Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [det] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere along the road , she had picked up a few extra senses , and she would have to learn to live with them . |
| 2 | The car , however , had picked up a few more dents , and none of the windows existed any longer . |
| 3 | GCHQ began in 1919 as the Government Code and Cipher School ( GCCS ) , picking up the few remaining members of the army and naval teams of codebreakers who had operated in Britain during World War I. A very small team was formed , working on a tiny annual budget in MI6 's offices at 56 Broadway , in London . |
| 4 | The physicists who felt they had left their successors with little more to do than to clean up a few minor problems expressed the same mood as August Schleicher , who was sure that ancient Aryans had talked exactly the putative language which he had reconstructed for them . |
| 5 | All you have to do is give up a few square yards of lawn space . |
| 6 | 9.00am Linda pops into the Savoury Delicatessen in Clapham High Street to pick up a few essential items . |
| 7 | Oxford manager Brian Horton had drawn up a few special plans for Villa one of them was this free kick which hit the post . |
| 8 | The idea of race opened up a few humorous possibilities . |
| 9 | Searching the cloaks turns up a few loose buttons and an Imperial silver shilling . |
| 10 | Spending time considering that Chemical Dependency might be the true cause of many of these secondary consequences is a better use of the doctor 's time than trying to tidy up the same repeated consequences time and time again . |
| 11 | Just far enough for a tongue , large as a palm leaf , red as mahogany , to lick up a few errant feathers . |
| 12 | She had to lift up a few loose strands from her neck when Lowell fastened the beads . ’ |
| 13 | And their third album , which is actually untitled , should do even better now that they have notched up a few hit singles to go along with the hit album . |
| 14 | ‘ It is unlikely that we would sue the government — in fact , we might even pick up a few extra funds on the back of theirs . |
| 15 | She had cleared up a few worrying points about William Egan . |
| 16 | These rugged limestone reef hills are not really typical of the dark , rolling peaty landscape of the Pennines , but even the gritstone moors have managed to throw up a few fine hills . |
| 17 | She picked up a few more guns from corpses , and did n't feel naked any more . |
| 18 | Aircraft collectors snapped up the few former airliners in the sale . |