Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Three bottles thrown out to sea and they just happen to meet up a thousand miles away . |
| 2 | First , to sum up the relevant conclusions so far . |
| 3 | So , to sum up the main points so far : the scriptible as a value and the commentary as a form of reading both imply an approach which is largely incompatible with the chief principles of classical structuralism . |
| 4 | He 's already picked up a thousand pounds tomorrow he 'll receive a copy of his short story — The Green Moustache , which er got him into the final along with the other eleven winning stories which are being published in an anthology , which is hot off the presses from the publishers Collins . |
| 5 | Match up the potential customers below with the sort of shop you think they would buy from . |
| 6 | He woke up a few minutes later . |
| 7 | WP When East Berlin opened up a few months ago , there were mobile porn shops visiting different quarters of the city . |
| 8 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 9 | ‘ We went home on the Friday evening of the move and turned up a few days later and just started work — it was great ! ’ |
| 10 | British farmers who sold up a few years ago to buy cheap agricultural land in France are also finding that the grass is no greener on the other side of the Channel , and costs more . |
| 11 | This will prevent the continuous paper feeding forwards after each section is printed out , thus joining up the four printouts automatically . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Maxim had them set up a few yards away , thanked the boys gravely , and they sat down . |
| 15 | The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The guttering that she had bodged up a few months previously had come loose again . |
| 18 | We 'll be making up the lost hours tonight and on Monday . |
| 19 | I gave up a few years ago . ’ |
| 20 | Now , if like me you 've yet to attempt this big production number you could pick up a few tips here , after all , we 've a number of professionals in this hundred , hoteliers , dressmakers , cake makers , photographers , and video makers , registrars , ministers , but above all , we have a lot ex-brides here , and let's start off by finding how many we have . |
| 21 | Erm the way that the so-called high class types treat them in a way showing up the high classes as well is that right ? |
| 22 | And an RUC Special Branch officer had been beaten up a few weeks previously after going to meet his UFF informer in Belfast 's York Road district . |
| 23 | Straightening up a few minutes later , Lindsey nodded and smiled reassuringly . |
| 24 | After living with his aunt for four years , Mr Banks moved in with his girlfriend , but he moved back home last September after the couple split up a few weeks later and became very depressed . |
| 25 | And every second month they the occasional keeper the relieving keeper came out local man he came out to make up the two men then went ashore to cover the cover the the reliefs like that . |
| 26 | She picked up the two copies reluctantly , as though with tongs , and looked back across the desk at him defiantly . |
| 27 | There are garden centres — and for the most part , they will be attached to nurseries where the plants are propagated and grown , not just bought in wholesale — where ‘ container grown ’ really does mean grown in a container , and not potted up a few days beforehand . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |