Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb -s] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Off stage , singer Sheila Ferguson cooks up a soul food storm |
| 2 | Hampden Babylon picks up the challenge , but shifts the spotlight away from Hollywood and its tinsel stardom to the less glamorous football grounds of Scotland , where a cast list of rogues , reprobates and reckless drivers star in the most squalid film never made . |
| 3 | Ken McRobb rounds up the rest of the World Cup news . |
| 4 | British Mogul Champion Neil Munro sums up the problem . |
| 5 | David Skinner heads up the project team . |
| 6 | Anguish : Mrs Ellen Owens clears up the muck and water from her Conwy Morfa flat Picture : COLIN PAXTON |
| 7 | With this paragraph in the preface to Newsletter Writing and Production Handbook for the Spirited Journalist , editor Alfonso B Deza sums up the philosophy of the handbook . |
| 8 | It is by tiny touches such as these — though only a stylometrist would consciously notice them — that Jane Austen builds up the picture of one character 's clubbability , and the other 's insolence of rank . |
| 9 | Dan Knight takes up the story ‘ We were somewhere over Germany on the way to Berlin , flak was very heavy . |
| 10 | Sydney Newman takes up the story : |
| 11 | In Beverly Hills Cop , Eddie Murphy holds up a pack of Lucky Strikes and says ‘ These cigarettes are very popular with the children ’ ; and in ‘ Who Framed Roger Rabbit ? ’ detective Eddie Valiant is offered Lucky Strike cigarettes by a teenage boy and Camel cigarettes by the cartoon character Betty Boop ( Tobacco & Youth Reporter , Spring 1989 ) . |
| 12 | I 'm all for waiting till Mrs Fanshawe perks up a bit . ’ |
| 13 | Mrs Carrington takes up the account from the time when her husband was admitted to the intensive care unit . |
| 14 | If a UK person , ie someone resident or ordinarily resident and domiciled in the United Kingdom sets up a trust which it administered abroad with two non-resident trustees and one resident trustee TCGA 1992 , s87 would not apply because that requires that the trustees are at no time resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and one of the trustees is so resident ( see also TA 1988 , s220(2) ) . |
| 15 | Joseph Rothschild sums up the effect of these events : ‘ Facts became taboo and suspicion pervasive . |
| 16 | IAN OSBORNE rounds up the previews , and lassos a brand new Dizzy game , a couple of sporting efforts courtesy of Zeppelin and an antiquated arcade adventure from Atlantis . |
| 17 | DERMOT DESMOND SETS UP THE DEAL |
| 18 | Peter Dew takes up the story : ‘ Throughout the weekend we worked in our teams to complete a whole range of physical and mental challenges from negotiating the longest assault course in Britain , going on night manoeuvres to rifle shooting . |
| 19 | Reacting with a positive touch Peter Jones weighs up the prospects for the Lib Dems , who meet in Dunoon this weekend |
| 20 | Lord Home takes up the story : |
| 21 | Mine hunting director petty officer Simmo Simmons calls up the image on to his table screen . |
| 22 | The secondary difference between the two is that the dramatic context of King Charles opens up an elaboration of reference points which the simple game does not require . ) |
| 23 | The sea served Armstrong as a background to adventures with a more mature approach to character and circumstance , in books like Island Odyssey , a tale set in Crete in 1941 , The Mutineers , in which a setting resembling Easter Island backs up a narrative strongly resembling Lord of the Flies , and The Albatross , a striking version of Chaucer 's Pardoner 's Tale which I shall return to . |
| 24 | Above top : Geoff Yeadon counts up the empties . |
| 25 | Tim Russon weighs up the odds in Friday Feature |
| 26 | The ‘ Sean Astin digs up a caveman and he fits right in in the Valley ’ plot does n't add to the suburban dumbnation routines but rather reworks the Eighties ' ‘ innocents abroad in America ’ genre ( eg anything from Starman to Crocodile Dundee ) . |
| 27 | Paul Forster soaks up the peace of a Malaysian island , |
| 28 | John Ward picks up the story … |
| 29 | Final sentence ( which sums up the paragraph ) : ( 4 ) In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald picks up the theme : the valley of ashes is the general locale , all the characters of the story have to pass through it . |
| 30 | Sir John Rimmer digs up the Presley hoard . |