Example sentences of "up on the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a slower than expected march we were gearing up on the famous Green Ledge in bright sunshine — the Ennerdale mountains stretching away like the bony spine of a slumbering dragon . |
| 2 | The light flooded down from five roundels high up on the far long side , as though in a cathedral clerestory . |
| 3 | The Anchor Inn , on the border of Wales and England , high up on the far western side of Clun Forest , was the great point of assembly for drovers coming out of Wales . |
| 4 | It was left to Western businessmen to manufacture CCCP T-shirts which ended up on the Soviet black market , an acute case of carrying coals to Newcastle . |
| 5 | I ended up on the front fucking wheels of a pushbike |
| 6 | And , says the company , it has a joint marketing agreement with Hewlett-Packard in Germany , and in the US is working with both DEC and Motorola Computer Systems in its quest to pick up on the expanding downsizing trend . |
| 7 | Immediately , the Coventry team manager had the news flashed up on the giant electronic message board at the end of the ground . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , England women also finished their team event with a splendid 3–0 win against Hungary and finished in fifth position , four places up on the last European Championships in Gothenburg . |
| 9 | THE flag goes up on the 1993 Eastern Centre Motorcycle Grass Track racing season on Sunday at Brazils Farm , Woodham Ferrers , near Chelmsford . |
| 10 | turnpikes or toll-bars have been set up on the several great roads of England , beginning at London , and proceeding thro' almost all those dirty deep roads , in the midland counties especially ; at which turnpikes all carriages , droves of cattle , and travellers on horseback are obliged to pay an easy toll … in no place is it thought a burthen … the benefit of a good road abundantly making amends . |