Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked round the hall , then bent to pick up the broken remains of a photo frame . |
| 2 | The proposal for National Parks , however , received further support in the Dower report , published in 1945 , and that of the Hobhouse committee , which proposed setting up a National Parks Commission paid for out of public funds . |
| 3 | An archaeologist who has transformed the way people think about his area of study ; a communicator who can make an enthralling TV programme ; a lover of contemporary art who has persuaded the Fellows of his Cambridge college at least to tolerate biannual sculpture shows ( one of which involved digging up the hallowed lawns ) ; and now , since his peerage which gives him the forum of Britain 's Upper House , a politician , with strong views on how to preserve the world 's history as encapsulated in its archaeology : Colin Renfrew at fifty-five has an enviable career and range of interests . |
| 4 | Prosecution witness Isham Chandra Dutta said he agreed to set up a dummy gems company in Bombay , for a £20,000 fee , which included a mail message centre with false letterheads and invoices . |
| 5 | Neil Pascoe says he 's always wanted to cycle from John 0 Groats to Lands End and then the idea came to run up the three peaks and swim the lakes and try to raise money for charity … |
| 6 | I THOUGHT I 'd write this week about wines from unsung corners of the world , and began to round up the usual suspects — Cyprus , Israel , Canada , Belgium . |
| 7 | Juliette bent down and began picking up the smashed pieces of china . |
| 8 | People began filling up the empty seats . |
| 9 | Pepita began to pick up the fallen bananas and place them back in their crate . |
| 10 | Immediately , her expression and pace of approach changed and instead of the lambasting , or worse , she had seemed about to deliver , she gave the child a tolerant smile and began to pick up the scattered cans . |
| 11 | He was still grinning when he left the centre and as Rachel began clearing up the soiled dressings she strained her ears to hear what was being said in the office . |
| 12 | It absorbed over £500,000 from Mr Green and his fellow private investors in the capital investment needed to set up the electronic links between the telephone ordering service and wholesaler Heathcote Books ( which did not invest any money ) . |
| 13 | I needed to call up the heroic days when Dennis was still around , and we were young and carefree , bonking our brains out while he shouted banalities from the foot of the stairs . |
| 14 | Together , by getting their fingers in the rat-holes , they managed to tug up a few feet of rotten chestnut boarding , tindery at the edges . |
| 15 | The police had picked up the red sports car nine miles south of Ashford in Kent . |
| 16 | Thus provided with capital and having gained almost a decade of experience in the iron industry , he resolved to set up a similar ironworks with the assistance of his two elder sons , John and Archibald . |
| 17 | At times , pressure on space meant we could not do justice to the work she did for us , but nevertheless she continued to keep up the high standards she set herself . |
| 18 | PEP had set up a Post-war Aims Group even before the war began , and within a week of its outbreak had circulated.a draft report on war aims . |
| 19 | The guttering that she had bodged up a few months previously had come loose again . |
| 20 | He made a likeness of Helen of Troy which convinced all who came to sacrifice there that the Trojan War had been well fought ; and for this famous portrait , Zeuxis had lined up the young women of Croton , and taking an ear from one , the set of chin from another , the legs , the arms and stomach and so forth of others , he had assembled his divine beauty . |
| 21 | During the second half of the sixteenth century , hundreds of medieval sculptures and carved images of saints were destroyed or removed , the colourful wall-paintings which had decorated most churches were whitewashed , stained glass was shattered or taken away , and the rood lofts which had held up the great crucifixes and figures of the Virgin Mary and St John were pulled down . |
| 22 | Turning to propaganda , the government attempted to open up the constitutional issues and the Home Secretary , Sir William Joynson-Hicks put the matter starkly , if exaggeratedly , when he commented , at a meeting on 2 August 1925 at Northampton that : |
| 23 | I had to show up again at Ingard House , and I also wanted to tidy up the loose ends of Miss Macdonald 's story of the dead man in the Thames . |
| 24 | These groups tended to divide up the different parts of the state machinery , with the Falangists , for example , controlling the ministry of labour , while the technocrats were in charge of economic policy from the 1960s . |