Example sentences of "up [art] few " in BNC.
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| 31 | Together , by getting their fingers in the rat-holes , they managed to tug up a few feet of rotten chestnut boarding , tindery at the edges . |
| 32 | He 'd obviously picked up a few tips from the paperbacks , because he spun these stories out like a kid pulling on chewing-gum . |
| 33 | Once you can keep this up a few times , then you are juggling . |
| 34 | It is sometimes very difficult indeed not to be very cross , and there have been some occasions when I have had to go and chop up a few logs in order to abate my own aggression before replying . |
| 35 | I too pondered over making up a few of my own out of spring steel , but decided to try the cheaper option of a note to Warwick themselves before going down this route . |
| 36 | A good example of this is the Lambeth Lesbian and Gay Group which was set up a few years ago and whose meetings I attended three or four times . |
| 37 | ‘ Being used as cheap labour to break Alejandro 's ponies , ’ said Luke , taking Perdita 's suitcases from her , ‘ in return for picking up a few tips from the master . ’ |
| 38 | I set about building up an act with the aid of Rag magazines , joke-books , a gag nicked from here , a gag nicked from there and at my next engagement , four days later , I was billed as a comic and my fee went up a few quid . |
| 39 | Greene may have half-intended readers to identify Mr Savory with Priestley , and every year throws up a few romans clearly in need of a clef . |
| 40 | All you have to do is give up a few square yards of lawn space . |
| 41 | He would be treated to the kind of service his carrier is struggling to achieve and might even pick up a few tips on how an airline should be run . |
| 42 | SMALL investors could use any spare cash to pick up a few holdings in carefully chosen smaller companies . |
| 43 | The Prince 's Youth Business Trust , which gives grants and loans to disadvantaged young people hoping to start their own businesses , is looking for volunteer business advisers prepared to give up a few hours a month to help the youngsters get their projects off the ground . |
| 44 | Performance-wise , I suppose the best Bill ever managed was on a sunny spring weekday in the early 80s , when he 'd already passed his 60th birthday and I coaxed him up a few 5c slab routes at about E3 on Froggatt : Long John 's Slab , Great Slab , Armageddon . |
| 45 | Niki eats up a few places and then finds himself at the back of a bunch of five cars behind Prost , who is running second . |
| 46 | ‘ The NEB … sent up a few people to take samples and they produced an interim report on the levels of radioactivity in the area . |
| 47 | Soon she would herself be in the market for a new home , and , though she and Boyd could not hope to outdo a contractor like the Mayor building for himself , she could pick up a few ideas and have them incorporated into their new house in Vanier Heights . |
| 48 | Is it enough to assume you are comparatively fit because you walk up a few stairs or stretch and bend a little as you go about your household chores ? |
| 49 | We went up a few steps and into a small majlis which was nearly choked by deep couches pushed against its walls . |
| 50 | These rugged limestone reef hills are not really typical of the dark , rolling peaty landscape of the Pennines , but even the gritstone moors have managed to throw up a few fine hills . |
| 51 | As the current Gogarth guidebook heads towards halfway in its lifespan and a reasonable number of new routes are being climbed , I have rounded up a few corrections and other snippets that are applicable to the existing routes . |
| 52 | Q Could you please clear up a few points which I am sure confuse other readers as well as myself . |
| 53 | Somewhere along the road , she had picked up a few extra senses , and she would have to learn to live with them . |
| 54 | She picked up a few more guns from corpses , and did n't feel naked any more . |
| 55 | ‘ He told me he could n't face the prospect of another divorce , which I understood because my parents split up a few years ago and it was very distressing , ’ she said . |
| 56 | At the same time they might even pick up a few tips from Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram instead of trying to put them down . |
| 57 | The knife sprang into the air , arced up a few inches as if powered by a small spring . |
| 58 | Searching the cloaks turns up a few loose buttons and an Imperial silver shilling . |
| 59 | This huge chamber is reached by a short spiral staircase which leads up a few feet beyond the gallery door in room 64 . |
| 60 | Conventional Hollywood thinking in the late 1930s was summed up a few years later by Raymond Moley when he was discussing the general ethics of the Production Code . |