Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do use them for mopping up the blood on the new road . |
| 2 | When she first developed her symptoms the doctors had told her it was ‘ neuritis ’ , and she discovered the diagnosis herself by picking up a magazine article in a cafe . |
| 3 | They blamed her for splitting up the family and on many occasions were abusive to her . |
| 4 | The bald star had been left in tears earlier when fans jeered her for ripping up a picture of the Pope on a US chat show . |
| 5 | PUNK violinist Nigel Kennedy has escaped having a good behaviour pledge slapped on him after smashing up a hotel room . |
| 6 | Blanche fished , tickling him into keeping up the conversation . |
| 7 | Drifting into the Colonial Office because deafness prevented him from taking up a career in the regular army , he brought with him a romantic conception of empire stimulated in the first instance by Kitchener 's Omdurman campaign and encouraged with appropriate reading matter by his father . |
| 8 | Also in 1834 , his supposed misdemeanours forgiven and his contribution to Canada already recognised , he was appointed Superintendent of the British America Land Company , formed to develop the eastern lands of Quebec but bad health prevented him from taking up the appointment . |
| 9 | The 20-year-old beauty consultant was released yesterday after five days behind bars for breaking an injunction banning her from pumping up the volume . |
| 10 | I tried to sell it , but no one was willing to offer me more than five shillings , so Bob uses it for picking up the produce from the market every morning . ’ |
| 11 | Up until now there is no law preventing anyone from setting up a cable TV network , and the cable operator pays nothing to Star or any other channel . |
| 12 | The system will enable manufacturers of digital compressed video set-top decoders to buy off-the-shelf components implementing copy protection , ‘ securely embedded inside a single integrated circuit ’ so that there is no way to bypass it without screwing up the decoder . |
| 13 | The pillar box was mounted on a platform about 10ft above deck and you reached it by climbing up a ladder . |
| 14 | After all , she 's hit the headlines on numerous occasions , what with smashing up the inside of a taxi a couple of years ago and then being done for speeding twice in the space of about 15 minutes . |
| 15 | The French won but it was a Pyrrhic victory and their victorious momentum was lost ; they contented themselves with sailing up the Ouse , burning settlements on the way and anchoring within sight of the town before they withdrew . |
| 16 | But a major difficulty remains : SSDs will be reluctant to commit themselves to picking up the bill for several months ' residential rehabilitation for someone who may have arrived in the area the previous week . |
| 17 | WHAT HAPPENS in Foucault 's Pendulum is that three editors at a Milan publishing house , vetting manuscripts for a series of books on the occult , decide to amuse themselves by connecting up every conspiracy theory advanced by their half-baked authors and fabricating an elaborate master-plan which explains the whole of world history . |
| 18 | Uniformity of policy throughout Europe would have prevented us from building up the strength of the City of London . |