Example sentences of "[vb pp] up on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the coffin was lifted up on the shoulders of the men , Carmella stood and reached out her hand to touch its wood at Joey 's shoulder . |
| 2 | You no doubt have picked up on the typos etc. but it is sometimes useful to have another ‘ eye ’ . |
| 3 | Best of all , he tells of the people caught up on the fringes of small wars , and finds in their resilience the small mercies of his title . |
| 4 | Basrah had a hard war , first by being caught up on the fringes of routine military engagements and later by itself becoming a direct target for bombardment . |
| 5 | But here was a youth so far ahead of his time that if he had turned up on the streets of London sixty or seventy years later , he would still have been recognised as a sure sign of an alarmingly unrivalled degeneration among the young . |
| 6 | Green stars are allocated at these shows and are made up on a points basis . |
| 7 | Some of those problems had already shown up on the print-outs , let alone from the drivers . |
| 8 | The " full recovery plan " would set aside 5.4 million acres , at a cost of 32,000 jobs in the timber industry : an alternative drawn up on the instructions of Interior Secretary Manual Lujan would protect 2.8 million acres but result in the loss of 15,000 logging jobs . |
| 9 | It seemed that NoS was going to be the first to tap the huge reservoir of people who had given up on the papers altogether . |
| 10 | ‘ I have n't completely given up on the Steinbergers , though . |
| 11 | Elizabeth was propped up on the pillows , with the baby lying in the cradle by the bed . |
| 12 | A pyjama-clad Vice-Admiral Hawkins , propped up on the pillows of his bunk , glowered at the message in his hand and passed it across to Denholm . |
| 13 | He was now studying the crayoned pictures of the nativity by local children which were taped up on the pillars . |
| 14 | ‘ I was thinking that whenever I 've been into a student 's flat there was a different atmosphere … a lot of things pinned up on the walls , for instance posters mostly … ’ |
| 15 | The strategy which controls the frequency , duration and destination is usually set up on a systems availability base rather than being controlled by the quantity of data to be transferred and its " design delay " costs . |
| 16 | The press played down these reverses , and they paled into insignificance when in spring 1943 word spread that a prisoner of-war camp was going to be set up on the outskirts of Fontanellato . |
| 17 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 18 | His family background was humble but he had been brought up on the writings of Beatrice and Sidney Webb and the philosophies of George Bernard Shaw . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , that — I , er — got cut up on the rocks canoeing , Matron . |
| 20 | I then twist the plate forty five degrees and then keep doing that and Paul , can you see the ink taken up on the grooves there ? |
| 21 | The current crop of presenters lined up on the steps of the same church outside Broadcasting House where the original team — Terry Wogan , Bob Holness , Jimmy Young and all — had posed exactly a quarter of a century before . |
| 22 | Get down you 're not allowed up on the cushions hairs . |
| 23 | ‘ Only this jumpsuit 's going through at the arse and the bellbottoms are getting well chewed up on the pedals . ’ |
| 24 | The goods to he sold had been piled up on the stairs where once " the possessions " had been piled ; bottles of jam and honey , heaps of hermetically sealed provisions , bottles of wine , cakes of chocolate pliable with the heat , tins of biscuits and even a few mouldy hams had been stacked against the splintered stumps which were all that now remained of the banisters Fleury had found so elegant the first evening he had entered the Residency . |
| 25 | Great thicknesses of pumice and ash had piled up on the slopes of Vesuvius above Herculaneum , and this loose material very rapidly became saturated by torrential rainstorms which may have been triggered by the eruption cloud itself : the dust particles acting as nuclei on which water vapour could condense to form droplets . |
| 26 | All round there are No Smoking signs strung up on the fences . |
| 27 | Just shoved up on the shelves with no order or reason . |
| 28 | The drays and bullocks Stephen had sent from Yarrundi eventually arrived on 27 September , the ‘ tent was struck ’ where Gould 's men had encamped outside town with all the provisions , and was loaded up on the carts for the long , slow haul back to the reaches of the Upper Hunter . |