Example sentences of "[noun] up on the [noun sg] " 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 | Legs up on the side , Doug looks like he is in childbirth . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Twenty five pound up on the train , return ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Richard put over , put a lot of beams and Paul at the weekend put an immense amount of his household gear up on the roof in the garage . |
| 7 | He stopped , mouth agape , gazing down across the Sound where Luch up on the roof was pointing . |
| 8 | There 's a crocodile coming , quick , quick quick , quick climb up on the boat , quick . |
| 9 | Pete had arranged himself in the passenger seat so that he could get his feet up on the dashboard . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Tammuz threw himself into a chair and put his feet up on the edge of his workstation . |
| 12 | Feet up on the fender , paper on the floor , |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I swung my feet up on the desk and lay back in the chair . |
| 15 | He put his feet up on the desk , tilted back the swivel executive chair and went to sleep . |
| 16 | But it 's probably the sort of house where visitors feel sufficiently at ease to put their feet up on the sofa . |
| 17 | I would sit with her often for a whole hour , she with her feet up on the sofa , resting . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The kitchen , I assume , thought Leonora , and swung her feet up on the sofa , chuckling at the ludicrously large socks . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Then he put his feet up on the bench and snored for ten minutes . |
| 22 | Tamsin puts her feet up on the table and asks why not . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | When the train started the Feldwebel sat down and put his feet up on the seat opposite . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | PEDIGREE Limousin bulls met an unprecedented demand at the annual spring show and sale at Carlisle yesterday , selling to a top of 14,000gn and producing a record average for the sale of £3,450 , £900 up on the year . |
| 27 | This would suggest a turnover of around £330m , 12% up on the year before . |
| 28 | Marion was living in a hut up on the moor . |
| 29 | He did n't bother with the dock or with a stern anchor but , dropping the sails , ran Golden Girl up on the sand . |
| 30 | The girl up on the end of the road was walking round with one . . |