Example sentences of "[noun pl] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | took the kids up a couple of times and then Mick and I have been up there with the |
| 2 | And then Luke came in and said the fire was fine and that he 'd bashed the cushions up a bit , to make it all OK for them . |
| 3 | So one person will do the bandage on the elbow and the other person with the good looking knees , you 'll be the casualty for where you 've got to put the knee bandage on , cos you wo n't , if you do n't roll your trousers up a bit you 're not going to have much bandage to do much bandaging with on the knee , okay , so decide amongst yourselves who 's got the good looking knee |
| 4 | The expectation was that IBM Corp would throw everything including the kitchen sink into its fiscal first quarter figures in order to give Louis Gerstner as clean a platform as possible on which to build — but the company unaccountably dressed the figures up a little , by taking a $95m tax credit in the quarter , without which the net loss would have been $380m ; interest charges in the first quarter declined by 12.5% to $305m . |
| 5 | ‘ Certainly , Sir , ’ I replied , ‘ that 's why I am here , to cheer things up a bit ! ’ |
| 6 | Leila had planned to keep it rather a subdued affair , but another natro group happened along at the small site they were using and livened things up a little . |
| 7 | ‘ Liven things up a bit , I suppose , ’ said Henry . |
| 8 | ‘ It 'll just mean speeding things up a little . ’ |
| 9 | When the process of ‘ waking things up a bit ’ commences , reputations , and records of attendances at police court , are made and broken every day . |
| 10 | To liven things up a bit and stimulate rivalry , it was decided in 1882 that one team should wear tall black hats and the other tall white ones . |
| 11 | What it needs is an historian who is n't afraid to jazz things up a bit — sidestep the facts and move the goalposts . |
| 12 | The amateur stuff loosens things up a bit ’ |
| 13 | To the extent that the amateur stuff loosens things up a bit , it ca n't help but in some sense be positive . ’ |
| 14 | The other use of TPI is to build proper computer integrated telephony ( CIT ) applications , and Sun 's entry into this swiftly growing market should shake things up a bit . |
| 15 | A well known joker thought he would liven things up a bit . |
| 16 | ‘ We shall have an opportunity now to balance things up a little — would you like that ? ’ |
| 17 | Brighten things up a bit . |
| 18 | Then between us possibly we could begin to stir things up a bit . ’ |
| 19 | This means that the heads stay in more or less the right position when switching between applications , thus speeding things up a little . |
| 20 | Shouts for a penalty for Leeds after a handball early on were ignored — a pity , since a goal then would have livened things up a bit . |
| 21 | Why do n't you tidy your things up a little bit ? |
| 22 | Mm , will that mess things up a bit for you ? |
| 23 | really hate is when you 're on a crowded train and you 're all getting on the train and someone else who 's getting off lights up a cigarette and |
| 24 | 3 Eddie climbed 38 metres up a tree that was 53 metres high . |
| 25 | And they include the most powerful steam locomotive ever built for the 1ft 11¾in gauge , the 1928 built German ‘ 77 ’ ( 2.6.2 plus 2-6-2 ) which is capable of hauling 600 tons on the level and 180 tons up a 1-in-33 gradient . |
| 26 | I was gon na say as I recollect I did n't see much wrong with it that I would disagree with erm I think it 's nice to see , you know , sort of progress seems to be going on and erm er what I would say is sort of it might be a good idea to sort of line the numbers up a bit more but erm |
| 27 | At this point I would like to say how great Steffi Graf is , and how her loyalty to her fans , and genuine great attitude to the game shows up the likes of Monica Seles . |
| 28 | This means that , if trains took coal from a mine 10 kilometres up a branch line to a power station 100 km away , the model would expect only 10 per cent of the revenue to be lost if the branch line were closed . |
| 29 | Now a ‘ searching for something ’ or ‘ exploring ’ theme crops up a great deal in drama and there are many teachers who do not recognise that what looks like a tense , exciting , well-focused structure may be no such thing . |
| 30 | ONE SUMMER in 1920 , while staying with the Morells at Garsington , the late Percy Feilding went for a drive around Oxfordshire , and miles up a cart track , purely by chance , he found Beckley . |