Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] up on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura cried , struggling to sit up on the wide leather rear seat of the large car , where she had been so unceremoniously tossed only a moment before . |
| 2 | ‘ Now that we only have the one line , we want to catch up on the backlog of maintenance and repairs . |
| 3 | He wanted to roar out James 's name , his own name , to scream for help , he tried to pull up on the sill but his fingers scrabbled uselessly and he dropped back . |
| 4 | What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education . |
| 5 | However , things are apparently still up in the air and OEMs are expected to gang up on the doorstep to get their two cents in . |
| 6 | It 's not something the average student would expect to come up on the sylabus and Katharine 's still recovering from the shock . |
| 7 | She gripped the edge of the window sill , seemed to strain up on the window across the small of her back . |
| 8 | This Spotlight reports on a survey of 94 adults ( defined as people aged 20 or over ) who fell into this category and looks at what — if anything — providers might do to pick up on the original expression of interest . |
| 9 | San Jose , California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp claims performance leadership in the Sparc world with its superscalar HyperSparc , but has been less than successful in gaining design wins against the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc — and Cypress has now decided to give up on the unequal struggle . |
| 10 | San Jose , California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp claims performance leadership in the Sparc world with its superscalar HyperSparc , but has been less than successful in gaining design wins against the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc — and Cypress has now decided to give up on the unequal struggle . |
| 11 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 12 | This is not going to disappear overnight , it 's going to affect her for a long time , and she 's never going to catch up on the work that she 's missed over the last couple of months by having seven teachers in six weeks . |
| 13 | The employer said it had been attempting to tighten up on the very widespread practice of employees going for tea immediately after clocking on . |
| 14 | I 'd just really like to pick up on the employment argument . |
| 15 | did n't realize that half the family was going to end up on the dole did we ? |
| 16 | Glad to hear they are not going to end up on the table . |
| 17 | It does n't know for certain , so it simply doubles whatever free space it thinks is left — after all the software is n't psychic and ca n't know what files are going to wind up on the hard disk . |
| 18 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 19 | Traffic was beginning to build up on the main road which bypassed Axe , and the sound of one particular car engine could be heard , becoming steadily louder as it approached her part of the lane . |
| 20 | The night before Nenna and her two daughters were due to leave England , storm weather began to blow up on the Reach . |
| 21 | He could see the River Thames below with the new high-rise housing blocks already beginning to show up on the skyline . |
| 22 | John McLeish was in his office , Saturday or no Saturday , telling himself he needed to catch up on the paperwork . |
| 23 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 24 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 25 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 26 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 27 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 28 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 29 | The water seems to dry up on the road without getting too far . |
| 30 | Add to these two schizophrenic cats , two bears with what look like severe cases of acne , and several reindeer who are just asking to end up on the wrong side of a roast dinner . |