Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've had them make up a bed for you . |
| 2 | Your midwife and doctor , though , see many pregnant women , so they need to use all their skills to help them build up a picture of your individual , unique pregnancy . |
| 3 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 4 | Jahangir 's irritation was with the refereeing which , he reckoned , had hindered him throughout the tournament and yesterday he said it ‘ made it hard for me to catch up a couple of points ’ . |
| 5 | So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " . |
| 6 | Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of : |
| 7 | I bring up the subject of music . |
| 8 | I make up a bath of dye to treat the sarkandas before cutting the reed to the required lengths . |
| 9 | This obviously absorbing hobby is a good stress reliever , ‘ It 's pure escapism and therapeutic — if I have had a frustrating day at work , the minute I get home I pick up a piece of modelling plastic and start modelling , ’ said Rosemary . |
| 10 | ‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one . |
| 11 | Instead , I pick up the clock on it and I see it is half-past six . |
| 12 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 13 | In the front seat by Des I fiddle with my receiver till I pick up the signal from the mike in his pocket . |
| 14 | I build up a painting like that by covering the whole canvas with a kind of stain , then I get a cloth and rub the images out with a rag , block out the areas of light , then I add very thin layers of paint , then I glaze it and then paint into it . |
| 15 | I build up a painting like that by covering the whole canvas with a kind of stain , then I get a cloth and rub the images out with a rag , block out the areas of light , then I add very thin layers of paint , then I glaze it and then paint into it . |
| 16 | I caught up a bit during the '60s when I became the oldest teenager in town — in fact I was in my early thirties . |
| 17 | I took all of them , then I phoned up a couple of people I knew . |
| 18 | On my first evening , my body still believing it was morning , I wandered up the maze of cobbled alleyways to the city 's most venerable quarter . |
| 19 | I drew up a form with these headings and time was calibrated in fifteen minute interval boxes which , by the use of a marking code , could also show five minute intervals . |
| 20 | I used up the film in my two cameras before following Mick inside . |
| 21 | I fixed up an interview with him . |
| 22 | I stumble up the aisle to the immense ponderous tones of a god extolling the virtues of a restaurant in Moscow Road , Bayswater , and pass through some dingy curtains into the foyer . |
| 23 | I woke up a couple of hours later . |
| 24 | And I filled up the boat with forty loads of blanketweed . |
| 25 | ‘ I shall definitely think twice before I put up a sign like this again . ’ |
| 26 | I walk up a flight of steps , carpeted with discarded copies of a give-away magazine called Ms London , into Waterloo railway station . |
| 27 | Where I call the cut , and he 's going the cut what cut that 's the canal I says up the cut between the two the two buildings she said no that 's the alley |
| 28 | I sketch what I want , I mix up the colours as a guide . |
| 29 | One prisoner put it like this : ‘ I waken up every morning with this pain . |
| 30 | Now I had the hang of it , I racked up a handful of top to bottoms with plenty of vertical . |