Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this chapter we will channel our energies into opening up the contradictory facets of our personalities and explore the different voices , different tones of voice , that these contradictions make available to us . |
| 2 | As Hennessy was opening up the grey lockers at the end of the room , Donaldson spelt Bobo again . |
| 3 | Wolsey 's clerks drew up the necessary letters of accreditation , warrants and bills for the exchequer . |
| 4 | After consultation with the Leeds Permanent Building Society , the EOC drew up the following recommendations in respect of mobility : |
| 5 | I see from today 's Financial Times that a leading member of the board of the Bundesbank said yesterday that the Maastricht summit was a failure and might prove to be ’ a suicidal failure ’ — serious words from a key member of the body that drew up the detailed proposals for European economic and monetary union . |
| 6 | So I am encouraged in my perhaps natural naïveté , I am encouraged to be simpliste , by my knowledge of the value of complication in fogging up the real issues in politics . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He 'd obviously picked up a few tips from the paperbacks , because he spun these stories out like a kid pulling on chewing-gum . |
| 9 | I much regret that such a new Member of Parliament should have picked up the churlish habits of other Labour Members . |
| 10 | If the pension funds and insurance companies had waited they could have picked up the same properties at a far lower price . |
| 11 | as if to prove it , our green-fingered experts have again picked up the top prizes in Aberdeen district council 's gardening competition . |
| 12 | We must not only abide by a precise form , but also build up the right waves of emotion to give it full human significance . |
| 13 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 14 | Why do n't you count up the French words in italics and see how many you can learn by heart . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Juliette bent down and began picking up the smashed pieces of china . |
| 18 | Because i it is assumed management is learned by picking up the bad habits of your predecessor and their predecessors for the last five hundred years . |
| 19 | However , as the busloads of pilgrims trudged up the muddy paths to the whispered prayers ( ’ Our Lady of Ballinspittle sway for us ’ ) of the local inn keepers , the Bishop of Cork gave a lukewarm endorsement to the extent that it WIS no bad thing to see people praying . |
| 20 | These ‘ gorses ’ filled up the odd corners of parishes , and may be quickly spotted on the Ordnance map . |
| 21 | He skimmed the accompanying text , which added little to what Francesca had already told him , filling up the two columns with a recital of Tristram 's career beginning with his legendary recording of ‘ Panis Angelicus ’ as a thirteen-year-old treble at St Joe 's . |
| 22 | This is , however , a revealing case study in that disagreements show up the different modes of explanation clearly . |
| 23 | A look is created , forgotten and then reinvented years later as it hits a dead end and digs up the tried-and-tested looks of yesteryear . |
| 24 | and we will not give up the good things in life for Greenpeace and for a clean environment |
| 25 | If they succeed , they will give up the last vestiges of the party state and refute the criticisms that they are only interested in the power and money accumulated by the Communists over the past 40 years , without accepting any blame for their actions . |
| 26 | She leaned closer and reached out , to pick up a few strands of dark hair . |
| 27 | SMALL investors could use any spare cash to pick up a few holdings in carefully chosen smaller companies . |
| 28 | MIPS expects a number of its OEMs to pick up the new ARCsystems including CDC , Tandem and government integrator AT&T Federal Systems Advanced Technologies which will put its System V/Multi-Level Secure Unix on the boxes . |
| 29 | Between about 1947 and 1951 , when the Ritz in Sheffield , Alabama was still open , my main encounters with the place — between the ages of four and eight — were on trips with my father across the river to pick up the final reports on the daily receipts on all four of the Rosenbaum theatres our family owned in Sheffield and Tuscumbia . |
| 30 | These jelly-filled tubes have electroreceptor cells at their ends , delicate enough to pick up the tiny discharges of the prey 's body . |