Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do use them for mopping up the blood on the new road . |
| 2 | They blamed her for splitting up the family and on many occasions were abusive to her . |
| 3 | The bald star had been left in tears earlier when fans jeered her for ripping up a picture of the Pope on a US chat show . |
| 4 | PUNK violinist Nigel Kennedy has escaped having a good behaviour pledge slapped on him after smashing up a hotel room . |
| 5 | Blanche fished , tickling him into keeping up the conversation . |
| 6 | Drifting into the Colonial Office because deafness prevented him from taking up a career in the regular army , he brought with him a romantic conception of empire stimulated in the first instance by Kitchener 's Omdurman campaign and encouraged with appropriate reading matter by his father . |
| 7 | Also in 1834 , his supposed misdemeanours forgiven and his contribution to Canada already recognised , he was appointed Superintendent of the British America Land Company , formed to develop the eastern lands of Quebec but bad health prevented him from taking up the appointment . |
| 8 | The 20-year-old beauty consultant was released yesterday after five days behind bars for breaking an injunction banning her from pumping up the volume . |
| 9 | I tried to sell it , but no one was willing to offer me more than five shillings , so Bob uses it for picking up the produce from the market every morning . ’ |
| 10 | The system will enable manufacturers of digital compressed video set-top decoders to buy off-the-shelf components implementing copy protection , ‘ securely embedded inside a single integrated circuit ’ so that there is no way to bypass it without screwing up the decoder . |
| 11 | The pillar box was mounted on a platform about 10ft above deck and you reached it by climbing up a ladder . |
| 12 | Uniformity of policy throughout Europe would have prevented us from building up the strength of the City of London . |