Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [num ord] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 2 | It is a familiar , yet penetrating , criticism of free market economies that the imperatives companies face to satisfy the adolescent greed of the financial markets and the escalating expectations of shareholders — or else prepare for predators — has diminished the scope of strategic planning to buffing up the next set of interims . |
| 3 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 4 | Then , on her hands and knees , she worked her way methodically across the floor , picking up every last piece of broken pottery or glass she could find . |
| 5 | Mind you , I mean there 's no point they 'll be looking up the first word of each of these |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 8 | ANALYSTS and advisers were yesterday lining up the next series of state asset sales and trying to see how the Government could increase the projected £19 billion over the next three years to reduce borrowing and fund tax cuts . |
| 9 | The Waterline , then , returns to its origins , as the case study which is Billy 's life painfully dredges up the first scenes of his disorder . |
| 10 | He turned up the first day of the term , picked up his grant , bought a guitar with it and then disappeared ‘ till the start of the next term and that term 's grant cheque . |
| 11 | The provision of council housing therefore links up the second basis of local — newcomer conflict , which relates to broadly environmental issues . |
| 12 | Open up the last bit of paper and all will be revealed . |
| 13 | A person buys a new washing machine , and is unfortunate enough to discover that ( a ) the cabinet is badly scratched , and thus not of merchantable quality ; ( b ) the machine ripped up the first batch of clothes and half-flooded the kitchen ( ie it was not fit for the purpose ) ; and ( c ) the model delivered by the suppliers was not the model agreed upon in the shop ( ie the goods were not as described by the retailer ) . |
| 14 | They reached the next landing and swung themselves around it , clambering up the next set of stairs . |
| 15 | With the bolt in the hole , bring up the second part of the joint , and mark round the circumference of the bolt . |
| 16 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 17 | Pick up the second edge of the band keeping the stitches in the hooks again , then knit them through . |
| 18 | Léonie swished her fork around her plate to gather up the last vestiges of sauce mornay . |
| 19 | They are , according to recent research , bringing up the next generation of offenders , truants , divorcees and generally inadequate people . |
| 20 | The Lima to Huancayo train in Peru reversing up the next section of the highest railway in the world . |
| 21 | Steve breathed , impressed , as they trundled up the last stretch of drive after the gates had clanked shut behind them . |
| 22 | The shadow was turning on that landing , moving up the next set of stairs after them . |
| 23 | I could n't see anything from road level because of the hedgerow but as I started up the second switch of the hill , I noticed an Escort estate car parked on the left opposite the police barrier . |
| 24 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 25 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 26 | The small group struggled up the last piece of the embankment , Teversham necessarily in the rear and Francis Morgan stumbled almost on to McLeish 's feet . |
| 27 | Troops mopped up the last pockets of resistance by men loyal to the former rebel movement , Unita . |
| 28 | I never had a chance to see if anyone had been hurt or not because we were already accelerating up the next stretch of road . |
| 29 | Once Tam darted a terrified glance over his shoulder and saw Kim sprawled across the writing-table ; white faced and trembling from head to toe , he had his eyes closed and his fists were clenched tight as he summoned up every last ounce of courage in his eleven-year-old body to endure his father 's beating without weeping or crying out . |
| 30 | My heart cried out to it , but when I approached it , it summoned up the last dregs of its strength and paddled frantically away to the middle of the lake , where I had been instructed never to go . |