Example sentences of "[vb past] up on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rose up on tiptoe , looking round for James , Allan , and the rest . |
| 2 | Not really a march , not even a brisk tramp , but a shuffling movement forward towards the opened gate : Holly saw the high wooden fence of vertical overlapping boards and above it the rise of steep angled roofs and in the corners were watch-towers built up on stilts with the platform reached by open ladder . |
| 3 | The vast constructions built up on slave labour by the Ancient Egyptians or Romans were therefore not possible in Romanesque Europe . |
| 4 | Then they came upon a clearing where there was a hut , made of lap-boarding with a verandah , and built up on bricks . |
| 5 | ‘ I cracked up on Friday , ’ he says . |
| 6 | She woke up on cobblestones , surrounded by a rich fog . |
| 7 | Now I do n't know where you were Sunday night , so I do n't know where you were Monday morning , it 's personal to you , where you woke up on Monday morning . |
| 8 | Last Wednesday , before I woke up on Thursday . |
| 9 | As a matter of fact , I came up on deck to get my first glimpse of the island . |
| 10 | The boat came up on top of the wave , with white water all around it . |
| 11 | Mike came up on Wednesday night after virtually no sleep since leaving my house on Monday at 3.30 am . |
| 12 | Hodai came up on Burun 's other side . |
| 13 | He climbed up on stage . |
| 14 | So we were lucky and then we opened up on January the fourth nineteen fifty five . |
| 15 | When Dad fed them on the Sunday evening , he was still in the run as usual , but when my father opened up on Monday morning , the bird was missing . |
| 16 | And then I opened up on Saturday morning , first thing and there I was standing in the shop . |
| 17 | It was lucky for us all , was n't it , boys , that fancy new Saks store opened up on Fifth Avenue just before we came away ? " |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In 1980 , the computer giant turned up on Mr Gates 's doorstep seeking an operating system ( the software that tells a computer 's electronic circuits how to work as a computer ) for its forthcoming personal computer . |
| 20 | ‘ No , ’ he said with a grin , ‘ today I turned up on time . ’ |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | Long before the incriminating photograph turned up on Major Tzann 's desk , he would be over the Czech border and awaiting the transport which would convey him to Germany , and thence to the United States . |
| 24 | DIANA Ross turned up on Des O'Connor Tonight with the song that has alrady been a hit in America , As Clouds Roll By . |
| 25 | We they never turned up on Wednesday ! |
| 26 | Our wild coastlines have fewer human visitors than in the summer months , but if you brave the elements you may be lucky enough to see grey seals hauled up on beaches and rocks . |
| 27 | I thought it joined up on Mozambique . |
| 28 | And I joined up on March the fourth nineteen eighteen . |
| 29 | A team of Argentinian and Guatemalan pathologists dug up on Aug. 8 the bodies of 11 campesinos ( peasants ) who had been allegedly murdered by the military during the previous 10 years and buried in a mass grave near the village of Chontala , west of Guatemala City . |
| 30 | 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 . |