Example sentences of "up on a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hours later Mr Elton 's body was washed up on a beach at Climping , two miles away . |
| 2 | They encourage the children to imagine what it 's like to be a character in the play — one of two twins who are separated in a shipwreck and thrown up on a beach on a strange island . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel I should say that if I had to get washed up on a beach minus my memory I was lucky the beach was yours , Dr Vaughan . ’ |
| 4 | POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months . |
| 5 | Lisa Benner — police believe that her body has been washed up on a beach in Kent |
| 6 | A BODY found washed up on a beach in Kent has been confirmed as that of missing Essex woman Lisa Benner . |
| 7 | As in so many other fields of English law , the occasions on which recovery is permitted have been built up on a case by case basis . |
| 8 | the ship 's radio officer was catching up on a backlog of communications ; some outgoing messages from passengers took precedence over ice warnings |
| 9 | Corbett then cleaned his boots , washed , changed his tunic and ravenously ate the bread and cheese brought up on a platter by an aged lay sister . |
| 10 | But anyway we had this one projector which I had winkled out of this friend of mine , and we stuck it up on a couple of stools and hung some sheets up behind the corner of the room which served as a stage , and with some incense burning in the corner an atmosphere was created . |
| 11 | Some people prefer to hold the script ; others like to read off a lectern , which can be simply a tray propped up on a couple of books . |
| 12 | I just wanted to erm pick up on a couple of points that er people have made in the course of a and responses I think to my er opening statement . |
| 13 | It 's just to pick you up on a couple of points . |
| 14 | Well , perhaps I can say pick up on a couple of points in the discussion . |
| 15 | The whole idea of erm a fax is to get the thing there quickly is n't it ? if it 's sort of sitting up on a desk for three days before they bring it down . |
| 16 | There are still traces of the original area — the ruined synagogue now being restored , old signs up on a wall of the cloth factories of the past and , surprisingly , a new kosher shop and restaurant . |
| 17 | I have seen two crows gang up on a mallard with a brood of young , and , while one bird tormented the duck into chasing it , the other sneaked in and made off with a still struggling duckling in its beak . |
| 18 | His writings were later able to save a model child , the philosopher John Stuart Mill , who had been brought up on a system of intensive reading and deprived of the ‘ culture of the feelings ’ . |
| 19 | She jumped up on a branch of a tree . |
| 20 | The rental sector meanwhile provides — along with all the box-office successes which nowadays transfer to tape within a few months and probably need no further introduction — the chance to catch up on a variety of ( often more deserving ) movies which have been less widely seen in cinemas here . |
| 21 | There is evidence that the present east gable is a replacement , made very soon , for another , likewise with a battle , which seems then to have been set up on a base in the sanctuary , its centre akroterion also . |
| 22 | High up on a ledge above a window , she found what she knew Billy Gorman would never give her : the keys to the gun room at Riverstown . |
| 23 | ’ I 'm a loner who likes to curl up on a sofa with a good book , ’ she says . |
| 24 | Baboons will gang up on a leopard in a similar way , although this is a risky venture . |
| 25 | Knot the corners of the cloth , hang it up on a hook with the basin underneath to catch the whey . |
| 26 | Hung him up on a hook like a piece of meat . ’ |
| 27 | At last I was up on a level with him . |
| 28 | He ended up on a drip in the Princess Margaret hospital . |
| 29 | Lucy had curled up on a pile of old throwouts in the corner of the Wardrobe department , and had pulled some of them over herself like a burrowing animal . |
| 30 | Got held up on a bit of business . ’ |