Example sentences of "up on [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year , Britain 's clothing exports were worth £2 billion ( 20 per cent up on 1989 's figures ) . |
| 2 | And er yes i also , I would think , it 's a little unfortunate this chap happened to have his hand up on that er post there , yo you know , it 's a little bit er ungainly , it 's not sort of a very elegant sort of po I 'm not su suggesting he should pose for you , but I think , maybe had you waited until perhaps he moved his hand out of the way , it might have been a better erm composition . |
| 3 | Erm but picking up on that erm for instance I mean er first first impressions are the most important . |
| 4 | Er sometimes I get some muddled up on that erm V A T sometimes . |
| 5 | Am I right in saying Women 's Institute , do n't they go round and checking up on sorry erm footpaths ? |
| 6 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |