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

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1 All they do when they 're at sea is take down the messages we send to them , so do n't worry about not picking up a signal , 'cause nobody 'll be sending you any . ’
2 An inquiry into the Beirut massacres was held up because of lawsuits against the Israel government for not setting up an inquiry .
3 While I am about it , I had better apologise on behalf of a contributor , who was castigated by post for not looking up the meaning of a phrase that was , to him , mysterious .
4 In the hope of perhaps pushing up the timber and the fruit and veg .
5 If there was any criticism of the engine , it was that the aluminium alloys used gave the impression of not standing up the rigours of 40 years under the ground quite so well .
6 But it is a matter of realistically weighing up the pros and cons .
7 At this time the idea of simply dividing up the group into product groups was also broadened .
8 The scope for misunderstanding and the possibility of simply giving up the attempt increases hugely when the less tangible , less definable aims and outcomes of partnerships are considered .
9 Erm , on software we said we said we had to add that into our procedures anyhow , last , on our last year view meeting , did n't we , which is what we 've done and we 've also as of today set up a system of logging new software coming in and signing it .
10 Thus we can always tell what colour a face should be by looking at its centre , regardless of how mixed up the cube is .
11 Resistance from left-wing militia forces and loyalist Civil and Assault Guards was intermittently intense but incapable of seriously holding up the advance .
12 Anyway , what I really want to talk about is engineering for our future in a way because I mean most of you er , listen to the doom and gloom and all the ni , all the er kind of statistics we 've seen that come out of the Engineering Prize Federation , the C B I , I wish somebody , for a change , would put a little bit of gloss on it instead of actually bringing up the statistics which show how badly we 're doing !
13 It seems that Carroll 's obsession with time in this chapter is not completely dreamt up , or was his infatuation with continually waking up the dormouse .
14 In the two months prior to writing this chapter , my counselling has involved one thirteen-year-old babysitter for a coven who was drugged and sexually abused for two years before eventually plucking up the courage to tell her parents .
15 A sudden glare from outside lit up the windows briefly .
16 Could my night-time visitor have called in here to pick up the key he had shown me , and left the back door open at the same time ?
17 Inflows of money from abroad drive up the exchange rate .
18 He smiled a flash of white teeth at Katherine and from nowhere pulled up a chair , which he turned back forwards to the table .
19 When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting .
20 Even very old people sometimes have to suddenly grow up a bit . ’
21 I was used to suddenly closing up the shop anyway .
22 The separation of to and the infinitive by introducing an adverb or phrase : I want you to gently pick up the box instead of I want you to pick up the box gently .
23 And if he had to set out on this nonsensical journey to the Fire Court with the Humans , it would be as well to just stock up a bit for his return .
24 Miracle Squares I think there 's a lot of thought gone into it you know , it ca n't be easy to re er to , to just dream up a game erm , I like the one about you go to the last supper and the waiter spills soup on your trousers , the waiter , ha tell you else about the Marx brothers an'all , the waiter is er the king of Snowdonia and it 's Groucho Marx , the , they 've got this massive hall , and er these big steps leading down into it you know and as , as they 're coming in there 's somebody at the top and Ann says who 's , who 's walking in and they walk down the stairs you know and Mr and Mrs and the king has you know and he says oh the king Snowdonia is about to arrive , he should be here any minute now , he should be here dead on this time you know , he gets these big fanfare trumpets up da , da , da , da , the king of Snowdonia , and there 's nothing and all of a sudden it flashes to Groucho Marx and then he 's in bed with
25 Have you ever wanted to just pick up a Telecaster and rock out ?
26 I think , I 'd like to just take up the point about secrecy because I am involved in talking to couples where the , there is a basic problem of male infertility where th the husband of the couple , or the partner of the couple is unable to father a child because he 's not producing any sperm , or not producing enough sperm and that couple come to us for help and advice
27 This simple method avoids having to laboriously pick up the worms one by one .
28 ‘ We hope , between us , to gradually build up the tournament , ’ he added .
29 Reporters had from 8.30am to 10am to write up the meeting or function they may have been covering the night before , or else they re-wrote stories from the morning edition of the Regina Leader-Post .
30 If they do go ahead and put the application in , which I think they will , then , that 's the start of the process , so that 's a good time when we will need to really step up the campaign and we will get National speaker 's to meetings , we will get probably a petition , we will go round the area like we did over the er non funding , but we had to do something quickly , to , to make it clear , you know , we do n't want this to go ahead .
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