Example sentences of "[to-vb] up a [noun sg] from [art] " in BNC.

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1 The little room seemed to conjure up a scene from the past , an almost timeless memory .
2 ‘ I 'm just popping into town to pick up a parcel from the station .
3 The captain showed them a rough map drawn crudely on tough , brown vellum and with a stubby finger and guttural comments pointed out the coastline of Fife , the manor of Kinghorn and the possible place where the French could dock to pick up a party from the beach .
4 It is very easy to pick up a meaning from a metaphor which was perhaps not the one intended .
5 The saw will cut off the tongue of one board so that you can use a wide wood chisel , or a bolster chisel , to lever up a board from the side .
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7 So I was in the port , running around trying to charge up a card from the outlets , and none of them were working I was putting in my ID , and the authority for the credit , and the screen would say
8 Bobby expects to make up a party from the works and we shall come along for an hour or two . ’
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