Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Now why those places should be funny , and we have to apologise to all the people who live there , but it does sound funny , and they er they just er the trials and tribulations they have when their own rather complex personal lives get mixed up with the play they 're doing .
2 We drew up outside a building which was surrounded by a walled courtyard .
3 These user experiences will tie up with a process we describe in Chapter 9 concerned with the changing relationship between medicine and the heroin user seeking treatment .
4 Ted jerked up like a man who 'd been zapped with a thousand volts .
5 C D trials give a good opportunity to see if the driving system stands up to a teacher who was not involved in the design of the unit and C DL and C D L trials separately show its effectiveness on first acquaintance and its effectiveness after the teacher is acclimatized to its use .
6 The star reincarnates his No Name as an avenging ghost in a High Noon -style rotten community , forcing them to paint their town red before he stands up to the killers who are about to ride through and finally saving the place only by burning it down ( a process the US army tried in Vietnam ) .
7 Various high-ranking people , ending up with the governor himself , turned up , asking them to go to bed , but they would n't go .
8 But it would be desperately hard , in the Arab world , to stand up to a man who could portray himself as a ( literally ) world-defying champion of Palestinian rights .
9 They gave me two options , basically one was to take the system down for twenty four hours and er while they got , they caught up with the jobs which I , I , I 've knocked on the head .
10 The old man had set off too and as he caught up with the cart he looked up at the fuming totter .
11 And obviously we 've come up with a plan which I hope that Didcot people would enjoy .
12 Now , strangely , Spalding have come up with a ball which measures 1.717 but which they call simply a 1.72 — the legal requirement regarding size , as stipulated in Clause ( b ) of Appendix III of the Rules of Golf , being only that the diameter of the ball shall be not less than 1.680 inches ( 42.67mm ) .
13 The Metropolitan Museum has been examining some of its most treasured paintings with the aid of the latest technology , and it has come up with a result which confounds the hitherto accepted history of art .
14 While many managers are increasingly concerned at recording unmet need , both how to do it and whether they should at all , he was confident Dorset has come up with a method which makes it a positive experience for staff and service users and , hopefully , avoids potential legal pitfalls .
15 But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man .
16 And erm anyway it was a wonderful place , wonderful relationship with the men and erm about the only odd thing about it I 've come up against a snag which I did n't think I 've had a ghost writer , I 've got publishers , and as I ca n't get er permission for all the photos that I want .
17 Then , my eyes were lifted up to the hill which overshadows the old city .
18 Sport now … and as England 's cricketers ' hopes of saving the ashes go up in smoke … we 'll catch up with the women who 're hoping to restore some national pride .
19 You 've got a long and full life ahead of you , chum , so you must now stop worrying and go back to sleep and catch up on the strength you 'll need for living it up when you 're better . ’
20 Then , as we built up through the storeys we were checking continually by plumbing and levelling the brickwork at regular intervals to keep the curvature constant . ’
21 Most items in these suites were designed to contrast one with another by varied time signatures , tempi and phrasing so that they built up to a climax which , in the early days , signalled the entrance of the king or the most important participant .
22 I was remembering some of the facts I built up from the data you brought me .
23 ‘ The place is full most o' the time , an' since the trade 's picked up at the docks there 's more carmen comin' in all times o' the day while they 're waitin' in the rank .
24 One or two of the excellent ones was spent , was spoiled by a little bit of er need to erm edit very carefully introdu introduction of concepts you must be careful not to , if you 've got a couple of hundred words only , but do n't introduce er concepts diversity of design must of been er a phrase picked up from the video itself because it appeared in two or three of them , but it 's no use talking about diversity and divine is it , de design as if , as if it 's a concept which everybody else is going to understand .
25 They never found him and I often wondered whether he went in with his machine and dead gunner or whether he managed to bale out and was picked up by the flyingboat they had stationed in Sicily for sea rescue work . ’
26 He would remove the radios from aircraft B and substitute them with the radios stolen from aircraft A. He would then be picked up by the aircraft he came in , leaving with the radios removed from aircraft B.
27 He rang back again at once and mistakenly carried on with the Airds ' answering service , not realizing that the woman there had picked up by the time I got to the phone .
28 He has to come up with a strategy which will instill new financial disciplines in Polish industry and satisfy the demands of the workers/public en masse .
29 This channel might be solid state but the crunch sounds quite natural , and experimenting with the various options on both channels I ca n't imagine many players not being able to come up with a sound which meets their particular requirements .
30 Government changes to the tax system in recent years had allowed the company to come up with a solution which would make shares which had been trading at less than £3 last month to £5 , Mr Ritblat said .
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