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

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1	‘ I 've had them make up a bed for you .
2	Your midwife and doctor , though , see many pregnant women , so they need to use all their skills to help them build up a picture of your individual , unique pregnancy .
3	Jahangir 's irritation was with the refereeing which , he reckoned , had hindered him throughout the tournament and yesterday he said it ‘ made it hard for me to catch up a couple of points ’ .
4	So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " .
5	Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of :
6	I bring up the subject of music .
7	I make up a bath of dye to treat the sarkandas before cutting the reed to the required lengths .
8	This obviously absorbing hobby is a good stress reliever , ‘ It 's pure escapism and therapeutic — if I have had a frustrating day at work , the minute I get home I pick up a piece of modelling plastic and start modelling , ’ said Rosemary .
9	‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one .
10	Instead , I pick up the clock on it and I see it is half-past six .
11	I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen .
12	In the front seat by Des I fiddle with my receiver till I pick up the signal from the mike in his pocket .
13	I build up a painting like that by covering the whole canvas with a kind of stain , then I get a cloth and rub the images out with a rag , block out the areas of light , then I add very thin layers of paint , then I glaze it and then paint into it .
14	I build up a painting like that by covering the whole canvas with a kind of stain , then I get a cloth and rub the images out with a rag , block out the areas of light , then I add very thin layers of paint , then I glaze it and then paint into it .
15	I caught up a bit during the '60s when I became the oldest teenager in town — in fact I was in my early thirties .
16	I took all of them , then I phoned up a couple of people I knew .
17	On my first evening , my body still believing it was morning , I wandered up the maze of cobbled alleyways to the city 's most venerable quarter .
18	I drew up a form with these headings and time was calibrated in fifteen minute interval boxes which , by the use of a marking code , could also show five minute intervals .
19	I used up the film in my two cameras before following Mick inside .
20	I fixed up an interview with him .
21	I stumble up the aisle to the immense ponderous tones of a god extolling the virtues of a restaurant in Moscow Road , Bayswater , and pass through some dingy curtains into the foyer .
22	I woke up a couple of hours later .
23	And I filled up the boat with forty loads of blanketweed .
24	‘ I shall definitely think twice before I put up a sign like this again . ’
25	I walk up a flight of steps , carpeted with discarded copies of a give-away magazine called Ms London , into Waterloo railway station .
26	Where I call the cut , and he 's going the cut what cut that 's the canal I says up the cut between the two the two buildings she said no that 's the alley
27	One prisoner put it like this : ‘ I waken up every morning with this pain .
28	Now I had the hang of it , I racked up a handful of top to bottoms with plenty of vertical .
29	And then someone threw up a window on the second floor and demanded to know what the hell was going on .
30	I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway .