Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " . |
| 5 | Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of : |
| 6 | I bring up the subject of music . |
| 7 | I make up a bath of dye to treat the sarkandas before cutting the reed to the required lengths . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | I took all of them , then I phoned up a couple of people I knew . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I woke up a couple of hours later . |
| 13 | I walk up a flight of steps , carpeted with discarded copies of a give-away magazine called Ms London , into Waterloo railway station . |
| 14 | Now I had the hang of it , I racked up a handful of top to bottoms with plenty of vertical . |
| 15 | As I clambered up the ranks of steep terraces , keeping an eye on my train time , early mist still clung to the bare mountainous knives of rock , and the mountain that the fortress itself stood on was festooned with dark trailing grasses like seaweed , adding to its otherworldliness . |
| 16 | I turned up a couple of minutes early , found the door into the suite ajar and the sitting-room in darkness . |
| 17 | I turned up the collar of my fake biker 's jacket and walked off . |
| 18 | After a long series of such measurements I add up the number of instances in which a particular combination of results has occurred . |
| 19 | Course I ye , I walked up the top of Clarendon Road there when a I was first going out to work up there old Bill . |
| 20 | Declaring that he wishes to offer to the public ‘ the very Journal which Dr Johnson read ’ , he says he will not ‘ expand the text in any considerable degree , though I may occasionally supply a word to complete the sense as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing ’ . |
| 21 | So that is how he did it : as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing — with ‘ wd ’ , and ‘ wl ’ , and ‘ sd ’ , and ‘ J ’ , and ‘ Ld M ’ , and ‘ ystdy ’ , and ‘ Abrdn ’ , and ‘ Mntrse ’ , and ‘ Ednbro ’ , or some such ? |
| 22 | In the course of conversational interviews ( Burgess , 1988 ) that 1 conducted with Valerie Way and with Jenny Ball I followed up the themes of religion , gender and feminism and the impact these had upon their day to day work . |
| 23 | I roll up the sleeves of my crisp white shirt , because old thought is dusty stuff . |
| 24 | I scrambled up the side-wall of the canyon and peeped over . |
| 25 | I must do something , I thought , so I rang up a friend of mine called David Woolcock . |
| 26 | In a misguided attempt to impress the veteran American producer , I brought up the name of Jaume Sisa : a songwriter I once met by chance in a bar in Barcelona , and a man whose work is considered obscure even in Catalonia . |
| 27 | I brought up the question of bans and proscriptions and Sinclair finally stated that no red flags or ‘ unauthorised ’ slogans will be permitted . |
| 28 | The dog refused to budge , so , instructing the two older girls to hold tight to the younger , I heaved up the 196lb of stubborn fur and staggered to the railing I went down to extricate my struggling son and carried him upwards followed by shrieking pleas of , ‘ Daddy , do n't leave us ’ and ‘ I want a carry ’ , from the frantic tadpole in charge of two red-faced little girls who were now starting to show signs of stain and filling tear-ducts . |
| 29 | ‘ To answer both questions I dreamed up the character of a man who is 764 years old ; who is senile but with extraordinary flashes of intellectual brilliance . |
| 30 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |