Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] up [art] [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Horrobin , himself a former professor of medicine in Montreal , has built up a company with sales of £16m and profits of the order of £6.5m and has plans to bring Efamol to the stockmarket . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Carrie tried to mop up the mess with the edge of the table cloth and put a mat under the worst of it to stop the damp marking the table , but her hands seemed all thumbs and she could n't stop crying . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to ride up the front with you . ’ |
| 5 | The requirement that homes should be a haven of peace and rest for the male breadwinner has set up a tension with an architectural notion of " rationality " which proclaimed bare simplicity , tidiness , and the importance of cooking and cleaning as work processes . |
| 6 | There are also rumours that DEC has struck up a deal with Auspex , although DEC UK would n't comment . |
| 7 | Ontario , Canada-based , ATI Technologies Inc has struck up a deal with Metro Link Inc to run ATI 's Ultra graphics accelerator board and Metro 's Metro-X X11.5 server together to give Intel Corp 80386 and 80486 systems X-Windows functionality . |
| 8 | No matter how hard the WRU tried to dress up the occasion with male voice choirs and star tenors , there was little genuine entertainment on offer . |
| 9 | These are mixes which are designed for the horse owner who still wants to feed traditionally ie oats etc , but wants to make up the deficiencies with a specific mix . |
| 10 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 11 | It was also reported that the Governor of Sokoto had decided to take up the issue with the federal authorities in Lagos . |
| 12 | Nonetheless , it was decided to make up the numbers with category B and C refugees . |
| 13 | I would stand on the doorstep waiting to pick up the children with my ex-wife sneering at me . |
| 14 | I told Mum I was going to make up a quarrel with Shirnette . |
| 15 | For many , the very phrase risk management may have been a switch off even before the experts started whipping up the campaign with the emphasis on the disaster scenario — terrorist bombings , sinking oil tankers , fraud , kidnap and computer fires . |
| 16 | In his last Test at Sydney in 1984–5 , having wrapped up the series with three victories in the first three games and not having lost for 27 Tests since 1981–2 , his team suddenly collapsed to an innings defeat , the architects of which were Bob Holland and Murray Bennett — spinners both . |
| 17 | The van was capacious and he decided to fill up the space with a couple of sacks of fuel . |
| 18 | He retired from the sea at the age of 36 , having taken up a career with the brush . |
| 19 | Hardly any of them replied and Chris , Nick and I decided to follow up the letters with phone calls . |
| 20 | The clinics will have to make up the difference with funds from the Länder , thereby ensuring that the money is used for its intended purpose . |
| 21 | Then he started to foul up the air with stinging yellow smoke . |
| 22 | Nutty went to round up the others with the good news and returned to find their new trainer surrounded by an admiring crowd . |
| 23 | Try to build up a rapport with the judge . |
| 24 | ‘ I try to build up a rapport with the callers and being able to speak a little French helps , ’ she said . |
| 25 | ‘ It 'll not be the first man I 've seen after he 's tried to fill up a car with a lighted cigarette in his mouth — nor the last . |
| 26 | Employers are not as co-operative as they used to be and players ca n't afford to throw up a job with the employment market as it is ’ — GEORGE SPOTSWOOD ( Irish RFU technical officer ) . |
| 27 | He turned left down an alley without indicating and I had to carve up a Volvo with Swedish number plates in order to follow him . |
| 28 | It may well be worth trying to gum up the joint with a mastic sealant or self-adhesive bitumastic flashing rather than going to all the trouble of dismantling the system : use the sealant on the joints even if you do dismantle and reassemble them . |
| 29 | Jim and Tina had made up a foursome with Jean Hay and Bruce Mackenzie . |
| 30 | To make them easier to serve , we 've firmed up the mixture with a few fine cake crumbs so that they do n't melt the moment they hit room temperature . |