |
| 10 | Elizabeth was propped up on the pillows , with the baby lying in the cradle by the bed . |
| 11 | As the coffin was lifted up on the shoulders of the men , Carmella stood and reached out her hand to touch its wood at Joey 's shoulder . |
| 12 | Carolyn was picking up on the movements of the three women , which had seemed so mysteriously random at first . |
| 13 | The drays and bullocks Stephen had sent from Yarrundi eventually arrived on 27 September , the ‘ tent was struck ’ where Gould 's men had encamped outside town with all the provisions , and was loaded up on the carts for the long , slow haul back to the reaches of the Upper Hunter . |