Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked round the hall , then bent to pick up the broken remains of a photo frame . |
| 2 | During his search for parts he has built up a colossal spares stock , but as the type has been used by so many air forces around the world and is still in service in places , components are not difficult to obtain — although they can be pricey . |
| 3 | Thus we may write , where t is a random , serially independent variable designed to pick up the random movements in the risk premium . |
| 4 | The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop . |
| 5 | Individuals on current salaries of £75,000 or more who are thinking of changing jobs and either joining a new scheme or transferring their existing pension to one will need to weigh up the financial consequences . |
| 6 | Since the Bingham Report it has set up a special investigations unit and improved staff training . |
| 7 | In Wales the WRFU has set up an international players ' trust fund . |
| 8 | ‘ He has taken up the priestly tasks of his father , ’ she says . |
| 9 | While it was the Today newspaper that focused national attention on the fact that the Princess did not have to travel half way round the world to find clean water , it is the aptly-named CoastGuard that has kept up the high standards of cleanliness for royalty and commoners alike . |
| 10 | The proposal for National Parks , however , received further support in the Dower report , published in 1945 , and that of the Hobhouse committee , which proposed setting up a National Parks Commission paid for out of public funds . |
| 11 | An archaeologist who has transformed the way people think about his area of study ; a communicator who can make an enthralling TV programme ; a lover of contemporary art who has persuaded the Fellows of his Cambridge college at least to tolerate biannual sculpture shows ( one of which involved digging up the hallowed lawns ) ; and now , since his peerage which gives him the forum of Britain 's Upper House , a politician , with strong views on how to preserve the world 's history as encapsulated in its archaeology : Colin Renfrew at fifty-five has an enviable career and range of interests . |
| 12 | The sub-arterial road was to be an intermediate class of road designed to link up the main arterials to the local roads . |
| 13 | Prosecution witness Isham Chandra Dutta said he agreed to set up a dummy gems company in Bombay , for a £20,000 fee , which included a mail message centre with false letterheads and invoices . |
| 14 | Although the publishers rejected the idea of a joint imprint , they do have to market the books jointly — but in such a way that the public and foreign publishers looking to pick up the foreign rights are not confused . |
| 15 | Working in conjunction with the British Mountaineering Council and the Ramblers ' Association , COLA plans to set up the British Uplands Footpath Trust . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Neil Pascoe says he 's always wanted to cycle from John 0 Groats to Lands End and then the idea came to run up the three peaks and swim the lakes and try to raise money for charity … |
| 18 | ‘ Three bottles thrown out to sea and they just happen to meet up a thousand miles away . |
| 19 | The Dutch government has helped to set up a national halons " bank " to ensure the most effective use of the chemicals . |
| 20 | We 've got to set up a proper complaints procedure , so that people know how to complain about Social Services , although I doubt very much whether anybody would ever want to complain about Oxfordshire 's Social Services , and so on . |
| 21 | Politicians are n't going to stick their necks out to help break up the various logjams unless we 're shouting and yelling at them from the bank — for the most part to encourage them , but also to warn them of dire consequences to come if they get out of the hot water before the job is done . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't think that professionalism as such should have a place within the playing side of the Association , ’ states the Dungiven clubman , ‘ We play for pure enjoyment and recreation and if along the way we manage to pick up a few honours , then that 's great . |
| 23 | Another problem which electric fish have circumvented is that very sensitive receptors are needed to pick up the weak signals of other fish , and such receptors would be swamped by the fish 's own field . |
| 24 | The herd tends to flee together and the stripes are thought to jumble up the individual shapes and make the fleeing herd look like one great mass of black and white patterning . |
| 25 | He was persuaded to buy up the remaining freeholds of the Monico block in order to promote an acceptable redevelopment scheme ; this took shape as a podium , a tall block and a large advertisement panel . |
| 26 | I must congratulate Michael Calvin on his article ( Daily Telegraph , March 31 ) in which he highlighted my son being told to cover up the Olympic Rings on his Great Britain uniform , which he otherwise wore so proudly . |
| 27 | As well as organising conferences and courses the group also helped set up a national awards scheme and backed a number of arts publications . |
| 28 | There were tracks in the cooled fat where chunks of bread had been used to mop up the tasty juices of the meal . |
| 29 | I also enjoy ripping up the rejected drafts of this manuscript . |
| 30 | He helped by doing much of the specialist machining work and designing many of the one-off items needed to marry up the different parts . |