Example sentences of "[vb past] up on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rose up on tiptoe , looking round for James , Allan , and the rest . |
| 2 | The vast constructions built up on slave labour by the Ancient Egyptians or Romans were therefore not possible in Romanesque Europe . |
| 3 | As a matter of fact , I came up on deck to get my first glimpse of the island . |
| 4 | The boat came up on top of the wave , with white water all around it . |
| 5 | He climbed up on stage . |
| 6 | To be fair , the diagram turned up on page 45 and , anyway , the Alpha 2.0 proves straightforward enough when it comes to hooking up to a power amp , combo or mixer . |
| 7 | ‘ No , ’ he said with a grin , ‘ today I turned up on time . ’ |
| 8 | He 's actually sacked his own foreman , the main contractor cos the main , the foreman turned up on site and this I think is one of the lessons to be learnt , is that foreman turned up on site and saw what was happening |
| 9 | He 's actually sacked his own foreman , the main contractor cos the main , the foreman turned up on site and this I think is one of the lessons to be learnt , is that foreman turned up on site and saw what was happening |
| 10 | Lisa and Jo had taken her to clinics , booked her in with midwives , read up on birth technology , warned her about smoking ; and all with an air of adult exasperation towards a wayward child . |
| 11 | Sometimes it would be Bessie , Billie , names we 'd all heard before and knew about ; her favourite fistful , the one she would recite just before she got up on stage , was Mae , Marie , Maria , Anna Mae B , La Miss , Marian … |
| 12 | When Rowland recently got up on stage with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at London 's Town & Country Club ( reuniting three of the four surviving BP members ) the old songs were greeted with hysteria . |
| 13 | Everyone got up on stage for the final encore and launched themselves into a shambolic but passionate rendering of ‘ Wild Thing ’ which involved a bit of hot action in the shape of LOX from Kingmaker snogging an alarmed PATRICK from the Kitchens during the chorus . |
| 14 | You can expect 24–hour room service served up on time and with the minimum of fuss . |
| 15 | From the start , Jakki popped up on Top of the Pops . |
| 16 | There was a local Patels open and doing good business at the end of the street , and I stocked up on orange juice , a couple of meat pies and a packet of chocolate biscuits . |
| 17 | When Alexei Sultanov , a nineteen-year-old from the USSR , was finally declared the winner , he rushed up on stage and lifted his trophy over his head and yipped with glee and the people of Fort Worth stood and clapped as if they had been seized with divine ecstasy . |
| 18 | Where Peach 's pen had been in the window was a cage with a snake in it , curled up on straw . |
| 19 | To warm herself up she lay in hot water up to her chin , her hair tied up on top of her head , consoling herself with the fact that physically she was almost back to normal . |
| 20 | The incendiary charges Manolo 's experts had set up earlier in the day went up on schedule . |
| 21 | Refreshed , I went up on deck and looked at the waves . |
| 22 | Ruth was there waiting when the hatches were raised and she escaped at once and went up on deck . |
| 23 | Next , I went up on deck . |
| 24 | I helped myself , and when I had finished , I went up on deck and began sorting out the rigging . |
| 25 | Well , I suppose the Old Harry Rocks do bear a slight resemblance to the Needles , but I forgave him when I went up on deck and saw that Vigilant 's motor boat was following the yacht into Poole and had confirmed our proper position with Southampton . |
| 26 | There had been partisans hidden up there during the war , before you … but now only the shepherds used the long-abandoned houses and they went up on foot with their flocks . |
| 27 | He 'd briefly inclined his head towards her , a mocking , curiously patrician gesture , then turned and disappeared up on deck . |
| 28 | This lot grew up on TV |
| 29 | The new generation grew up on TV ( literally in Howard 's case — before Richie Cunningham he played a kid on the Fifties TV show Leave It To Beaver ) . |
| 30 | Some grew up on river crossings , at water-holes on the westward trails , and a remarkable number — Matson included — on the railroads or , thanks to founding fathers with a keen eye for land values , where they deduced the railroads must come . |