Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parade converges on Place St Maur des Fosses to hear a few words from the local Euro-MP , because the EC has stumped up a bit of money to make it a European clowns ' convention this year . |
| 2 | A woman who found £40 on a bank floor has won a three-year battle to have it donated to a baby unit — and the bank has stumped up an extra £10 . |
| 3 | Sometimes when groups of horses get mixed up a foal may seem to get irrationally fixated on another horse . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm mixed up a bit in it . |
| 5 | If there was no correlation , well you 'd expect them to be mixed up a bit so that negatives might occur with negatives or they might occur with positives vice-versa Now , I 'm g try and give you a feel for how these numbers , how we work out the correlation coefficient in terms of Z scores . |
| 6 | Thus we can always tell what colour a face should be by looking at its centre , regardless of how mixed up the cube is . |
| 7 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 8 | The trial judge seems to have mixed up the Caldwell and Cunningham versions of recklessness . |
| 9 | But however mixed up the plot may be , there 's no doubting the strength of the music : |
| 10 | The little girl was frightened when she saw her mother being hustled up the aisle towards her . |
| 11 | Flowers , a surprise call-up a month ago when the squads for the World Cup double in Poland and Norway were announced , so much looked the part as Chris Woods 's stand-in that he may have leapfrogged up the goalkeeping queue . |
| 12 | She would have rustled up a little casserole or coq au vin while he laid the table beautifully . |
| 13 | I reckon Christmas is cracked up a lot more than it it 's made out to be . |
| 14 | Now I 'd also in this time rung up the er forwarding address in Manchester , rung up the telephone number I 'd been given of the forwarding address . |
| 15 | Now I 'd also in this time rung up the er forwarding address in Manchester , rung up the telephone number I 'd been given of the forwarding address . |
| 16 | I just wish they had n't boarded up the windows . |
| 17 | Disillusioned with the cottage and its problems , he had boarded up the windows and returned to Toronto , meaning eventually to come back and make a final decision about his ill-advised purchase . |
| 18 | The carburettor had clogged up a second time in the storm and they had had to wait until it was over . |
| 19 | The west façade , flanked by two towers , is approached up a flight of steep steps into a magnificent , open narthex ( 1178 ) where is situated the west portal . |
| 20 | Next week came , and we never got that half hour , so it must have added up a lot , all throughout the year . |
| 21 | Once you have added up the figures in the budget planner , you will have to deduct income tax to arrive at the net spending amount available to you . |
| 22 | Transworld has added up the units on the list for home and export sales . |
| 23 | Had she added up the facts wrongly , found him guilty more because it was what she had feared than that it was the truth ? |
| 24 | It 's interesting that team briefing thing on there , because that 's come up a couple of times recently , people have mentioned about erm team briefing as a sort of management system . |
| 25 | it 's come up a wee bit . |
| 26 | seems to have come up a bit . |
| 27 | She was also a kind of mascot of the liberal intelligentsia — had she not come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heap to stand by Miller 's side defying the anti-Communist witch-hunters who wanted to jail him ? |
| 28 | But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours . |
| 29 | Giving the vote , in effect , not only to men like Goldsborough who had always had it as a birthright , but to men like himself and Ben Braithwaite 's father who had come up the hard way . |
| 30 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |