Example sentences of "[v-ing] up on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For members of the nobility the struggles of Lancaster and York could have drastic results , particularly for those who incurred forfeiture through ending up on the losing side ; although attainders could be reversed and lands restored , this might take a long time ( 130 , Ch.5 ) . |
| 2 | Picking up on the head maltster 's request for co-operation in Audience , Pryce-Jones wrote , ‘ Will Ferdinand help , and kindly inform on himself ? |
| 3 | Playing the fringes of the metropolis , Lily had used to hope that one day , looking up on the prompt side , she would see one of George Edwardes 's scouts . |
| 4 | That well Lil and Nev going up on the mini break |
| 5 | Born Alfredo James Pacino he is still haunted by memories of growing up on the mean streets of New York 's South Bronx where his street gang pals called him The Actor . |
| 6 | Through the wide-open window floated the lightest of breezes , tangy with the scent of wild herbs growing up on the rugged hills behind the town . |
| 7 | So this must be where Marc plots his business deals , she thought , trying not to show too much curiosity about the details flashing up on the several screens against the wall . |
| 8 | You can compensate for using more time working a really special border and so on by speeding up on the main sections . |
| 9 | A quick look at the broadcasting page of any daily newspaper shows that you could spend all day ( and night ) catching up on the latest election news ( should you feel so inclined ! ) . |
| 10 | Now a mile or two ahead , we could see a white line where the swell was crashing up on the fringing reef . |
| 11 | Fortunately , some experience had been building up on the European continent , in Holland in particular , with DMUs which had very reliable and cost-effective engines and transmissions . |
| 12 | The mood of Bank Holiday reflects that of a nation knowing that war must come , but other films dealt more directly with the storm clouds building up on the other side of the Channel . |
| 13 | This has major pedagogic implications , since students can no longer hope to make sense of poems or plays just by reading them carefully , but must spend time in libraries getting up on the historical context . |
| 14 | The times of retiring and getting up on the next morning were noted on the diary sheet and marked electronically by pushing the appropriate buttons on the recording unit . |
| 15 | ‘ Coming up on the first platform , Admiral . |
| 16 | And in addition to that , of course , they have copper , and coming up on the future horizon cobalt , and erm the possibilities of developing tourism on quite a big scale , as they were beginning to do in the nineteen sixties before Amin Amin took over . |
| 17 | This error is like climbing below a col , and coming up on the wrong side of it . |
| 18 | The man so often pilloried for fouling up on the big occasion was determined to make no mistake this time , racing to the front immediately to keep out of trouble and defying his opponents to get past . |
| 19 | The 29-year-old Motherwell man , who has made an art form of fouling up on the big occasion , acknowledged that he too came close to calling it a day after the Olympics . |
| 20 | By 2000 it will have passed both France and Britain , and will be nosing up on the real geriatrics , Germany and Sweden . |
| 21 | and this afternoon the Gloucester coach was weighing up his team 's next opponents … tomorrow at Kingsholm the cherry and whites take on the South African Barbarians … a team bristling with international talent … they were warming up on the playing fields at Wycliffe School in Stonehouse … |
| 22 | With everyone that counts stacking up on the same side , only an optimist would fight for honesty . |
| 23 | The snowflakes were caking up on the dried grasses and ferns on either bank . |
| 24 | He appeared to allay this concern during the present hearings by admitting to mistakes , specifically not following up on the vague information available to him that there might have been a covert operation and unquestioningly accepting the repeated reassurances of his superior , the then CIA director William J. Casey , that government officials were not involved in illicit activities . |
| 25 | No matter — shooting up on the purest essence of Led Zep , The Stones , and the obligatory clutch of the early '70s Yank noisemaster , Thee Hypnotics leap straight outta the museum and into the '90s , resurrecting the spirit as well as they sound of their sonic ancestors . |
| 26 | No matter — shooting up on the purest essence of Led Zep , The Stones , and the obligatory clutch of the early '70s Yank noisemaster , Thee Hypnotics leap straight outta the museum and into the '90s , resurrecting the spirit as well as they sound of their sonic ancestors . |