Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [noun sg] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Picking up the story thirty years on , Peter Bogdanovich 's eagerly anticipated sequel to THE LAST PICTURE SHOW substitutes elegiac lament with a wry comedy of the trials and absurdities of disillusioned middle-age . |
| 2 | It is difficult to pick up a magazine these days and not see an article or item of news about the latest attack on some computer or other . |
| 3 | Microsoft asked computer distributor , Keydata SA to set up the Institute four years ago . |
| 4 | What happens when you open up the market twenty years down the line , you realize that these industries are dinosaurs , they 're using technology that 's thirty years out of date . |
| 5 | In his 22 years in the ring , Chiyonofuji racked up a record 1,045 wins and 31 Emperor 's Cups — just one short of the record held by his celebrated predecessor , Taiho . |
| 6 | She would leave by the back door and pick up a taxi several blocks away . |
| 7 | On the television screen , we would see the moving scanner building up a picture 25 times each second . |
| 8 | This they achieved with stunning success , building up a trade several times the size of their previous home market . |
| 9 | It was a wonderful feeling to put up an affirmative two fingers as the mechanic helped me taxi in . |
| 10 | Gabriel went up the ladder two rungs at a time , and stood sweating behind his cloud . |
| 11 | ‘ I took up the sport six years ago when my local team , the Darlington Dawdlers , were short of a fourth rider . |
| 12 | A member of the Warrington Road runners , he took up the sport six years ago . |
| 13 | For part of the way we linked arms with Fred Lebow who thought up the race 23 years ago and who now has brain cancer and wanted to run it . |
| 14 | THE London Monarchs made the sort of World League history they could do without when they gave up a record eight turnovers in Saturday 's 13–7 defeat at Barcelona Dragons . |
| 15 | We spent three nights there , initially having a lazy day exploring the beaches , and the next day cycling up the coast fifteen kilometres to Pontevedra , another classic granite Galician town , before climbing up through cool forests to a TV masts on the 2,000-foot summit of the peninsula . |
| 16 | And all the while the shadow of the Bomb grew longer as the most powerful nations on earth stockpiled enough megatonnes to blow up the world fifty times over . |
| 17 | I set up a solicitor two months after I 'd finished the the assignment . |
| 18 | Tom , a professional engineer , set up the company 5 years ago after being made redundant for the third time . |
| 19 | Italy 's monarchy set up the agency 100 years ago to provide services to some 90 regional consortia that helped farmers and food companies sell their output and buy supplies . |
| 20 | Roofer Clive Tibbett clocked up an ear-shattering 118.7 decibels in the shouting match — louder than a pneumatic drill and just short of the world record and the noise of a jet . |