Example sentences of "he [verb] up on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They certainly should not have been letting him curl up on the floor next to Badger . |
| 2 | He came up on the train for a few days , very nervous , wearing his best suit . |
| 3 | Old Hewlett-Packard Co hands say that back in their day Lew Platt never looked to be a contender for the presidency : they are gratified to see him elevated since he came up on the Unix side and wonder how much should be read into that . |
| 4 | The phone kept ringing and no one there , and then he turned up on the doorstep . |
| 5 | It must have been quite a shock when he turned up on the doorstep . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Except those missing forty-eight hours before he showed up on a roadside , ’ said Morton Stannard . |
| 7 | He threw up on the floor , beer mixed with bile steaming in the cold . |
| 8 | Then he climbed up on the rail and swung muscularly from the butt of one of the loading extensors . |
| 9 | Well he climbed up on the roof and he came down again and whatever he done , there was nothing wrong with the roof for a start |
| 10 | You know , he , he looms up on the horse , you know |
| 11 | But Susan Einzig had a more significant , also more complex , place in his life : though to all appearances she and Minton were a couple , he used her as a decoy to attract into their orbit , through her role as the attractive elder woman , keen on dancing and having a good time , the lusty heterosexual students whose company Minton needed and whom , when rebuffed by Susan , he scooped up on the rebound , with mocking asides about the inadequacy of women . |
| 12 | On the way back he pulled up on the side of the road and just said mum and him could n't live together any more . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Was he giving up on the case ? ’ |
| 14 | He went up on the left of me , sliced back in front of my car and dived at the inside of Niki from way too far back … |
| 15 | ‘ Apparently you ca n't miss , but only Brian Harley has got one so far , and this is mainly why he cleaned up on the Safari circuit . |
| 16 | ‘ And anyway , how did he get up on the roof ? ’ |
| 17 | Had he come up on the bus with us from Bishop Auckland to Willington , we 'd probably have asked for one and a half . |
| 18 | He sat up on the bed , and she saw him wince . |
| 19 | He sat up on the bed , turning away from her , running a hand through his hair . |
| 20 | The fall seemed to bring Liam to his senses and he sat up on the road wondering where he was . |
| 21 | He sat up on the bench and pulled on the robe . |
| 22 | He sat up on the chair by the fire . |
| 23 | He ended up on a drip in the Princess Margaret hospital . |
| 24 | He shrugs off his legacy of injuries — a fractured bone in his back , ripped Achilles tendons , the deep bruise on his face which he picked up on the way to winning a bronze medal in Poland . |
| 25 | He stayed up on the pulpit or whatever did n't he ? |