Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] up on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody saw it happen , but I think most likely he was fighting and got caught up on something . |
| 2 | A BODY found washed up on a beach in Kent has been confirmed as that of missing Essex woman Lisa Benner . |
| 3 | A teenage girl was seriously injured when a distress flare she found washed up on the beach at Margate , Kent , exploded in her pocket . |
| 4 | But er I did two or three hundred , four hundred , five hundred a day and I got fed up on it and I said to the gaffers one day , if you do n't change me from this job I 'm leaving , so they says oh we do n't want you to do that , best filer we 've had . |
| 5 | JUST WHEN you 'd given up on Italian House , along come more chattering piano breaks and gusty female vocals to drag you back onto your feet . |
| 6 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 7 | I 'd turned up on NBC talking about Middle East narco-terrorism right after Flight 103 crashed . |
| 8 | He 'd no place to live and they 'd ganged up on him . |
| 9 | They 'd ganged up on Kenny and afterwards he looked as if the mean streets had come up to meet him face first . |
| 10 | Clive had given her a lightning tour of the boat as soon as they arrived , but then he 'd disappeared up on deck to start the engine from the cockpit , leaving her to stow the shopping in the ice-box and cupboards and unpack her bag . |
| 11 | Her left hand was curled down under the hem of her skirt , which she 'd pulled up on that side . |
| 12 | As the boat had come round the point they 'd gone up on deck . |
| 13 | He said he 'd stood up on waves that were bigger and elected not to go : ‘ When you know you have that much whitewater to contend with and a rock-lined bay in front of you , it 's a deterrent . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , that — I , er — got cut up on the rocks canoeing , Matron . |
| 15 | It was well for Breeze that all the holidays she had spent in St Petrock 's had accustomed her to invalids — but even so , she had never seen anybody who looked as ill as the old , old man who lay propped up on cushions in the corner facing the engine . |
| 16 | The little girl lay curled up on her side , her hair in the dust . |
| 17 | One of them was less than an inch away from his eye as he lay buckled up on the ground beneath the tree . |
| 18 | Lorton had jumped up on the gazebo . |
| 19 | School had broken up on the Thursday of that week , and on Friday evening Cassie saw Ben at his car , packing his holiday luggage in the boot . |
| 20 | To be honest , it looked as though she had given up on being a woman . |
| 21 | The activists had given up on a people 's peace — and they were not yet ready to explore the possibilities of a people 's war . |
| 22 | It seemed that NoS was going to be the first to tap the huge reservoir of people who had given up on the papers altogether . |
| 23 | By about 4.30 am I had given up on trying to sleep so I got up to have a shower . |
| 24 | Pete had given up on the stew and was eating the pudding . |
| 25 | In a press conference on Aug. 1 Danforth stated that he " had given up on the administration " but that he intended to introduce his compromise bill when Congress reconvened from its summer recess . |
| 26 | His admirable Swiss detectives had checked up on her with the central police register of foreigners , and then elicited the information from the police in Jersey . |
| 27 | This man and my father had joined up on the same day , they went to the same school , played football together , both courted my mother and both fell in love with her — and she ended up marrying them both . |
| 28 | On arrival at Llandrindod we crossed over to the other platform to board the train which had arrived from Swansea — there being only nine minutes between arrival and departure — only to be told that we would have to go back on to the unit we had travelled up on . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , Ian , ’ he said , stroking the beard as if it were a favourite pet that had curled up on his chin , ‘ I think we have established incontrovertibly that you are an eidetiker of sorts . |
| 30 | Fenella , who had never seen a map quite like this one , had curled up on the floor to listen . |