Example sentences of "and [verb] up on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of those that did turn up at their parish churches , a good number behaved in a manner that was anything but reverential : talking , joking , spitting , arguing , and catching up on lost sleep . |
| 2 | Am I right in saying Women 's Institute , do n't they go round and checking up on sorry erm footpaths ? |
| 3 | On the product front — and picking up on some of the work it did for ACE — the company says an Intel Corp P5-specific SCO Unix kernel is a possibility . |
| 4 | When Russell pulled up , the two White Mountain Apaches with him slowed to a walk and came up on either side of him . |
| 5 | From the bridge there is a rack curving right ; deep flow starts on the right and ends up on left then there is steady flow curving round a long left bend for ½ mile to S bend left , right , left , all grade I/II rock gardens with plenty of water and routes . |
| 6 | you can get th I 've seen people spend sort of quite a few minutes going round in circles and give up on that when they 're nearly at the answer . |
| 7 | The rest of us use this time to make or mend kit , and to read up on possible areas to visit come the Spring . |
| 8 | Make good use of your local needle exchange or chemist and stock up on new works . |
| 9 | The first thing she would do , she decided , was take a walk into the little village and stock up on some foodstuffs . |
| 10 | If the variometer is fluctuating and reading up on one side of the circle and down a little on the other , the probability is that the glider is not climbing at all but is just drifting further down wind . |
| 11 | ‘ I am aware of these people who are professionally famous and turn up on all these clever panel shows , but I think Have I Got News For You is watched by a really wide spectrum of people and that is a big part of its appeal . |
| 12 | Miguel saw that he was getting nowhere , and gave up on that topic . |
| 13 | The article is written by Dr Rafael Roncagliolo of the Latin American Institute ( IPAL ) in Peru , and follows up on some of the convictions expressed at a meeting of Latin American communicators which was organised by IPAL and WACC last year . |
| 14 | The deal structuring stage should draw together all the information now available about the target ( including the results of the key features review and the purchaser 's assessment of possible synergies and cost savings ) with a view to establishing the most efficient structure for the proposed transaction and firming up on any price expectations already communicated to the vendors . |
| 15 | I tested a few planks carefully with the weight of my hand , then retreated and stood up on safer ground . |