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Example sentences of "[noun pl] up on the " in BNC.

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1	Similarly , while a pupil with this type of visual condition might be able to read words up on the blackboard with little difficulty , locating the words themselves could be an initial problem .
2	As he did so , still lying there with his legs up on the chair he 'd fallen over , he started to over-balance to one side , towards Fergus .
3	Legs up on the side , Doug looks like he is in childbirth .
4	She was wandering about the room , pulling the covers up on the bed and tidying up half-heartedly , waiting for the kettle on the gas-ring to boil .
5	There was the hum of cars up on the main road .
6	But it 's probably the sort of house where visitors feel sufficiently at ease to put their feet up on the sofa .
7	Tammuz threw himself into a chair and put his feet up on the edge of his workstation .
8	When the train started the Feldwebel sat down and put his feet up on the seat opposite .
9	Then he put his feet up on the bench and snored for ten minutes .
10	I sat alone in a compartment , coming to terms with the fact that I was free at last and if I wanted to put my feet up on the opposite seat or take off my tie , no one in uniform had the right to bustle in and call me Airwoman in that well-known disapproving voice .
11	Feet up on the fender , paper on the floor ,
12	Venture capitalists like to keep close tabs on their investments , going down to the offices of the fledging chief executive officers once a week , putting their feet up on the desk and playing father confessor .
13	I swung my feet up on the desk and lay back in the chair .
14	You 're in the mood for a long spell at the crease , but the penis decides that it ca n't wait to get the game over and done with before heading back to the pavilion to put its feet up on the couch .
15	Miranda , in black linen shorts and halter top , lay with her feet up on the terracotta-coloured sofa , enjoying her idleness .
16	I would sit with her often for a whole hour , she with her feet up on the sofa , resting .
17	Pete had arranged himself in the passenger seat so that he could get his feet up on the dashboard .
18	Now he sat out on the porch with his chair tilted back and his feet up on the rail , and he sipped at his beer as he watched the patterns of sunlight on the forest over on the far side of the track .
19	Kenneth sighed with pretended regret , putting his feet up on the low wall of the terrace and rocking his seat back on its rear legs as he shaded his eyes with one hand .
20	He put his feet up on the desk , tilted back the swivel executive chair and went to sleep .
21	Maurice was sitting sideways behind his desk , feet up on the radiator beneath the window , one hand flexing his lower lip while the other trailed across the blotter .
22	‘ Thirteen thousand feet up on the shores of Lake Titicaca .
23	Brown started to giggle to himself , put his feet up on the sofa and waited for the images and feelings to take possession of him .
24	Tamsin puts her feet up on the table and asks why not .
25	The kitchen , I assume , thought Leonora , and swung her feet up on the sofa , chuckling at the ludicrously large socks .
26	And he , and I remember ah , er er , I mean I was only , well I was sort of and he had his feet up on the table , he was smoking a cigarette and he , and he had a laid back attitude .
27	HP PerfRX , a system performance monitoring tool is now available for OpenView , priced at £5,000 , and HP is also putting its backup and print management applications up on the environment .
28	He 'd spent days up on the cliff behind the quarry , watching them take off .
29	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 .
30	And apparently these other lads further down , to the tune of about a hundred and fifty yards , had all lifted the boards up on the belt and so all their slack and that was coming to me .