Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [to-vb] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 2 | In order for the vast pressure vessel ( the one we had seen being manufactured in France ) to negotiate the narrow village streets , it was necessary for the Board to buy up the frontages of over thirty houses . |
| 3 | As he waits for the computer to load up the programmes , he scans the rolls of newly arrived faxes . |
| 4 | Almost the last act of the decade was the decision to wind up the Artisans , originally planned to be by December 1984 ; although in 1980 it was brought forward to 1981 . |
| 5 | As I said , it is a pleasure to speak in the debate , despite the rhetoric and the attempt to whip up the masses outside the House by saying that the Labour party comprises anti-patriotic pacifists . |
| 6 | ‘ But I followed orders , did all the work to build up the muscles and feel great . |
| 7 | We have also set up a couple of microphones in the real of the hall to break up the echoes which would otherwise bounce off that wall . ’ |
| 8 | She watched him fight his way across the room to hang up the coats and then to the bar . |
| 9 | During the summer months hordes of visitors regularly congregate there to eat and drink at their leisure on the paved terrace between the mellow sandstone walls of the inn itself and the river 's edge , where many sit on the low stone parapet and look below them through the clear , greenish water at the mottled dark-brown and silvery backs of the carp that rise to the surface to snap up the crisps and the crusts thrown down to them . |
| 10 | After 23 days , the government was threatening to send in the army to clean up the streets . |
| 11 | Merv the man to fire up the Aussies |
| 12 | Indeed as friend , colleague or relation , the listener has a choice of responses which were not available to her had the task merely instructed her to listen : she could , for instance , adopt a cool intellectual probing , helping the talker to weigh up the pros and cons , or she could set up emotional resistance to the idea . |
| 13 | But some Serbs admitted thousands of prisoners were shuttled around the country to cover up the camps . |
| 14 | the evidence/rationale to back up the benefits you are claiming |
| 15 | Isabel wondered when fitzAlan had found the time to pack up the garments . |
| 16 | I had to strain over the table to pick up the words . |
| 17 | Gedge was anxious to save money and went down to London on a coach to pick up the singles . |
| 18 | Bring to the boil , chopping through the mixture with a spoon to break up the tomatoes and pears . |
| 19 | ‘ It comes every day to pick up the bodies . ’ |
| 20 | Use this side as a guide to mark up the measurements on the opposite side , before cutting , and then repeat the process for the other two sides . |
| 21 | Coffee was taken amid a rush to wash up the dishes , and at last , at two o'clock , they were free . |
| 22 | Well , we have a duty to draw up the lists , and manage the ballot , and by God we will carry it out and support Sir John , or else there will be madness and misrule here for evermore . |
| 23 | However , aspiring unsigned acts with a reputation to make are n't likely to be in a position to sweeten up the hordes of sceptical scribes in the West End of London who spend their days loafing from one free lunch to the next . |
| 24 | IN 1930 at the height of the great depression , in an attempt to cheer up the citizens and stimulate trade and industry , many towns throughout Northern Ireland organised shopping weeks which took the form of festivals . |
| 25 | After ordering that Ward 's court costs were to be paid by the British taxpayer he called for both prosecution and defence in fraud trials to declare their hands to each other before the start of a serious fraud case in an attempt to speed up the proceedings . |