Example sentences of "up on to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then spring up on to a bench . |
| 2 | Follow this , keeping edge of wood on left and take next left fork which runs up on to a shoulder where another path joins from left and then ascends shoulder steeply ( f ) . |
| 3 | Landowners started to complain that the bikes were chewing up their paths , raising the whole ugly debate about access up on to a new plane , and ridge-walks lost some of their grandeur by displaying fat tyre tracks on their grassy sections . |
| 4 | In less dramatic contexts , for de-clawed cats kept indoors ( and robbed of all outdoor pleasures ) , even the simple act of climbing up on to a chair or a window-ledge may prove hazardous . |
| 5 | But it seems more likely that this fear has more to do with the childhood horror of seeing the parent scream at the ‘ smothering ’ cat that has just jumped up on to a cot or bed . |
| 6 | Everyone who knew him in those schooldays — men and women alike — speak with affection of him : stories tumble out like clothes spilling out of a split suitcase — Richard peeing out of the train window as the engine roared by the station platform , Richard taking a girl up on to a mountain and scaring her to flight at his howl as a passionate hand landed on one of his more angry boils , Rich , reeking of beer , rolling into school and being sent home . |
| 7 | A whinchat perched , first atop a tussock — ‘ Tic , tic , tic , tu-tic ’ — then it flew up on to a boulder to continue its scolding . |
| 8 | I climbed up on to a bank to see . |
| 9 | Someone lifted me up on to a high chair , so that I was close to his nose . |
| 10 | Frejji 's voice , making me jump , jolted my headache up on to a new level . |
| 11 | Cassowary lumbered up on to a branch and began to squawk , screwing his eyes tight shut , the better to appreciate his own performance . |
| 12 | Steven cursed inwardly and had to step up on to a low wall above the height of the laser-axles to empty and fill his lungs again . |
| 13 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
| 14 | In a moment , they were far enough out that they could see miles down the rocky shoreline … and they could see the other boaters scrambling up on to a piece of rock . |
| 15 | She lifted a leg up on to a pile of old beer crates , leaving Charlie faced with an expanse of bare pink thigh . |