Example sentences of "[verb] up each " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients , to Aline , were fascinating mental problems to be picked up each time one walked on duty and put down directly one walked out of the ward . |
| 2 | One person holds up each of the objects in turn and says ‘ This is a thing , a very pretty thing , what must the owner do to receive it ? ’ |
| 3 | He holds up each man 's hand . |
| 4 | On the night I turned up in my red leotard and dippy skirt with a heavier than usual coat of paint on , to find , to my horror , that Cleo Roccas of Kenny Everett fame and a young lady much featured on Page 3 , called Gilly , I think , were already up on the stage , surrounded by a sixty-strong swarm of Street of Shame photographers , all climbing up each other 's anoraks and screaming ‘ Lean forward , Cleo — a bit further , give us a smile , lick your lips , Gilly — lovely , lovely — hitch that skirt up a bit … ’ |
| 5 | Nearly 1,000 tots line up each year for the championship , swimming in competitive matches about once every three weeks during the winter months . |
| 6 | I do keep an eye on my colour changer to make sure that it is picking up each colour as it should and I am also very careful to check that I have no ‘ lazy ’ or less than perfect needles as picking up dropped stitches is not a pleasant job . |
| 7 | In fact , there , that that , that 's that printing of s , that shape of s , followed by a t , was still used by some printers right up until the twentieth century , because it 's actually , you know that when when prints , print was put together by hand , by picking up each letter erm , and as assembling it separately , there was actually always a stop letter , a stop erm , I ca n't remember what it 's called , although I did some printing years ago , erm , lump a die thing with s t already printed together , because because s t is used so much in combination , the erm , printer did n't always have to set up s followed by a t , but had a rack of s t's already prepared and they were often , virtually joined together in this way , and erm , I got , I got an edition of I think it 's the novels of Jane Austen printed in the nineteen twenties which still use that shape of s t but used as the small s for any other forms . |
| 8 | The dominant memory I have of Skail , however , is not of psalm-singing Mrs Mackay , but of her porridge , dished up each morning with malignant glee . |
| 9 | It was 20 June when they went back , all Goblander 's windows open , the weather being perfect the way you expected it to be that summer , as if it were southern Europe where you woke up each morning to sunshine and unclouded skies . |
| 10 | Thousands of spirits , demons , affrits , djinni , ghouls , familiars , kings of the winds and gates , princes of the stars , ancestors , shetani , rakhashas , angels of comeuppance , the lot , all milling about , sniffing the trends , eyeing up each other , watching the new-product demonstrations , gathering free samples . |
| 11 | Checking of word structure may be achieved by looking up each of the possible character combinations in a list of words . |
| 12 | Now my feeling is that in doing an evaluation one ought to try and develop each of these different viewpoints , then leave it to the people concerned that have to make the decisions to pick up each of these and to make the decisions , but at least the evaluation itself is not sort of ruling out of court any of the viewpoints that could be important in that situation , so any person who 's involved , even if they 're in a minority of one , at least feels that his views are there in the evaluation somewhere and they 're made legitimate by it . |
| 13 | ‘ First British diplomatic post in the world to open up each day , you know , ’ he said proudly . |
| 14 | I have a picture in my mind still of endless queues of captives waiting under guard to mount the steps of the Aztec temples where the priests of Huitzilopochtli stood waiting with obsidian stone knives , hands and faces black with caked blood , their robes stiff with it , as they worked industriously to open up each human chest , extract the still-palpitating heart , offering it to their filthy god , then tossing the torn-open body back down the steps to the waiting warriors below , who hacked it into joints for the ritual cannibalism that ensured both the pleasures of the flesh and added prowess from the absorption of the captive joint into their own live bodies . |
| 15 | Wakes up each day demanding ‘ What is fresh in the market ? ’ , buys only the best , and creates a superb , no-choice menu — reaffirming her customers ' belief in her quality every day . |
| 16 | We came on a , I think it was on a Friday or Saturday morning and I had to go back Sunday night , cos I was on duty on the Monday back in Plymouth , and I did a month in Plymouth , er , a month or five weeks no longer , and I came up each weekend to see them , my wife was left there then . |
| 17 | The list for the Labour Group will be made up each Friday morning and passed to Jean Speedie by lunchtime . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's slit up each side , ’ she said showing an expanse of thigh . |
| 19 | Then open up each plug in turn so you can check that it is correctly wired up , that the terminal screws are secure ( they can easily work loose in time ) , that the cord grip is working properly , and lastly , that the correct fuse is fitted . |
| 20 | A thick dark oak forest grew up , and before she could fight her way -through it , Baba Yaga had to tear up each tree with her -teeth . |
| 21 | Calling on an acting ability not required since her childhood , she covered her patient with a cotton blanket and then hitched up each leg in turn and strapped them into the lithotomy stirrups , thus trapping the hoaxer until the joke had run its course . |
| 22 | The study shows , though , that women are as able to take tough decisions — but will weigh up each of the factors carefully . ’ |
| 23 | It emerged that when oestrogen was taken on its own , the lining of the womb would build up each month and remain there instead of being shed as a period . |
| 24 | If you stand here it might look beautiful , but if you pick up each one individually you 'll see weeds germinating , brittle bits and you could pick up a disease in the early stages which you just would n't see otherwise . |
| 25 | Indeed , all the millions of cells that make up each one of us have been formed by a process of successive cell divisions , during each of which the 46 chromosomes were first faithfully duplicated , and then separated to form two new daughter cells . |
| 26 | Do you pause from time to time to thank God for the hundred and one tiny joys that make up each day ? |
| 27 | Make up each of the two kite ends first , then use a screwdriver , tent peg or skewer or similar stake to hold the extreme ends positively to the park ground . |
| 28 | Important aspects of the Grand Alliance technical proposal include the replacement of the present interlaced scanning technique , where two scans of the screen make up each frame , to progressive scan transmission , where entire picture frames are transmitted sequentially , and the use of so-called square pixels , where the dots on a television screen are arranged in equally spaced rows and columns . |
| 29 | The various elements or component activities which make up each of the four Marketing Mix categories are interdependent . |
| 30 | The 10 trillion cells that make up each one of us are the product of a few dozens of generations of cell doublings . |