Example sentences of "he [vb past] up on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But anyway , he came up on the Monday er sorry , on the Friday when they was paying out , he said , Which chappie paid you ? |
| 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 | He threw up on the floor , beer mixed with bile steaming in the cold . |
| 7 | Then he climbed up on the rail and swung muscularly from the butt of one of the loading extensors . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | So anyway , I said to her the week before last when he went up on the Sunday , I said go up there and say to her |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | My old mate , Malc Bassford , had 3 lb next to me — he is definitely getting better as that is his best weight since he bagged up on the River Cam 20 years ago . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | He sat up on the bed , and she saw him wince . |
| 16 | He sat up on the bed , turning away from her , running a hand through his hair . |
| 17 | The fall seemed to bring Liam to his senses and he sat up on the road wondering where he was . |
| 18 | He sat up on the bench and pulled on the robe . |
| 19 | He sat up on the chair by the fire . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He stayed up on the pulpit or whatever did n't he ? |