Example sentences of "[noun pl] up on the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Pete had arranged himself in the passenger seat so that he could get his feet up on the dashboard . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Tammuz threw himself into a chair and put his feet up on the edge of his workstation . |
| 8 | Feet up on the fender , paper on the floor , |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I swung my feet up on the desk and lay back in the chair . |
| 11 | He put his feet up on the desk , tilted back the swivel executive chair and went to sleep . |
| 12 | But it 's probably the sort of house where visitors feel sufficiently at ease to put their feet up on the sofa . |
| 13 | I would sit with her often for a whole hour , she with her feet up on the sofa , resting . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The kitchen , I assume , thought Leonora , and swung her feet up on the sofa , chuckling at the ludicrously large socks . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Then he put his feet up on the bench and snored for ten minutes . |
| 18 | Tamsin puts her feet up on the table and asks why not . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When the train started the Feldwebel sat down and put his feet up on the seat opposite . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Thirteen thousand feet up on the shores of Lake Titicaca . |
| 23 | HP PerfRX , a system performance monitoring tool is now available for OpenView , priced at £5,000 , and HP is also putting its backup and print management applications up on the environment . |
| 24 | He 'd spent days up on the cliff behind the quarry , watching them take off . |
| 25 | And apparently these other lads further down , to the tune of about a hundred and fifty yards , had all lifted the boards up on the belt and so all their slack and that was coming to me . |
| 26 | At a lower camp expedition leader Chris Bonington — who had retreated exhausted after reaching 26,000 feet — monitored the progress of the two dark specs up on the ridge . |
| 27 | It will offer direct marketing and mail programmes ; hold marketing conferences , seminars and special promotions ; provide free listings in catalogues seen by customers ; and put their products up on the HP LaserPro CD-ROM for software marketing which is delivered with every Hewlett-Packard workstation . |
| 28 | Now when you go through most of the things that you will see you can touch , but there are things up on the shelves at the sides and we put them there for special reasons , usually cos they 're very heavy or cos they might break easily . |
| 29 | Was it a good decision to airfreight an order because we 'd messed things up on the plant ? ’ |
| 30 | I duly went along to see him and , in the first room in which he received me , I noticed one or two small Popovas up on the wall . |