Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] up on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a matter of fact , I came up on deck to get my first glimpse of the island . |
| 2 | ‘ No , ’ he said with a grin , ‘ today I turned up on time . ’ |
| 3 | There was a local Patels open and doing good business at the end of the street , and I stocked up on orange juice , a couple of meat pies and a packet of chocolate biscuits . |
| 4 | Refreshed , I went up on deck and looked at the waves . |
| 5 | Next , I went up on deck . |
| 6 | I helped myself , and when I had finished , I went up on deck and began sorting out the rigging . |
| 7 | Well , I suppose the Old Harry Rocks do bear a slight resemblance to the Needles , but I forgave him when I went up on deck and saw that Vigilant 's motor boat was following the yacht into Poole and had confirmed our proper position with Southampton . |
| 8 | ‘ I grew up on clay courts in my hometown of Diezma-Gradada . |
| 9 | It is , I slipped up on chess one |
| 10 | Sometimes it would be Bessie , Billie , names we 'd all heard before and knew about ; her favourite fistful , the one she would recite just before she got up on stage , was Mae , Marie , Maria , Anna Mae B , La Miss , Marian … |
| 11 | It 's my humble belief you only did it to hurt me , oh yes , spit on the bourgeois , épater the middleclass , oh aye , get your own back on Mr Grant and me for our fitted carpets and crinoline toiletroll covers when you grew up on berr linoleum in a singelenn' in Bridgeton . |
| 12 | He spouted art and she wound up on ice . |
| 13 | There had been partisans hidden up there during the war , before you … but now only the shepherds used the long-abandoned houses and they went up on foot with their flocks . |
| 14 | He rose up on tiptoe , looking round for James , Allan , and the rest . |
| 15 | He climbed up on stage . |
| 16 | When Alexei Sultanov , a nineteen-year-old from the USSR , was finally declared the winner , he rushed up on stage and lifted his trophy over his head and yipped with glee and the people of Fort Worth stood and clapped as if they had been seized with divine ecstasy . |
| 17 | Its body was hot and dry and the coat had lost its black lustre , so it stood up on end , pale brown and rumpled . |