Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [det] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broker Cazenove , responsible for marketing the UK tranche of the share sale , failed to drum up the same level of enthusiasm exhibited in other centres . |
| 2 | I built up the same sort of profile about the shipbuilder . |
| 3 | There was only one person to whom Jerome would be reporting with so much fervour ; Bénezet , naturally curious about anything that might serve his turn or redound to his profit , was not averse to picking up a few crumbs of useful information by the way . |
| 4 | She leaned closer and reached out , to pick up a few strands of dark hair . |
| 5 | Why else would there already be the reported droves of tour operators and speculators visiting South Africa , if not to set up the same kind of hospitality package deals that South Africans were forced to buy in 1991 ? |
| 6 | Surely it could not take this long to gather up a few baskets of food ? |
| 7 | It always takes up the same number of positions in the file name , and that 's useful as you shall see . |
| 8 | In addition computer artists Karl Sims , Rebecca Allen and Julia Hayward have provided animated speculations about the digital landscapes of the future which fill up the latter part of the show . |
| 9 | If you 're going to keep up the same pattern of commitments the answer is that the army is already stretched as it clan be and so are the other two services and this is putting a terrific strain on the individual servicemen and their families . |
| 10 | I pulled up a few tufts of grass and covered the blood . |
| 11 | He says he was a little bit fed up becausehe had to plough up the same strip of the field several times for the film crew . |
| 12 | Rico d'Agostino started up the same kind of place in what used to be Hogan 's Bar only a few blocks away . |
| 13 | Or go back to HQ , and try to think up a few lines of enquiry for the staff there to pursue — men and women looking progressively more unwashed and unkempt and incompetent as the small hours of the morning gradually wore on . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He picked up a few tricks of the trade as he progressed . |