Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On several tables draped with white oil-cloth reposed the battered and bloody remains of what was left of five Chinese bodies , and Fred Peavy , the mortician-embalmer , was apparently trying to piece them together to make up the contents of five plain wooden coffins . |
| 2 | I eventually screwed up the courage to write to Richardson , pretending to be a drama student wanting advice . |
| 3 | I was near exhaustion as I slowly toiled up the incline beyond . |
| 4 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 5 | ‘ I called the NRA and they sent someone down to soak up the oil from the surface with sheets of foam . |
| 6 | I just brought up the files . |
| 7 | My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white ! |
| 8 | When I finally hang up the fedora and donate the trusty Smithsonian to the Smith and Wesson Institute , I 'm gon na have a whole floor-covering of codlings . |
| 9 | Sometimes I still pick up the guitar for ideas , but I find that I end up finishing them on piano . ’ |
| 10 | I have a wide vocabulary , which I am continually expanding , so I often look up the meaning of words to use |
| 11 | What 's the point of returning to work and allowing someone else to bring up the child ? |
| 12 | Colt went to the Khan Murjan in the old quarter only when someone else picked up the bill . |
| 13 | ‘ I gathered it up , ’ he was to say , ‘ I actually scooped up the evil hungering thing in my arms and carried it into the house and laid it down by the fire . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You 're not going to believe this , ’ said Alex , ‘ but I actually picked up the phone to call you this morning , except I realized it would have been the middle of the night your end so I put it down again . ’ |
| 15 | . I actually picked up the spots , soon as that Doctor came in , to see if they , right up . |
| 16 | No , I never pick up the phone , they do that , pick up one phone and speak for a minute , while that ones ringing they say hold on a minute , and pick up the other one . |
| 17 | The hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) in the course of an extremely lengthy spech did not answer the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) about fourth , fifth , sixth , seventh and eighth Trident nuclear submarines , which only points up the fact that this nation needs a programme of conversion from arms manufacture to material for peaceful purposes . |
| 18 | If we could precisely specify and conclusively verify every member of the set of observation statements which together make up the meaning of a non-observation statement , that non-observation statement would , in accordance with the verification principle , have its own determinate meaning and in certain circumstances be determinately true or determinately false . |
| 19 | When they arrive at the restaurant cash points they run their card through the machine which automatically flashes up the price and deducts the cost of their meal . |
| 20 | Would it not be very short sighted of the western democracies — not simply Britain — to allow the countries which now make up the Commonwealth of Independent States to drift into such a state of anarchy that a dictatorship could well return ? |
| 21 | These act as an unnatural fertilizer for algae which then use up the oxygen in the water during their rapid growth . |
| 22 | I mean , why have you suddenly brought up the subject of Elise ? ’ |
| 23 | The Bishop , who only took up the post last march , was advised by the Archbishop of Canterbury to take a rest from his official duties . |
| 24 | She might go on for years ; I could be as old as she is now before she finally gives up the ghost . |
| 25 | The producer , a blase+ young woman , toyed with a lettuce leaf and an olive , but on the rare occasions I am asked out to lunch I generally do without breakfast , so I made up for her and discussed the shooting schedule ( you soon pick up the jargon ) with the director . |
| 26 | draw round it , dot dot dot , draw even if you then sketch it without using a straight line , if you just join up the dots freehand , |
| 27 | ‘ I think you just made up the word . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Could you just hold up the bidding while my boys settle with the opposition ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You just made up the word , ’ he tells me , as if that is forbidden . |
| 30 | ‘ With friends , you do n't introduce yourself , there 's no need to ring and say ‘ It 's Tessa here ’ , you just pick up the phone and wail : ‘ I threw up last night , ’ or ‘ I ca n't stand it , he has n't called . ’ |