Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were able to drum up a great deal of press and radio material on the sorry plight of British beer . |
| 2 | Broker Cazenove , responsible for marketing the UK tranche of the share sale , failed to drum up the same level of enthusiasm exhibited in other centres . |
| 3 | When he heard of his army 's defeat he proclaimed a huge mushroom feast and ordered his shamans to brew up a fresh batch of Mad Cap fungus liquor for the Fanatics . |
| 4 | How can a twenty-two-year-old mother with three small children , whose stock of crockery consists of three cups and four plates , find the economic or emotional hardware to plug up the six-inch hole around the pipe running from her sink to an outside drain , or similar holes round all the pipes in her kitchen ? |
| 5 | He says Oxford is a wonderland we wanted to sum up the traditional image with dreaming spires and punting on the Cherwell . |
| 6 | This , as Henry looked at it , the piped organ music swelling through the chapel , seemed to sum up the complete irrelevance of English literature . |
| 7 | Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations : |
| 8 | I 'm going to write up a suggested arrangement on the board now . |
| 9 | The task did n't stop here — Fiona also had to write up a detailed log of the trip , complete with samples , photographs and complex scientific data showing when the river had high and low tides and why it flowed in a certain direction . |
| 10 | Saturdays made no difference to us , for there was no school then , but on Wednesdays some of us had to stand up the whole way to Parma . |
| 11 | I was thinking about life , the universe and how much I liked Kim Carnes 's voice ( a voice that makes you regret moving to filter cigarettes ) on the tape-deck when I began to conjure up a mental picture of Billy Tuckett . |
| 12 | This idea of Elena as the colleague in leadership of Nicolae Ceauşescu led the poet , Ion Gheorghe , to conjure up a mystical vision of Elena as part of a ‘ trinity ’ , whose ‘ three dimensions ’ were Nicolae Ceauşescu , herself and the fatherland , of which she was mother . |
| 13 | Pogorelich 's striking if ungenerous coupling again suggests his capacity to conjure up an uncanny sense of drama , to contrast Scriabin 's ‘ quiet of a summer night on the seashore ’ with the ‘ vast expanse of an ocean stormily agitated ’ with the most compulsive virtuosity . |
| 14 | CEDRIC Pioline and Wally Masur produced another round of magic yesterday to conjure up an unlikely meeting in the semi-finals of the US Open . |
| 15 | Our intention was to fly low level VFR into French airspace , climb onto airways VFR , then , as we were expecting to catch up a cold front around Limoges , refile IFR and continue to our destination expecting an IFR approach with a reported cloud base of 600 to 800 ft . |
| 16 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 17 | Remoteness is still the keynote of this region , but a Charlton reiving party would be hard put to it these days to work up a good gallop along the upper reaches of the North Tyne River . |
| 18 | In a cold , late spring it may prove difficult to graze off the rye in time to work up a good tilth for mangolds . |
| 19 | But in a cold , late spring I find it difficult if not impossible to work up a good tilth in time for mangolds . |
| 20 | The stockings on Christmas morning are always full of useful things ( Clarissa 's includes Pond 's Cold Cream and tights ) , then after church the family goes for a long walk to work up a hearty appetite for dinner . |
| 21 | Debriefed in fine detail by Donleavy and DIA agent Neal Miller , largely to see what could be done to patch up a new link with the Asmar network , Coleman was told to keep the video gear pending a resolution of ‘ this goddamn DEA fuck-up ’ and to take charge of Syrian George , who , as it happened , had arrived two days earlier on his J-1 visa and was staying at the International House on the University of Alabama campus . |
| 22 | Why then attempt to patch up an old overall as if one were repairing a sumptuous evening dress ? |
| 23 | According to Santiago O ate , attorney-general for environmental protection , the government has already invested $400 million in a programme to clean up the industrial zone on the US border , home to many of the so-called maquiladora industries , which locate there to take advantage of Mexico 's relatively lax pollution regulations . |
| 24 | With his latest movie , Henry & June , Philip Kaufman slightly varies this mix of spices to serve up a soft-focus hash of Sex and Literature in Paris , 1931 . |
| 25 | At the moment it seems that Labour is poised to pick up a good swathe of its targets — but not , yet , quite enough of them to put Mr Kinnock safely into Downing Street . |
| 26 | In a good postwar election year , the Conservatives would normally expect to pick up a respectable number of seats in Northern England and to some extent in Scotland . |
| 27 | After a year or two I was nipping out at lunchtime to pick up a new skirt for the office party , calling at the dry cleaners , handing in the photos to be developed and meeting friends for lunch with the best of them . |
| 28 | Bruce Springsteen managed to pick up a new house for £2 million less than the asking price . |
| 29 | The rod , in order to pick up a long length of sunken line , should be a minimum of 11ft long , and a maximum of 12ft or it becomes unwieldy . |
| 30 | She leaned closer and reached out , to pick up a few strands of dark hair . |