Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Brian Gayle did n't defend well for the first goal and Gage did a Val Parnell act in the middle of the park to set up the lad for his second . ’ |
| 2 | BIRKENHEAD 'S Queensway tunnel will be closed for major electrical works this week and Mersey Tunnels staff are taking the opportunity to spruce up the tube . |
| 3 | JUNE 16 : Today I visited the Department of Trade and Industry , where I had the opportunity to pick up a copy of The Personal Protective Equipment Directive ( Directive 89/686/EEC ) , which as a every single-market fan will know , cam into force on July 1 , 1992 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Erm I 'm er rising to take the opportunity to sum up the debate er for those of us on this side of the house and to say that on this side of the house we do welcome these orders actually coming through , delayed though they are and er besmirched though they are by the usual examples of government incompetence in failing to send them to the scrutiny committee in the proper manner to allow the usual processes to take place but wi that 's par for the course these days . |
| 6 | He said he had bumped into Shildon on Monday evening and urged him into a pub , taking the opportunity to make up the quarrel begun on Friday . |
| 7 | A group of us were able to provide almost all the funding to set up a pump and latrines for one particular village in India . |
| 8 | The prince scraped up the money they had set aside to repair the roof again and Anna went off to India with some English acquaintances and stayed with the viceroy and came back with a ruby . |
| 9 | My staff erected ladders to enable the riggers to patch up the envelope and refill it with gas to obtain lift . |
| 10 | But I could n't get the support to set up the business . ’ |
| 11 | The retailer setting up a franchise outlet must pay for his own premises , stock , overheads etc ; he owns the entire business , but has the advantage of selling a product that is widely-known . |
| 12 | In a section on Italian music in La Borde 's compendious Essai sur la musique the writer takes up a position against those of ‘ the opinion that the woodchopper ( nickname for the Maître applied by critics of this practice ) should be banished , and the tempo be guided by ear alone ’ The reason was that |
| 13 | The flames lit up the skyline but there was no sign of Mayne . |
| 14 | Watching the flames shoot up the chimney , he told himself firmly that marriage was out of the question . |
| 15 | He was stoking the fire unnecessarily until the flames raced up the chimney . |
| 16 | The Art Newspaper is delighted to be one of this year 's winners and will use the award to build up the paper 's archive . |
| 17 | The board picks up the signal , and translates it into digital data , which is then stored as a data file on the computer 's hard disk . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When the tide springs up the shore the furthest , it also recedes the furthest — uncovering pools which may be accessible by foot for only a few hours each year . |
| 20 | The phototransistor picks up the light emitted by the l.e.d. in the transmitter section and converts it into an analogue electrical signal . |
| 21 | The chains took up the slack and emerged from the river , long dripping lines of rusty tension , bound to the circular ship with its two little funnels . |
| 22 | The Lila Wallace-Reader 's Digest Fund , Inc. made a $2 million grant for the medieval and Renaissance galleries , and the National Endowment for the Humanities followed up a $525,000 ‘ Museum Program ’ grant with a challenge grant of $750,000 that we have to match 3 to 1 . |
| 23 | The Magic Kingdom is finding the going tough and the resort ran up a £23m loss ( FF188m ) for the year . |
| 24 | So , for the Leningrad group Zoo , ‘ Subterranean Homesick Blues ’ became ‘ Suburb Blues ’ and the lyrics ‘ Johnny 's in the basement mixing up the medicine I 'm on the pavement thinking 'bout the government ’ became ‘ I 'm sitting in the toilet and reading Rolling Stone/Venichka is in the kitchen pouring samogon ’ ( home-made vodka ) . |
| 25 | Then the midwife lifted up the gown and rolled her roughly on to her side . |
| 26 | The rustling of packaging caused him to sigh and ask the computer to turn up the sound . |
| 27 | In the first the computer threw up the names , in the second it allocated the numbers . |
| 28 | As he waits for the computer to load up the programmes , he scans the rolls of newly arrived faxes . |
| 29 | In November 1940 the Vichy government abolished the ineffective Commission de Châlons , intending to replace it with an organisation called Le Bureau de Repartition du Vinicole de Champagne , but in April the following year the Germans set up the CIVC . |
| 30 | Jess could n't see except when the birds rose up an instant only to fall back , this time with Damocles mounted and digging in his spurs . |