Example sentences of "up [adv] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Springing up microscopically on the double helices to create that most controversial of creatures — the human embryo . |
| 2 | Party members can leave Britain , set up home on the other side of the world and retain their membership cards under Walworth Road 's overseas membership arrangements . |
| 3 | As each piece was released , Judith took it in charge to chop it up finely on the wooden board , then season it and return it to her mother . |
| 4 | He waved her to a comfortable old armchair , and she sank into its deep cushions , curling up apprehensively on the big seat , her eyes watching him guardedly , trembling at the thought of what he had in store for her . |
| 5 | From up here on the fifteenth floor the view was a panoramic one — unfortunately this morning it was also infinitely depressing . |
| 6 | Yes , all in all , a dreadful little show was being staged for me , up here on the twenty-first floor . |
| 7 | Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd . |
| 8 | Up there on the top step , looking down on Lucenzo 's bright fair head , she felt as if she stood on the brink of a great change in her life . |
| 9 | Never my best feature , my face is still swollen , up there on the left-hand side . |
| 10 | Things were indeed hotting up again ; and they seemed to Owen to be hotting up chiefly on the Moslem side . |