Example sentences of "up on the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , while a pupil with this type of visual condition might be able to read words up on the blackboard with little difficulty , locating the words themselves could be an initial problem . |
| 2 | The water seems to dry up on the road without getting too far . |
| 3 | My father put up on the sofa in the big living-room next to my bedroom , which I had claimed as my study . |
| 4 | She was propped up on the sofa near her open window which commanded an excellent view of the whole of Canons ' Court . |
| 5 | As I sit down to write I have a photograph propped up on the desk in front of me . |
| 6 | Marie 's sitting up on the bed with a packet of fags . |
| 7 | Well they were hung up on the board in O S D on Friday when I went down there |
| 8 | She lay wallowing like a rosy dolphin in clouds of foam , with her exuberant hair pinned up on the top of her head . |
| 9 | Mo gets up on the top of them stands right up the top , spreads around there 's ! |
| 10 | up on the deck like a blond demon |
| 11 | It 's not just the better the members that we 've got working in the Health Service , it 's about everybody in the room and everybody in the country who wants to use it and we 've got ta get it a bi a bit higher up on the agenda at this union and I hope Mick , that you can give us the confidence and give us the commitment , that that 's what we 're gon na get from this union . |
| 12 | ‘ I looked it up on the map as a matter of interest . ’ |
| 13 | This made it all the harder for the mother to treat the ailing youngster and she might give up on the treatment for this reason . |
| 14 | Springfield himself was standing beside the open door of his car , which he had drawn up on the verge opposite the gates , angled so its headlights were bathing them in a pool of bright luminescence . |
| 15 | Within half an hour of leaving Rockford , the convoy had reached its destination and were drawn up on the verge alongside the perimeter fence , just short of the big front gates of Bethlehem House . |
| 16 | He shrugs off his legacy of injuries — a fractured bone in his back , ripped Achilles tendons , the deep bruise on his face which he picked up on the way to winning a bronze medal in Poland . |
| 17 | Missed departure cover is particularly important because there is more chance of being held up on the way to the airport in winter than in summer . |
| 18 | Bread and got some sausages bit of erm boiled ham which you can pick up on the way through |
| 19 | At the same time he said that new rules would be drawn up on the ownership of property , in preparation for the privatization of numerous state enterprises ; in this context he demanded a cut in bank interest rates , from a typical level of 50 per cent to around 20 per cent , so as to encourage private investment in industry , where he said that productivity had fallen by 10 per cent since the start of the year . |
| 20 | Er certainly the surplus was used to er create a new scheme for the present contributing members and er to the maximum benefit of the new sponsoring company , which er in the pensioners view er certainly er caused a great lack of security to the fund in our view of what they have done and er it is of in our opinion a matter of public concern and that we welcome the opportunity and I believe that you said previously that you 're gon na come up on the ownership of surplus , so perhaps getting away from it |
| 21 | 3.1.5 to take schedules or inventories of fixtures and other items to be yielded up on the expiry of the Term and |
| 22 | As has been said , Sam and Frodo experience it as thinking for a moment they have died and gone to Heaven , when they wake up on the field of Cormallen . |
| 23 | We were all lined up on the field at Peobresanskoe … the Winter Palace . |
| 24 | With the paperwork finished , it 's across to the Mess for a cup of tea and to catch up on the rest of the news . |
| 25 | I mean you can go up on the rest of the week , but the day before the holiday and the day after the holiday the |
| 26 | Models enable complex relationships to be set up on the computer in numerical form rather than in the form of subjective statements . |
| 27 | I had also been brought up on the story of the man who boasted that his ancestor had lost his leg at Waterloo , to which the response was ‘ Which platform ? ’ |
| 28 | Everyone crowded in and Maria had to sit up on the ledge of the window to be seen and heard . |
| 29 | Li Yuan was standing on the far side of the room , beside the ceremonial kang , one foot up on the ledge of it , his right hand stroking his unbearded chin . |
| 30 | ‘ Jane 's finishing is the reason we are up on the rostrum with a bronze medal in our hands . |