Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up on the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
2 | I set up on the same spot as in the previous summer , but this time my luck was different . |
3 | So was it very surprising that I picked up on the African presence moving around the island ? |
4 | I ended up on the front fucking wheels of a pushbike |
5 | I hit the central barrier and he went on about fifty yards while I ended up on the hard shoulder |
6 | Yes you do , you break up on the twentieth ! |
7 | She curled up on the other side of the bed . |
8 | ‘ Well , ’ she curled up on the deep sill and wrapped the duvet more tightly around herself , leaving him to find a seat of his own as she knew he was going to , ‘ that sounds like life — so what ? ’ |
9 | on well you go up on the left side . |
10 | She picked up on the first ring , almost as though she had been expecting him to call . |
11 | The boat too affected her profoundly ; she had never been on a boat before , except for a rowing boat in the park , and she stood up on the top deck in the bitter grey April wind , and watched the foam and the emptiness and the receding bar of Folkestone , and she thought that she had never seen anything so wonderful in her life . |
12 | you just like the idea of bacon cooking you picked up on the same idea . |
13 | Once , before starting a new stage in the story , we catch up on the other branch of the family . |
14 | And of course we broke up , we broke up on the first of August er for the er month holiday you see ? |
15 | Since they turned up on the first day of term wearing headscarves , their teachers , supported by the headmaster , have refused to teach them unless the girls remove the offending headgear . |
16 | We went swimming with Jonathan the other night and he got up on the top board and sort of and he was sort of like hanging on to the bar like this looking over |
17 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
18 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
19 | He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers . |
20 | He pulled up on the hard shoulder , switched off and got out . |
21 | She was about to reach for her drink when she caught sight of the car out of the corner of her eye as it pulled up on the opposite side of the road — a white BMW , identical to the one her uncle had . |
22 | Small and unceasingly chirpy , he grew up on the central coast , near Taree , one of 10 children of the manager of Burrell Creek 's post office and general store , which Johnny himself ended up managing . |
23 | He picked up on the young man 's unease , he recalled his own unlicensed ranting , he sensed the quarryman 's fear of him . |
24 | If the whites can only hold their form , this may allow us to sneak up on the blind side and pip them both at the death . |