Example sentences of "he [verb] up on [art] " in BNC.

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1 We went swimming with Jonathan the other night and he got up on the top board and sort of and he was sort of like hanging on to the bar like this looking over
2 ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double .
3 He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack .
4 He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers .
5 Old Hewlett-Packard Co hands say that back in their day Lew Platt never looked to be a contender for the presidency : they are gratified to see him elevated since he came up on the Unix side and wonder how much should be read into that .
6 But anyway , he came up on the Monday er sorry , on the Friday when they was paying out , he said , Which chappie paid you ?
7 He came up on the train for a few days , very nervous , wearing his best suit .
8 The phone kept ringing and no one there , and then he turned up on the doorstep .
9 It must have been quite a shock when he turned up on the doorstep . ’
10 ‘ Except those missing forty-eight hours before he showed up on a roadside , ’ said Morton Stannard .
11 He threw up on the floor , beer mixed with bile steaming in the cold .
12 Then he climbed up on the rail and swung muscularly from the butt of one of the loading extensors .
13 Well he climbed up on the roof and he came down again and whatever he done , there was nothing wrong with the roof for a start
14 You know , he , he looms up on the horse , you know
15 But Susan Einzig had a more significant , also more complex , place in his life : though to all appearances she and Minton were a couple , he used her as a decoy to attract into their orbit , through her role as the attractive elder woman , keen on dancing and having a good time , the lusty heterosexual students whose company Minton needed and whom , when rebuffed by Susan , he scooped up on the rebound , with mocking asides about the inadequacy of women .
16 He pulled up on the hard shoulder , switched off and got out .
17 On the way back he pulled up on the side of the road and just said mum and him could n't live together any more . ’
18 ‘ Was he giving up on the case ? ’
19 He went up on the left of me , sliced back in front of my car and dived at the inside of Niki from way too far back …
20 So anyway , I said to her the week before last when he went up on the Sunday , I said go up there and say to her
21 My old mate , Malc Bassford , had 3 lb next to me — he is definitely getting better as that is his best weight since he bagged up on the River Cam 20 years ago .
22 Small and unceasingly chirpy , he grew up on the central coast , near Taree , one of 10 children of the manager of Burrell Creek 's post office and general store , which Johnny himself ended up managing .
23 ‘ Apparently you ca n't miss , but only Brian Harley has got one so far , and this is mainly why he cleaned up on the Safari circuit .
24 ‘ And anyway , how did he get up on the roof ? ’
25 So the luxury home in New England remains empty — until he winds up on a one night stand with vivacious manipulator Gwen , ( Goldie Hawn ) .
26 Had he come up on the bus with us from Bishop Auckland to Willington , we 'd probably have asked for one and a half .
27 The fall seemed to bring Liam to his senses and he sat up on the road wondering where he was .
28 He sat up on the bench and pulled on the robe .
29 He sat up on the chair by the fire .
30 He sat up on the bed , and she saw him wince .
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