Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified .
2 I sketch what I want , I mix up the colours as a guide .
3 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 .
4 About six months ago I set up a 48″ × 15″ × 12″ tank for African cichlids .
5 Q. I am a beginner with around a year 's experience and I set up a 48″ × 21″ × 18″ ( water height ) marine tank last December .
6 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 ’ .
7 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 ?
8 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 .
9 I roll up the sleeves of my crisp white shirt , because old thought is dusty stuff .
10 The guns a short distance away along the river bank were shelling the German positions as I started up the bagpipes in a fairly secluded thicket , the sound of the drones and the pipe reed easily drowning the noise of the guns .
11 See how I turn up the corners of my mouth as I tell you again , twenty-five dollars . ’
12 I took up the cups of coffee , five cups , and they give me only four straws , not five , ’ he explained carefully .
13 Then I picked up the lights of Burnham to starboard , and knew roughly where I was .
14 At half-past twelve on the next day , 24 December , I picked up the shafts of the wheelbarrow and pushed off towards Kano on those first , torturous , thirteen miles .
15 When I got home I picked up the threads of my ordinary life again very quickly — you might say I snatched them up , and plunged into a round of work and social life deliberately intended to give me as few idle moments as possible .
16 So I teach them to set up the carriages as if there were not a card in .
17 Remember to keep these screws well back , to be hidden by the frame , because although the Faithful kneeling at the altar are meant to have their minds on other things , this is professional woodwork and we do n't want them peering up the legs of our fixings .
18 She lined up the sights on her rifle on its empty front foot and fired twice .
19 ‘ Had you picked up the skills by watching your mother ? ’
20 She scooped up the bits of spilt polystyrene in her hand and dropped them into the waste-paper basket .
21 She waited until he had passed through the door that led to the stairs ; then she covered up the trays of now cooling toffee , put a saucer of milk down for the cat , stroked the animal 's purring head , saying the while , ‘ Now you get to work , Flotsie , and put your score up tonight , ’ then she went out , and locked the door .
22 they , they actually assign there 's er , there 's er a computer system which er allows you to build up the rates for doing work .
23 She packed up the remains of the bread and cheese they had had for supper , and then watched as he clipped poles together and hammered in pegs ; within minutes the flimsy little structure was up and ready .
24 She took up the handles of the hand-cart and began to push it , and now there was room only for the child to walk by the side of it .
25 She heaved up the handles of the barrow and the remaining contents slid neatly home .
26 She summoned up the makings of a smile .
27 She picked up the shoes from the hearth and put them under the table .
28 She picked up the shoes in armfuls and stacked them away with obsessional care , keeping the toes carefully in line .
29 She picked up the bags at her feet and plodded to the white wooden door , feeling in her bag for the key .
30 She picked up the slips of pasteboard and let them fall haphazardly on the table in front of them .
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