Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] up on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether Parisian or Reims produced the great mounds of town refuse which one can see piled up on the roadside are a dusty grey colour interspersed with flecks of pale blue ; the stench they give out , far outweighing that of the spent piles of marc , can not be missed . |
| 2 | In one of those announcements that trigger a double take in observers who find it hard to believe the function had not been available for years , IBM Corp this week finally added Ethernet support for the 3174 cluster controller , long after most users must have given up on the idea and made other arrangements . |
| 3 | ‘ If men never considered the exchange rate in precisely those terms , ’ the man wrote , ‘ then the Caprice and the Ivy would have given up on the supper trade decades ago . ’ |
| 4 | At the end of every chapter there 's a review of what you 've just learned and a few questions to check that it 's really sunk in ( and a mini glossary of any new terms/jargon you may have picked up on the way . |
| 5 | Er with this instruction , it will get picked up on the quality |
| 6 | ‘ We wholeheartedly support pedestrianisation but I am concerned that our buses could get bottled up on the ringroad , ’ he said . |
| 7 | So perhaps four and a half hours , if we do n't get held up on the M twenty five , four and a half hours would do so that , if we leave here at two , we could be there , you know , well by seven . |