Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] up on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 2 | There was a gang of kids playing up on the embankment , just as Preston and William had , junior hangers-on , rookie spear carriers in the terrible Derek Sumter gang which had once ruled the neighbourhood , so far as was tolerated by the greater power of the nans . |
| 3 | Then , as we neared the entrance , a ship came up astern , and she can only have been one of Everard 's sailing barges coming up on the tide . |
| 4 | Blind grain sites showing up on the ears of some cereal crops could trim yields and perhaps downgrade stands intended for seed . |
| 5 | Through the wide-open window floated the lightest of breezes , tangy with the scent of wild herbs growing up on the rugged hills behind the town . |
| 6 | Torrance suffered the jibes and in those early days of his experimentation there were often queues of fellow pros lining up on the practice putting greens of Europe to have a go themselves . |
| 7 | What made things particularly difficult was that I felt I was n't Black enough for my Black colleagues and that white workers picking up on the division used this to their advantage by divide-and-rule tactics . |
| 8 | This has major pedagogic implications , since students can no longer hope to make sense of poems or plays just by reading them carefully , but must spend time in libraries getting up on the historical context . |
| 9 | There was still the warehouse on his left , and a derelict site beyond that , with occupied flats coming up on the right … |
| 10 | So this must be where Marc plots his business deals , she thought , trying not to show too much curiosity about the details flashing up on the several screens against the wall . |
| 11 | It led to a hallway , with stairs going up on the left . |
| 12 | And then three dice , electronic dice are thrown , and you get three numbers showing up on the screen . |
| 13 | When they are contacted by reporters following up on a story , they typically say something equivocally critical about IQ 's heritability , so as to quarantine themselves from controversy and , above all , to protect-themselves from false charges of racism and elitism . |
| 14 | The mood of Bank Holiday reflects that of a nation knowing that war must come , but other films dealt more directly with the storm clouds building up on the other side of the Channel . |
| 15 | The dawn was breaking as the cars rolled off the ferry at North Wall ; there was a sullen , red-streaked sky , with banks of threatening clouds building up on the horizon . |
| 16 | I heard many a rumour in Suffolk pubs of Germans dressed as British soldiers turning up on the shoreline , and I found locals who insisted that Churchill had visited the area in November 1943 and inspected some American bomber bases . |