Example sentences of "up on a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let the samples dry thoroughly , then tack them up on a wall and note the differences . |
| 2 | Cicely Hamilton commented in the course of a debate with G. K. Chesterton at Queen 's Hall in 1919 : ‘ Do you suppose that forty or fifty years ago a woman would have dared to stand up on a platform and say , without the slightest shame , that she was over thirty and unmarried ? |
| 3 | Actually the last time I was stood up on a platform and did this was in front of erm a S G T congress in Dieppe and I tell you I had to do it in French , and it was much more difficult so I 'm hoping this one will go smoothly , but I , what I 'd really like to do is begin with is offer you erm delegates and platform both , a very very warm welcome from the trade union movement in Portsmouth . |
| 4 | It 's easy and it would have been easy for me to get up on a platform or to go into the department and say , look lads , you know , we feel that you 're justified in walking out the door . |
| 5 | It was precisely this analysis of how certain expressions lower down in the tree thus fell within the scope of others higher up on a branch that launched modern logic on its powerful and sophisticated account of logical relations among sentences . |
| 6 | The Argentines were lined up on a cliff and their riddled bodies toppled into a mass grave below , he claims . |
| 7 | Two , two or three week 's running Jenny came up on a weekend and brought us a bar of chocolate each |
| 8 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 9 | And just as everybody who looked to that serpent on the pole was healed , so I am gon na be lifted up on a cross and everybody who looks in faith to me , and in obedience receives my gift of forgiveness , they will be saved ! |
| 10 | Palo Alto , California-based Legato Systems Inc has agreed to provide its Transport Independent Remote Procedure Call tool kit to Novell Inc in exchange for Novell 's local network Workplace TCP/IP stack — the Novell product will be bundled with Legato 's Networker in its ClientPak II configuration and users with MS-DOS clients on a NetWare local network will be able to do on-demand back-up of MS-DOS and Unix applications by backing them up on a Unix or NetWare server configured with TCP/IP ; IBM has already licensed NetWorker for marketing to its RS/6000 customers . |
| 11 | He says Wilfrd Thesiger 's idea of a nice night is to curl up on a rock and eat some fresh camel 's milk . |
| 12 | Peter Simpkins , who made the find , said : ‘ It showed up on a screen and all we had to do was dig it up . ’ |
| 13 | You go up on a step and then you 've got another pond . |
| 14 | The agreement , like those that had preceded it , envisaged a directly elected presidency , and a bicameral legislature made up on a republican and a population basis , respectively ; central authority would be limited to those spheres of activity that had been specifically delegated by the members of the union . |
| 15 | On another occasion Ricky knocked Minton out on the platform of the Underground , afterwards propping him up on a bench until he recovered sufficiently to be walked home . |
| 16 | Well usually cos I got my feet up on a bench and I ca n't reach keyboard so |
| 17 | One might have hoped Frodo would get up on a block and speak to everybody , impose his will . |
| 18 | 1 small twentieth-century ornamental dinner plate with picture of Scarborough Beach ( this is optional , actually , but I always find it adds spice to a tour of a house if , when interest is flagging , you quietly get it out and prop it up on a table and then say innocently to an attendant : ‘ What 's the story behind that plate ? ’ and then wait to see what sort of explanation is invented by someone who has never seen it in his or her life before ) |
| 19 | It is easier to bring off if you have an assistant to hold the camcorder , otherwise , you have to set it up on a tripod or some other suitable support and switch it on with a remote control or time-delay . |
| 20 | I think , you know , you say you 've got a month , I think you 're gon na need also to try and find out from your membership as to whether in fact they 're prepared to turn up on a Saturday as well . |
| 21 | Well we were going to buy er a caravan when my wa er just , just before my husband died we were sort of looking for a caravan , we had gone and paid a deposit , we should have picked it up on a Saturday and he go , he died on a Friday , so I had to cancel and er only this week er I told you did n't I , that they paid my deposit back because it was genuine tragedy , I , I did n't sort of er made it up that I , you know , sometimes you 've paid a deposit and then you 've changed your mind |
| 22 | I 'd like to pick up on a point that er that Roy Donson made also right at the outset of of the discussion and that was that there 's no evidence that local authorities have have faced pressure for development in the countryside . |
| 23 | Can I pick up on a point that you 've just made Mr Sedgewick and also points made by those on your right about exceptions and presumptions . |
| 24 | Baby Jesus was real poor , so he had to grow up on a farm and that , and when he got bigger he went round with some friends telling everyone about God , and then he died . |
| 25 | Only in Orkney did this response receive a low rating which could be attributed to most of the people interviewed having been brought up on a farm and having the confidence that usually goes hand in hand with experience . |
| 26 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |
| 27 | ‘ I get so fed up on a train that after five minutes I 'm howling with boredom . |
| 28 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
| 29 | On the other hand , a stock of components can avoid the frustration of being held up on a project because a mundane integrated circuit is temporarily unavailable , or because you have managed to break one lead away from a 100m capacitor . |