Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] up on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could hear a car drawing up on the drive outside . |
| 2 | It occurred to him that being on foot was probably an advantage ; a car drawing up on the gravel would be heard from the house . |
| 3 | I went in and there 's Heidi oh well I 've just got all the script coming up on the screen and I 've just got so and so for you and I |
| 4 | One possible event being planned involves children from the village lining up on the pavement next to the road to highlight how many of them are at risk from traffic that goes through the village every day . |
| 5 | It 's fun to see the no-nonsense , motor-bike-riding heroine beating up on the men in true fantasy-heroic style , but her attempts to encourage her young protege in self-defence end in disaster , making the messages it gives out totally confused and its solutions seeming no more realistic than Ms 45 storing her rapist in the fridge and blowing male scum off the street . |
| 6 | She wished there was a window in front , so she could see Midnight sitting up on the driver 's seat beside Hawkins . |
| 7 | Although the country may have lost its strategic significance with the collapse of the Soviet Union , Washington is nevertheless concerned at the possibility of an unstable radical Islamic state growing up on the borders of the former Soviet Central Asia . |
| 8 | That 's Pen-y-ghent , that 's Ingleborough and this is Whernside coming up on the left , but first the viaduct at Ribblehead . |
| 9 | Anne saw her own coat hanging up on the rack with the others . |
| 10 | How many tucks can any one needle accept without the whole thing piling up on the needles and jamming the carriages ? |
| 11 | We 've got a hearing coming up on the sixteenth of July in |
| 12 | There was still perhaps three-quarters of an hour of daylight left , but the sun was just glimpses of coppery gold between vast castles of cloud stacking up on the horizon . |
| 13 | We had a thrill surfing up on the beach and clambered out of the dinghy , damp but safe . |