Example sentences of "[vb base] up on [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This stressed-out poor performer is motivated by the fear that he or she is highly disposable , and that if they ease up on their workload the axe will fall . |
| 2 | I 'll speak to Corosini , explain the mistake and speak up on your behalf . |
| 3 | ‘ Read up on your history , Miss Browne — with an ‘ E ’ . ’ |
| 4 | Indeed whole parishes sometimes , I 'm sorry to say , gang up on their clergy . |
| 5 | NEVER give up on your dreams — the line comes from a book of poems that coach Tommy Boyle sent to Yvonne Murray in the wake of the Musselburgh runner 's failure at last year 's Olympics . |
| 6 | and every morning , he 's a , jump up on my chair . |
| 7 | The amount of mud you pick up on your tyres and such like , it makes it treacherous . |
| 8 | Children pick up on our worries and stress , so try to find out what 's bothering her and take time to reassure her . |
| 9 | Impressive though he undoubtedly was , if you analyse his career , all he did was put make up on his face and pretend to be somebody else . |
| 10 | I get up on my skates and dance to my left , in exactly the style I learned from him 25 years before . |
| 11 | Beginner bird watchers brush up on their identification of British ducks , geese and swans in the European pen with borrowed binoculars ; the more advanced tackle the two hundred foreign species ; research students arrive from Universities to write theses . |
| 12 | When asked about the ‘ meaning ’ of his Foundation cycle , he was apt to burst into a song which he had adapted from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera , Patience : ‘ Success is not a mystery , just brush up on your history , and borrow day by day/ Take an Empire that was Roman , and you 'll find it is at home in/ All the starry Milky Way . ’ |
| 13 | Go up on her roof and pour boiling oil down ! ’ |
| 14 | His hackles go up on his shoulders , as a wolf 's would , when he hears the Hunter . |
| 15 | You would n't believe the things that turn up on our bill . |
| 16 | Industry observers and rival candle manufacturers are withholding judgement on whether the new management will transform Price 's into a viable company , or end up on their faces in a puddle of waxy goo . |
| 17 | The man with his ar his hands up in the air walked towards us a few paces and then P C ordered him to go down onto his knees slowly and then consequently end up on his chest with his arms outstretched . |
| 18 | If I had a swelling like that come up on my ankle I 'd say right go to the doctors . |
| 19 | Standing with heels together , breathe in through your nose and come up on your toes at the same time . |
| 20 | Check up on your health |