Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cars propped up on bricks . |
| 2 | The vast constructions built up on slave labour by the Ancient Egyptians or Romans were therefore not possible in Romanesque Europe . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And in one experiment rats were exposed throughout infancy to the music of either Mozart or Schoenberg and then given musical preference tests in adulthood ( with the result that animals brought up on Mozart showed a definite preference for that music , whereas the Schoenberg-reared group gave no indication of a hankering after the familiar music ! ) . |
| 5 | Uncle Wullie 's uncles and great-uncles long since departed Clydeside for the New World ‘ over the pond ’ and many times visited for holidays , with maple leaf tea-towels pinned up on Govan kitchen walls to prove it . |
| 6 | ‘ For kids brought up on rock , Sinatra is torture . |
| 7 | I may look like a demure little wife who sits at home minding the house , but darling , I could tell you one or two things that would make your ears stand up on end . ’ |
| 8 | They navigated by the , by the ley lines , that 's why you find monuments built up on hills so they could stand in the middle of the of nowhere and they could see a , they could either feel it through their feet |
| 9 | Such demands for cash will push up interest rates by ½%; or more , unless governments tighten up on spending — which almost inevitably means cutting back even more drastically on social services … |
| 10 | Happily , at the time of going to print the craze is dying a death , as consumers realise that £500 is a lot to pay for something you carry about on one shoulder , and that as a social status symbol it is as impressive as a 1979 Cortina without wheels propped up on bricks . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Dunston , still on the fringe of the race , are hoping their players avoid injuries in their Sunday football commitments , as Sunday teams catch up on matches . |
| 13 | Sealdah is less than half a mile from the Bowbazaar district , where a cache of explosives blew up on Wednesday , killing at least 66 people . |
| 14 | Etna-watchers slip up on lava flow |
| 15 | Most of these books are sold from stalls set up on pavements , in public squares and near metro stations in Moscow , St Petersburg and elsewhere . |
| 16 | There was nothing to do , or demanding to be done , but hang around ; to visit the market where gringos stoked up on alpaca jerseys much cheaper than in Cuzco . |
| 17 | They sometimes seem more concerned to punish those whose products end up on rubbish heaps than to encourage sensible behaviour . |
| 18 | ‘ He asked some girls to go up on stage and give him a kiss , and just for a joke I did . |
| 19 | Hodai came up on Burun 's other side . |
| 20 | The Scottish army marched to relieve Berwick and encountered the English forces drawn up on Halidon Hill , which lies about two miles north-west of the town and commands all approaches to it from the north . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I do n't think we 'd get many members turning up on Sunday . |
| 23 | She 'ad t'backbone ti go up on ti t'moor in a blizzard ti find 'im , while you were willing ti let 'im lie up yonder and freeze ti death . ’ |
| 24 | Prices went up on April 2 by an average 60 per cent . |
| 25 | Most of the strikers gave up on April 27th . |
| 26 | It was held , appropriately , on the first day of Michaelmas when , in medieval times , pigs were traditionally turned out into the woods to fatten up on acorns . |
| 27 | Blufton 's study matched the rest of the castle in its eclecticism — an enormous library desk strewn with papers , tin soldiers and teddy bears propped up on shelves , the walls lined with Victorian prints and paintings . |
| 28 | Even Mahmoud , however , could not get them to work in the afternoons and he too , like Owen , normally used the afternoons to catch up on desk work and reading . |
| 29 | The overhaul of trams to catch up on wartime neglect was taking longer than anticipated and it was decided that Purley depôt , still standing out of use , should be cleared of the war damaged cars collecting dust in its interior and be brought back into use as an annexe to Charlton Works where painting and certain other work could be undertaken . |
| 30 | ‘ I had n't expected the papers to pick up on Thomas 's birth , ’ she went on , ‘ but when they did and when it was taken for granted that he was Simon 's I let that be , too . ’ |