Example sentences of "[vb past] up on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A trained work elephant then moved up on either side , rather like tugs docking a ship . |
| 2 | I understand that other roads built up on one side only have been granted 30 mph speed limits . |
| 3 | I did n't discover the first snail or the first nettle that sprouted up on this planet . |
| 4 | Even her voice was different and he came up on one elbow to look into her face , seeing all the fire die out of her . |
| 5 | When Russell pulled up , the two White Mountain Apaches with him slowed to a walk and came up on either side of him . |
| 6 | On collecting these names I began to wonder whether I was being taken in but so many came up on independent lists that the villagers sent in that I am sure they are authentic . |
| 7 | Last week Kathleen Turner and Joan Collins turned up on different nights to see the show at the Aldwych Theatre . |
| 8 | Yes , Mr Chairman , I , erm , I , I , I do appreciate that erm , I 've been invited through Committee er , to go through what I do represent er , the building project erm , on behalf of the economic development , because as you all know , I 'm of course on the economic development before , but er , in the past I 've found that that I have er been , shall we say , relieved of my positions on other er , position , erm , unknownst to myself , and of course I have er , actually turned up on these planning functions and been there , and to me in the past , I have always found that if one is going to be missed one must then , one 's either asked if he wishes to continue , if he 's been doing his job properly , if he does n't do his job properly then it 's only right to replace him . |
| 9 | He was scornful , too , of the humanitarian-aid programme run for the contras by the State Department through the NHAO , which Owen familiarly called the ‘ no-way , no-how ’ and the ‘ no-hope programme ’ ; the State Department itself turned up on local code-sheets as ‘ wimps ’ , the CIA as ‘ assholes ’ , the portly Shultz as ‘ Nancy ’ . |
| 10 | This morning for instance the Scottish executive of the people 's party will have an opportunity to examine the fruits of some of the labours of the Scottish Trades Union Congress , which has been functioning as the honest broker following the swiftly evaporating euphoria of the 25,000 souls who turned up on 12 December . |
| 11 | Then , after a whispered word with one of the cousins , Angel and he galloped up on either side of her and neatly lifted her off the little black mare . |
| 12 | Section 119 provides that a company if so authorised by its articles may : ( a ) make arrangements on an issue of shares for a difference between shareholders in the amounts or times of payments of calls ; ( b ) accept the whole or part of the amount remaining unpaid although it has not been called up ; or ( c ) pay a dividend in proportion to the amount paid up on each share where a larger amount is paid up on some shares than on others . |
| 13 | He got up on one elbow . |
| 14 | A few hundred yards further on , though , venerable stone walls sprang up on either side and we were suddenly in a picture-book Cotswold village tucked away out of sight in the ignoble fringes of the city . |
| 15 | The campus buildings are based around five squares raised up on concrete stilts which were officially known as podia . |
| 16 | The bedside lamp snapped on and she turned to see Fernando , raised up on one elbow , gazing at her . |
| 17 | The huddle of noisy stalls in the back streets were a clamour of life and colour , selling diamanté , silk ribbons , radios , clothes , dead fish sliced up on cold slabs , snakes split down the middle , innards steaming on the bloodied stone floors , live birds in cages , killed with a hammer then plucked and sold , and thousand-year-old eggs streaked black and white with gaudy orange centres . |
| 18 | Theatre Hung up on toxic shocks Jean Cocteau meets Miles Davis in Robert Lepage 's solo show . |
| 19 | Brad Pitt stars as Johnny , a hipster idiot hung up on Fifties Kitsch who wanders incongruently through a contemporary bombscape filled with symbolic rubble and fetishised meaninglessness . |
| 20 | East Germany 's slender claim to legitimacy rests above all on the fraudulent implication that it is the good non-Nazi , never-Nazi Germany , any Nazi-supporters having joined the four million renegades whose Westward migration almost drained East Germany dry before the Wall went up on 13 August 1961 . |
| 21 | Having reached the end it went up on one wing , round through 180 ° in the space of fifty metres , and plummetted out of the sky on to the tarmac . |
| 22 | ‘ I grew up on this train , eh ? |
| 23 | ‘ I grew up on these stories . |
| 24 | If she eased up on this will for just a moment , love would fly away like a bird released from its cage . |
| 25 | Miguel saw that he was getting nowhere , and gave up on that topic . |
| 26 | I slipped up on that chess one I got the black and white one |
| 27 | Jock set up an old aircraft wing with a tin of petrol inside to simulate a fuel tank , which he propped up on some oil drums . |
| 28 | He leaned up on one elbow to gaze down at her and instead of Ruth feeling a rush of panic she felt incredibly calm . |
| 29 | Her eyes flying open , Polly reared up on one elbow . |
| 30 | They found Faltour 's Lane and turned into the dirty refuse-filled alleyway , the daylight almost blocked out by the overhanging gables of the houses which reared up on either side . |