Example sentences of "[verb] up on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He imagined opening up on these feeble wretches . |
| 2 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 3 | To sum up on private dispositions . |
| 4 | To sum up on this point : with the advent of a child or children , a woman is bound to have her attentions divided between them and her husband . |
| 5 | PORTS TOP UP ON FIVE STAR |
| 6 | It was a very happy meeting , as we caught up on all that had happened since those distant Bideford days . |
| 7 | A trained work elephant then moved up on either side , rather like tugs docking a ship . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll catch up on that soon . ’ |
| 9 | During this spare time you can catch up on lost sleep ( as long as your naps do not prevent a full night 's sleep ) , relax after the stresses of the journey , adjust drinking and eating habits , and generally adapt to your new surroundings . |
| 10 | Thus the layers which are fed faster will advance faster and may catch up on slower underlying layers which they have no means of passing . |
| 11 | ‘ After taking off from Bermuda , I thought I could catch up on some sleep . |
| 12 | I understand that other roads built up on one side only have been granted 30 mph speed limits . |
| 13 | I 'm not saying that I would 've picked up on all those points because |
| 14 | I assume that Crilly has been picked up on one of his many ‘ wanted ’ charges and that the police are calling to confirm the address he has given . |
| 15 | So I 've picked up on one . |
| 16 | The Wall Street Journal has now picked up on that story we reported last month that Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc are working together to build the Macintosh System 7.1 look and feel atop Novell 's MS-DOS-compatible DR DOS to run on Intel Corp iAPX-86-based machines ( UX No 429 ) . |
| 17 | Meantime the Wall Street Journal has now picked up on that story we reported last month that Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc are working together to build the Macintosh System 7.1 look and feel atop Novell 's MS-DOS-compatible DR DOS to run on iAPX-86-based machines ( CI No 2,133 ) . |
| 18 | I thought you did n't like your German , are you a bit picked up on that then ? |
| 19 | Back in Manchester a glossy fanzine called Muze had picked up on this story and published a naively frivolous article which dared to question the somewhat confused ethical position of the band . |
| 20 | It 's nice to have but it remains a novelty : only IBM and Epson have picked up on this new format with any degree of enthusiasm . |
| 21 | Long afterwards , when it was over , when he could finally bear to think of it all , he understood that , deep down , Laura had not expected to live beyond thirty and that , without realizing it , he had picked up on this and joined in the relentless , exhausting determination to sample life to the fullest . |
| 22 | The people at the back may not be picked up on this so erm |
| 23 | I think probably the implications and a lot of people have er picked up on this as the policy has developed , is that er well they 're they 're concerned that the policy is in fact too flexible now because of how it is being interpreted by other people . |
| 24 | Briefly , cryostat sections were picked up on poly-L-lysone-coated slides and dried at 37°C for 2 h . |
| 25 | After each flight we were picked up on little points , such as our positioning or the way we were holding the glove : too high or too low , the wrong angle . |
| 26 | Am I right in saying Women 's Institute , do n't they go round and checking up on sorry erm footpaths ? |
| 27 | I did n't discover the first snail or the first nettle that sprouted up on this planet . |
| 28 | Well after er we , things be begin to get more organized , people from outside the factory was drafted into the unit so i it began to be build up on that . |
| 29 | And in a vain attempt to make Williams jump he said , ‘ I rather think we may have to tighten up on one or two things round here . ’ |
| 30 | The issue reminded many observers of the Recruit share trading scandal of late 1988 , which had led to the collapse of the government led by Noboru Takeshita [ see pp. 36463-64 ] , and which had led to a range of measures designed to tighten up on this kind of abuse . |