Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] up on the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The drapes were drawn over all the windows , the enormous marble-topped table that dominated the room lit by overhead lamps , the wash of their light thrown up on the six members , two of them women , sitting around it .
2 If he had never seen that leaflet pinned up on the Catholic Society notice-board at college , he would never have dreamt of participating in the pilgrimage .
3 Immediately , the Coventry team manager had the news flashed up on the giant electronic message board at the end of the ground .
4 A scrawled message propped up on the far bedside table suddenly caught her eye .
5 What prompted blunter speaking we do not know , but there was to be no lack of plainness in the English memorandum drawn up on the 31st .
6 The only times he allowed Finlayson to get a clear view of him there was always another plane lined up on the other side .
7 C. K. Allen has suggested , for example , that : ‘ It is evidently difficult for a generation brought up on the early editions of Dicey 's Law of the Constitution to relinquish the belief that droit administratif is the sinister embodiment of all the distempers of the commonwealth which the Rule of Law has so proudly repulsed . ’
8 The final articles of agreement drawn up on the 17th April allowed the lease for a term of 21 years .
9 If you currently rely on several word processor operators to generate material that is then ‘ published ’ it might occur to you to simply have each word processor operator trained up on the electronic publishing system .
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