Example sentences of "[pers pn] up on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ See you up on the hillside . ’
2 Let the wind do the work and pull you up on the board .
3 I 'll pick you up on the way back . ’
4 I know you like hiking because I saw a photo of you in your little bum-freezers , so we 'll take you up on the moors and then call at Harry Ramsden 's for some fish ‘ n ’ chips .
5 I 'll sit you up on the pillows and you 'll be nice and comfy . ’
6 It 's forty years old and will set you back five and a half thousand pounds — but for that you can be sure no-one will dare cut you up on the motorway .
7 ‘ How did you feel , ’ he said , ‘ when the monkey was holding you up on the roof ? ’
8 ‘ I 'll pick you up on the Friday afternoon , though I 'll be in touch before then , ’ he said , and bade her a curt farewell .
9 I may well take you up on the offer . ’
10 Once these images must have excited lust — enough to make someone take the trouble to cut them out and stick them up on the wall ; but after a day or two , or a week or two , the pictures had ceased to arouse , they had become familiar — faded and tattered and oil-stained , almost indistinguishable from the dirt and debris of the rest of the factory .
11 And if if they have children , to take them up on the wall side of the stairs because you know .
12 Would you kindly write your press releases on a sheet of this paper , if you can bear to do this , so that we can pin them up on the wall and we can walk around and see each other 's press releases and this 'll be a good way of actually discussing them , I think .
13 And Jim , when he comes in , they 're both , they 're both all , I 've pr priced them up on the top and er
14 You put them up on the door , they 're on the floor .
15 He gave the women a thirty-second start and picked them up on the northbound carriageway with ease .
16 You can warm them up on the Aga , okay ?
17 When we examine cost , I remind the House that it is not 12 months since we heard a statement from the Dispatch Box that the Government had found £4.5 billion to prop them up on the poll tax .
18 you 'll have to put them up on the ceiling
19 ‘ Why do n't we call them up on the radio … ’
20 Oh did leave them in there perhaps I 've put them up on the shelf .
21 No other home could be found for these cars at short notice , so Cohen 's men were called in with oxy-acetylene torches to break them up on the spot .
22 Cohen 's men broke them up on the spot .
23 He opened the rear door and folded Goldman on to the seat ; his legs trailed into the road and Elliott tucked them up on the seat .
24 He picked up his glasses and rubbed them up on the tablecloth .
25 Put them up on the locker , will you ?
26 Pick me up on the way .
27 That still messes me up on the guitar . ’
28 And erm she phoned me up on the Sunday .
29 Aye just , if the two of yous get me up on the settee I 'll be alright , me and her ah ah ah ah !
30 And he brought this up about the units I had and he he rang me up on the Friday night is n't it ?
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