Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] up [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a lovely sight to see all the sleeping hens on their perch and exciting to open up the door in the morning to find they had laid eggs for our breakfast in the three nest boxes on the floor . |
| 2 | Of course it 's not easy to keep up the smiles in public , as the couple showed in Seoul yesterday when they arrived for a five-day Korean visit . |
| 3 | The Sports Council was quick to pick up an interest in this group in the early 1980s when they included people up to the age of 59 in their target groups to encourage increased participation in sporting activities . |
| 4 | Mr X sets up a trust in Jersey . |
| 5 | To be plain , I 'm a bit exhausted , secretly , about the intellectual advantages that are supposed ( by intellectuals ) to accrue from being physically underendowed or peculiar-looking , though it 's possible to keep up the front in public and many a gulled beloved has supposed that this joke of a frame is where my energy comes from . |
| 6 | In practice , people are very reluctant to give up a theory in which they have invested a lot of time and effort . |
| 7 | As a youngster Kylie had proved to be a wizard with a needle — amazing friends by being able to run up an outfit in under two hours . |
| 8 | After joining the bank in 1975 , she moved to Bangor and in 1978 took up a post in London where she worked in a number of West End branches . |
| 9 | In the book Mt Pelee is thinly disguised as the volcano Salpetriere , while St Pierre , the town which was actually involved in the eruption , appears as St Jacques , but the actual events of Thursday 8 May 1902 were so dramatic in themselves , and the tragedy so complete , that it seems a little unnecessary to dress up the facts in a romanticized account . |
| 10 | Insiders may decide to defer public disclosure so that they may first build up a position in the relevant shares . |
| 11 | Then you should first look up the subject in the subject index . |
| 12 | When he first took up the post in September 1943 one of his students was the fourteen-year-old Robert Hunt , then doing a junior art scholarship and familiarly known as Bobby . |
| 13 | The former United Kingdom Home Secretary and since 1990 government leader in the House of Lords , Lord Waddington , was announced as the new Governor of Bermuda on April 13 and was due to take up the post in the late summer . |
| 14 | It was usually best to break up a demonstration in the early stages . |
| 15 | Okay now that comes up a bit in this lesson . |
| 16 | One leading umpire told me : ‘ At last it seems the Board are ready to back up the umpires in this matter . ’ |
| 17 | As the Code requires equality of treatment of shareholders this will usually mean that takeovers of UK public companies will fall within the exemption , which is an important concern to the target 's shareholders as they could become liable to pay up the shares in cash if the section is contravened . |
| 18 | Professional restorers , art historians and journalists equipped with variable degrees of real technical expertise are currently all equally ready to take up the cudgels in causes of this kind . |
| 19 | 5.17.1 to yield up the Premises in repair and in accordance with the terms of this Lease |