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

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1 I eventually screwed up the courage to write to Richardson , pretending to be a drama student wanting advice .
2 I was near exhaustion as I slowly toiled up the incline beyond .
3 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 :
4 So I just made up a face , drew it for them .
5 My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white !
6 What a diddy — and I just lit up a roll-up in a no-smoking carriage , but the woman opposite was kind enough to point this out to me , saving me further financial embarrassment and financial loss … now I know why tourists are regarded as idiots the world over , it 's because they are .
7 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 .
8 Well i it 's a lot to do with the , the how light it is , I always get up a lot more easily I think when it 's , it 's not dark .
9 Sometimes I still pick up the guitar for ideas , but I find that I end up finishing them on piano . ’
10 When she does appear someone confidently strikes up a conversation about her new film , Othello , instead of Orlando .
11 Just to be on the safe side I also set up a stick float and a bleak whip but I was hoping I would n't need them — so much for being positive .
12 I also set up a room for the program under review , so I can just click at the side of the screen and move to it .
13 I have a wide vocabulary , which I am continually expanding , so I often look up the meaning of words to use
14 What 's the point of returning to work and allowing someone else to bring up the child ?
15 Colt went to the Khan Murjan in the old quarter only when someone else picked up the bill .
16 ‘ 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 . ’
17 ‘ 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 . ’
18 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 .
19 But you know , what an awful Scotch thick-head I am , and that I never give up a thing , before I do not see the absolute impossibility . ’
20 I recently set up a tank specifically to try to breed the attractive little Peacock Goby , Tateurndina ocelicauda .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 ?
25 Headington Amateurs were good value for their two nil victory over Thame at Barton , which now sets up a quarter final tie at Witney .
26 These act as an unnatural fertilizer for algae which then use up the oxygen in the water during their rapid growth .
27 I mean , why have you suddenly brought up the subject of Elise ? ’
28 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 .
29 She might go on for years ; I could be as old as she is now before she finally gives up the ghost .
30 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 .
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