Example sentences of "[vb pp] up an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Lisa 's story had conjured up an arresting image . |
| 3 | The Republicans also picked up an estimated 14,000 votes from the Social Democrats and yet more from people who have not bothered to vote before . |
| 4 | Twenty-odd years earlier , I 'd picked up an idea from the marvellously creative Bill Brown who was Director of Billy Graham 's Crusades in 1966–7 . |
| 5 | The under-16 team recently picked up an award as the most sporting girls ' rugby team and have completed a very successful season ; eight girls have been selected for the Lancashire under-18 team and three for the under-13 team . |
| 6 | It seemed he lived at home with his widowed mother and , following a fight with her , he had picked up an axe and killed her . |
| 7 | Richie had picked up an almost invisible speck and said , ‘ I 'm just this tiny grain of sand . ’ |
| 8 | one who pretends to have picked up an apparently valuable ( but actually worthless ) ring which he palms off on an unwary buyer . |
| 9 | They said that , in the narrow passageway , a corridor whose opposite walls I can touch comfortably with two hands , I had picked up an aluminium chair , ripped it in half , swung it around and hit a policeman with it so hard that he had to shield his head . |
| 10 | AN injured climber was rescued yesterday after an SOS was picked up an aircraft flying overhead . |
| 11 | A P Indy is on the reserve list for the Japan Cup , and is likely to be invited to Tokyo because American candidates Solar Splendour has picked up an injury . |
| 12 | ‘ Just picked up an odd-looking customer . |
| 13 | ‘ So do I. We 've had the spy-glass trained on his approach bearing and they 'd have picked up an explosion for sure . ’ |
| 14 | Ingres Corp is claiming a world first for its Ingres/Enhanced Security relational database , which has picked up an Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria E3/F-B1 security rating . |
| 15 | She had complained of stomach problems after returning and doctors at first thought she had picked up an infection in Africa . |
| 16 | Thus there has grown up an interest in feminist ‘ herstory ’ ; etymologically impossible , the word emphasizes that his-story has been just that — the history of men . |
| 17 | During this period there has also grown up an international community of people interested in gender in mathematics and/or science and/or technology . |
| 18 | Children are believed to be more vulnerable than adults , who are thought to have built up an immunity after a similar , but much less virulent virus appeared last year . |
| 19 | Starting very gradually , they have built up an exercise routine for each patient designed to suit their particular needs and they have found that the results have been quite dramatic . |
| 20 | Over the past 50 years , PPP has built up an excellent reputation for its prompt and caring service . |
| 21 | At Oxford University , their chap-lain has built up an active programme of events , getting speakers as varied as heart transplant pioneer Dr Christian Barnard , actor Jon Voigt and Israeli cabinet minister Ariel Sharon . |
| 22 | While Diana has built up an active social life within a two-mile radius of Kensington Palace , the Prince rarely ventures into town and prefers to dine with friends at Highgrove . |
| 23 | The experience is made doubly uncomfortable because the man facing them is Dr Giovanni Agnelli , the founder 's grandson , director for 49 years , chairman for 26 , and the man who has built up an enterprise with a turnover of £26bn and 300,000 employees . |
| 24 | The police had been excluded from prior knowledge of the arrests , but quickly built up an accurate picture . |
| 25 | He has built up an extensive wine list in close co-operation with Peter Davenport , and is knowledgeable and enthusiastic about it . |
| 26 | Clifford Allen , who since 1934 had built up an all-Party group of experts committed to collective security and domestic reform , resisted pressures to take up the cause of the People 's Front , and , instead , devoted the last year of his life to actively assisting Chamberlain 's diplomacy . |
| 27 | Miss Muir , 59 , who with her husband Harry Leuckert has built up an impressive collection of art pieces , declines to discuss the gift , but stresses that her donation was a private gesture . |
| 28 | Whitehead Mann has built up an enviable concentration in the top end of the market , attracting some particularly senior and thus highly remunerative assignments . |
| 29 | From 1471 there was built up an informal ‘ system ’ of government finance , which operated alongside , and to some extent in co-operation with , the old Exchequer . |
| 30 | They had consolidated their position since the fifteenth century and had latterly built up an impregnable position in the social infrastructure of the region . |