Example sentences of "[vb past] up on a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I got up on a bench in the middle of the market and we were soon surrounded .
2 Sub-contracting works fine most of the time but if you want something done urgently and the typesetter is broken or tied up on a job for its owner then guess who 's work is going to have to wait .
3 Their names went up on a list on the school board as being entitled to free lunches .
4 Above the fireplace a layer of furry soot clung to the under-surface of the beams : on their upper surface flakes of chaff , from the autumn threshing on the roof , had lodged themselves in pockets , and as she swept , the black and yellow particles cascaded to the ground , then floated up on a cloud of swirling dust .
5 He ended up on a drip in the Princess Margaret hospital .
6 But in saying that I 'll go ahead , I 'll go ahead with what Robert said although it seems as if erm between us we picked up on a lot of things , there was some objections that Martin threw at you that I thought you handled particularly well .
7 POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months .
8 She jumped up on a branch of a tree .
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