Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean serving up a one-legged chicken in front of all those guests . |
| 2 | I got to work up a good sweat . |
| 3 | At Benjamin 's urging I helped pick up a wooden chest . |
| 4 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 5 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 6 | I had no previous experience of building anything like this , but by studying the old sheds and some leaflets from a company that made stables , I 'd knocked up a working drawing . |
| 7 | Standing motionless , a yard inside the room , I began to pick up a strange hissing noise . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I like to keep up a brisk pace . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I like to build up a good bed of hops . |
| 11 | I remember picking up a discarded newspaper and reading about a vicious gang attack on two young men , one of whom managed to escape . |
| 12 | I had given up a good job to go there and when I came back after the adventure I had looked forward to for so long , I was very disappointed with myself . |
| 13 | In My Early Life he says I had picked up a wide vocabulary and a liking for the feel of words fitting and falling into their places like pennies in the slot . |
| 14 | When I had left your house , I had picked up a small bag . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've run up a few debts myself , you know ! |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've taken up a good deal of your time for no purpose Mr. Preston . |
| 17 | As the current Gogarth guidebook heads towards halfway in its lifespan and a reasonable number of new routes are being climbed , I have rounded up a few corrections and other snippets that are applicable to the existing routes . |
| 18 | In the meantime , I have set up a three foot tank with a mature filter , coral gravel and rockwork ready for the fry . |
| 19 | I have noticed , once the fish have begun feeding and I have set up a steady rhythm with the swimfeeder , that the crucial time for getting bites is up to thirty seconds after the ‘ feeder has hit the surface . |
| 20 | Luckily this has n't hurt my fish , but the reason for the purchase in the first place is that I plan to set up a marine tank in the near future and I wanted to check my local tapwater . |
| 21 | You know when you 're waterskiing with a really powerful boat and you slant your skis as you curve to send up a whole curtain of water ? |
| 22 | You must tell them that you want to pick up a thirty five percent of the first year 's payment . |
| 23 | She pretended to pick up a dropped paper napkin . |
| 24 | How many sixths would you need to make up a third ? |
| 25 | For years she 'd built up a protective shell around herself , a barrier against which the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune had bounced and fallen harmlessly to the ground . |
| 26 | If she 'd cocked up a second race , Bill would have jocked her off Shine On , whatever Ibn Fayoud said . |
| 27 | Some of them are pretty useless , but you do pick up a little information from each one . |
| 28 | ‘ Now you 've done it , ’ accused Linda , ‘ you 've woke up a poor young woman Sergeant Joe 's been lookin' after . ’ |
| 29 | You can already manage horses better than any man I know — with the possible exception of Tom here — and you 've picked up a good general knowledge of farming . |
| 30 | She had built up a good little business in the indoor market-hall and now she and George had amassed enough in the bank to set up on a farm of their own . |