Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 2 | Hurst nodded and started to pin the team-sheets back up on the board . |
| 3 | As the cars lined up on the grid , Andretti on pole , Hunt alongside him , Pete Lyons wrote a wonderful paragraph which said it all : the mechanics drilling holes in Hunt 's visor so that he could see in the mist . |
| 4 | It 's hard to resist the malevolent allure of the Third Reich , and when I telephoned Sibylle one evening a week or so later , the sound of her rich , Teutonic voice eloquently describing its owner 's activities in the Hitler Youth movement made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck . |
| 5 | So when on 16 August the letter drops on the door mat , the phone call comes from school , or the lists go up on the notice board , teenagers who have failed to get the right grades for that coveted university of polytechnic place may feel that the world has come to an end . |
| 6 | But Hunt said that if the race were officially started and the cars lined up on the grid , he would have no choice but to race . |
| 7 | There was a gang of kids playing up on the embankment , just as Preston and William had , junior hangers-on , rookie spear carriers in the terrible Derek Sumter gang which had once ruled the neighbourhood , so far as was tolerated by the greater power of the nans . |
| 8 | Meredith was sitting in the stalls with his feet propped up on the row in front . |
| 9 | If the more rural areas show up on the whole slightly better than the more populous places that is perhaps a feature that occurs in other aspects of Scottish life ; and let the indwellers in those backward centres of population not repine . |
| 10 | No sooner had a special train , carrying 633 people who had taken refuge at the West German embassy in Warsaw , arrived in Hanover yesterday than at least 200 more refugees turned up on the embassy doorstep . |
| 11 | There were only a few dresses but these were elaborate , expensive and curiously old-fashioned compared to the heap of jeans and dungarees piled up on the floor of the wardrobe . |
| 12 | It has been found that regular use of some 2 in 1 's can cause ingredients to build up on the hair shaft which may affect the results of a perm or colour . |
| 13 | Then , as we neared the entrance , a ship came up astern , and she can only have been one of Everard 's sailing barges coming up on the tide . |
| 14 | So here 's the proof that not all one-miss blunders end up on the dole queue . |
| 15 | Nineteenth-century industrial settlements grew up on the north side of Bolton with the great textile boom , when wealthy mill-owners created model villages after the example of Port Sunlight ( q.v . ) . |
| 16 | Blind grain sites showing up on the ears of some cereal crops could trim yields and perhaps downgrade stands intended for seed . |
| 17 | The current crop of presenters lined up on the steps of the same church outside Broadcasting House where the original team — Terry Wogan , Bob Holness , Jimmy Young and all — had posed exactly a quarter of a century before . |
| 18 | The shelves ended up on the tip , and the new ones were made of wood and fixed to the wall with screws and wall plugs . |
| 19 | Torrance suffered the jibes and in those early days of his experimentation there were often queues of fellow pros lining up on the practice putting greens of Europe to have a go themselves . |
| 20 | What made things particularly difficult was that I felt I was n't Black enough for my Black colleagues and that white workers picking up on the division used this to their advantage by divide-and-rule tactics . |
| 21 | But often boats moored up on the river tend to blend into one another , but these three boats are completely separate , separated , they do n't overlap each other at all . |
| 22 | I , personally , have the number of days pasted up on the inside of my locker . |
| 23 | Every evening throughout the winter thousands of birds , including Bewick Swans , Canada Geese and Greylag Geese queue up on the Swan lake for their late meal of wheat . |
| 24 | Every evening throughout the winter thousands of birds , including Bewick Swans , Canada Geese and Greylag Geese queue up on the Swan lake for their late meal of wheat . |
| 25 | the colours come up on the bottom again . |
| 26 | Perhaps only three or four keys on the typewriter keyboard that the computer will have need to be pressed at all , and if a child presses the wrong one it does n't all stop and funny , you know , impersonal messages come up on the screen saying he 's done something wrong , it just ignores them and waits for one of the correct responses . |
| 27 | There was still the warehouse on his left , and a derelict site beyond that , with occupied flats coming up on the right … |
| 28 | ‘ I was thinking that whenever I 've been into a student 's flat there was a different atmosphere … a lot of things pinned up on the walls , for instance posters mostly … ’ |
| 29 | This time , the lights went up on the slipper-fight . |
| 30 | I think it 's important for you to recognize , you 'll see form that plan that all the major radials end up on the York inner ring road . |