Example sentences of "[verb] up on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solid , castellated , and colonnaded for much of its length , it suddenly takes off into a free-flowing fantasy of spires and spirelets , as if two different architects ' designs had got mixed up on the drawing-board . |
| 2 | A light van drew up on the wharf , and a man got out and dropped a large quantity of cardboard boxes over the side of the wharf onto the deck . |
| 3 | Beyond the moored boats and the fire we drew up on the bank for the night . |
| 4 | Crossing the last barrier , a narrow but fast-flowing river , the rebel army drew up on the plain of Samugarh a few miles from Agra . |
| 5 | Some caterpillars possess the markings of small venomous snakes and , when approached too closely , will rear up on the branch and wave their fake snake-heads at the attacker . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's two years since I last lined up on a grid , ’ Vitor said , ‘ and since then I 've refused to give interviews and avoided all contact with the media . |
| 7 | As the cars lined up on the grid , Andretti on pole , Hunt alongside him , Pete Lyons wrote a wonderful paragraph which said it all : the mechanics drilling holes in Hunt 's visor so that he could see in the mist . |
| 8 | We lined up on the foredeck to give the traditional three cheers for her Majesty at the appropriate moment . |
| 9 | And basically they managed to jump up on the bed unlike yesterday morning where pretended she could n't get up on the bed . |
| 10 | ’ I 'm a loner who likes to curl up on a sofa with a good book , ’ she says . |
| 11 | There was a different rug on the floor but without the fire on it 's much warmer to curl up on a human . |
| 12 | He says Wilfrd Thesiger 's idea of a nice night is to curl up on a rock and eat some fresh camel 's milk . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Leonora chose a brightly coloured paperback novel about the Crusades , and went over to the fireplace to curl up on the sofa . |
| 15 | Oh certainly , certainly , erm boys grow up on the whole fairly secure in the knowledge that they have both work cells , occupational cells and also that they 'll be able to have families . |
| 16 | We 'll tie up on the island and stretch our legs a bit . |
| 17 | Jasper knelt up on the seats with the rest of them to observe out of the window their progress to Kensington High Street . |
| 18 | She gripped the edge of the window sill , seemed to strain up on the window across the small of her back . |
| 19 | Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine . |
| 20 | Airacomet 44–22633 flew out of Edwards in the late 1940s , finally ending up on a target range along with some sister ‘ 59s . |
| 21 | Die Grünen has been described by Petra Kelly as an ‘ anti-party party ’ , and getting into bed with them might be a guarantee of ending up on the floor . |
| 22 | FLOORS Wherever there is water or liquid , there is the danger of it ending up on the floor and causing you to slip . |
| 23 | We try to tackle the problem at all ends — to prevent young people ending up on the streets , to provide a roof over their heads , and to search for long-term solutions . |
| 24 | As a result , they feel themselves not only homeless but in a total existential crisis — ending up on the dossers circuit removes the last residues of respectability . |
| 25 | So , you 'll be ending up on the breadline worse than ever |
| 26 | I know you see which side my fence is buttered , and if I can bring to football the organisational skills that have made me such a big fish in retailing , then Athletico Whaddon need have no fear of ending up on the slab . |
| 27 | There is quite a history of individual countries backing a particular group , taking a particular line , and it all ending up on the battlefield . |
| 28 | Cicely Hamilton commented in the course of a debate with G. K. Chesterton at Queen 's Hall in 1919 : ‘ Do you suppose that forty or fifty years ago a woman would have dared to stand up on a platform and say , without the slightest shame , that she was over thirty and unmarried ? |
| 29 | HP 's software effort for the new servers included endorsement from a veritable who's-who of mainframe software houses , all eager to stand up on the platform and say that their customers were queueing up to leave the IBM mainframe world behind . |
| 30 | It was a large room , totally silent save for the voice of one Sister perched up on a pulpit in the end wall , reading portions of the scriptures . |