Example sentences of "[vb past] up on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
| 2 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
| 3 | Huge crowds built up on the Western side of the Wall as West Berliners witnessed the historic developments , some even crossing over into the East for a walk . |
| 4 | He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers . |
| 5 | It were a bit charred by the lightning , but they plugged it in and music came out and the words to the music came up on the little television screen . ’ |
| 6 | Gilly dragged a heavy stuffed chair backward to the shelf and climbed up on the very top of its back . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She went closer to the walls , marvelling at the detail : the starfish flung up on the painted sand , the panting dog , the discarded bucket and spade , the bottle of sun oil . |
| 9 | Before the crowd could drift off , Cameron got up on the massive stone gate-post and called on them to swear an oath . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Gaughan again popped up on the right wing to centre for Nick Cusack to force Stewart into another diving save , then the impressive Andy Toman charged on to a Steve Mardenborough flick , and fired just wide with the keeper beaten . |
| 13 | Only two minutes left when Richard Walker popped up on the proverbial back stick , sounds painful does n't it , and it was for Portsmouth . |
| 14 | Julie pointed out with devastating logic as she corrected the last of the school-books piled up on the large oak refectory table in front of her . |
| 15 | While I examined my sleeve , which had only a slight tear , the dog leapt up on the young man and the child , his open mouth only inches from the little boy 's legs . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He pulled up on the hard shoulder , switched off and got out . |
| 18 | The lorry speeded up on the downhill run to the next roundabout and the huge road-signs giving warning of the end of the twin carriageway and the start of two-way traffic . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 20 | She curled up on the other side of the bed . |
| 21 | I do n't know where she went or what she did , but at night she was always there , curled up on the rattan chaise-longue , looking at me . |
| 22 | The curtain went up on the second act to reveal the face from this image lying on the ground where it was walked over and trampled on by the cast . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A new community grew up on the safer site at the top of the cliffs . |
| 25 | Ironically , while McKean buried his accident-prone reputation , Brazil 's Jose-Luis Barbosa tripped up on the penultimate lap . |
| 26 | I 've heard similar things about ‘ Talk To Your Daughter ’ , where the original demos of some tracks ended up on the final recording . |
| 27 | United chopped and changed their team to face Leicester , but they still ended up on the wrong end of a 2-1 scoreline . |
| 28 | I hit the central barrier and he went on about fifty yards while I ended up on the hard shoulder |
| 29 | The old cheese presses which had lain dusty in the stable loft were brought down with difficulty on account of their immense weight and set up on the flagged floor . |
| 30 | This nest set up on the flat lands beyond the power stations on the south east coast will provide the evidence to Bill and his bird watching colleagues It 's not only the owls that fly at night , waders will feed at any time , but the rising tide will force them to leave the mud flats day or night |