Example sentences of "[v-ing] up on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Die Grünen has been described by Petra Kelly as an ‘ anti-party party ’ , and getting into bed with them might be a guarantee of ending up on the floor . |
| 2 | FLOORS Wherever there is water or liquid , there is the danger of it ending up on the floor and causing you to slip . |
| 3 | So , you 'll be ending up on the breadline worse than ever |
| 4 | I know you see which side my fence is buttered , and if I can bring to football the organisational skills that have made me such a big fish in retailing , then Athletico Whaddon need have no fear of ending up on the slab . |
| 5 | There is quite a history of individual countries backing a particular group , taking a particular line , and it all ending up on the battlefield . |
| 6 | All the computers were cracking up on the factory floor this morning . ’ |
| 7 | Out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw a white butterfly — but it was the white pattern on the tail of an adult , checking up on the brood . |
| 8 | He was here checking up on the search for Terry Place . |
| 9 | Having been made to look stupid , he let us go without even checking up on the tax or the tyre . |
| 10 | It 's debatable whether PGA is the best golf game , but it 's certainly the easiest to get into without the fuss of reading pages of instructions and swatting up on the physics of the humble golf ball . |
| 11 | This in turn means swotting up on the subject , going on fact-finding missions and meeting politicians and organisers . |
| 12 | This is when the serious business begins … swotting up on the opposition for the 1992 University Boat Race . |
| 13 | What made things particularly difficult was that I felt I was n't Black enough for my Black colleagues and that white workers picking up on the division used this to their advantage by divide-and-rule tactics . |
| 14 | How is he to measure it against ‘ Look before you leap ’ , ‘ Care for your parents ’ , and such other imperatives as he has been picking up on the way ? |
| 15 | The third one is the , this book is pushing down on the table and the table is pushing up on the book . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Torrance suffered the jibes and in those early days of his experimentation there were often queues of fellow pros lining up on the practice putting greens of Europe to have a go themselves . |
| 18 | She began by waking up on the tail-end of absorbing conversations with the white-robed monk who sat on the chair beside her , and it was n't long before the discussions became a full-time activity . |
| 19 | They chuck all these people out of mental hospitals on the excuse that everyone in the community is spontaneously going to start looking after them — and surprise , surprise , they start turning up on the night shelter circuit . |
| 20 | I heard many a rumour in Suffolk pubs of Germans dressed as British soldiers turning up on the shoreline , and I found locals who insisted that Churchill had visited the area in November 1943 and inspected some American bomber bases . |
| 21 | Mr Hann : ‘ You can still have as simple a system as the tanker going to and from the store , parking up on the headland , connecting up and then injecting . |
| 22 | I mean , it 's only going up on the wall with those three others . |
| 23 | Going up on the board outside ? |
| 24 | The women had got into the way of going up on the deck every evening . |
| 25 | The time I went before that , I got erm , like a frostbitten thumb , because I was going up on the chair lift , and er , I dropped one of my gloves , and it was quite a cold day , so by the time I 'd got to the top , and skied all the way back down , and then down the road going back to try and find me gloves , because I had borrowed them from a friend , |
| 26 | ‘ Why , going up on the beam instead of you . ’ |
| 27 | It led to a hallway , with stairs going up on the left . |
| 28 | I mean , you could see it going up on the hill above you . |
| 29 | Darley 's mount Starica stumbled on a path as the six runners in the Thorne Maiden Fillies Stakes , won by 11–2 chance Bella Parkes , were pulling up on the bend past the stands . |
| 30 | Wondering what would happen I tried pulling up on the boom as I went into a turn . |