Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conference agreed to set up a base in Kurdistan , including a broadcasting station . |
| 2 | ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’ |
| 3 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 4 | Nona 'd grown up a lot in New York . ’ |
| 5 | The many deadening years spent bringing up a family in the narrow society of Tidewater Virginia seemed to be evaporating rapidly from her memory in the heat and excitement of the tropics . |
| 6 | They decided to set up a nursery in the house and objections by Renfrew District Council were overcome . |
| 7 | He went nuts — he went crackers , got the cane , and he was wielding it , and it was at that time that the rest of the boys decided to pile up the furniture in the corner and set fire to it , so half the classroom was burning . |
| 8 | They had gathered up the dolls in their arms , some of which were nearly as big as they were . |
| 9 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 10 | He had picked up a fare in the City — an army deserter called Percy Toplis , who asked to be driven to Basingstoke . |
| 11 | She had complained of stomach problems after returning and doctors at first thought she had picked up an infection in Africa . |
| 12 | Miss Braithwaite had picked up the gap in Hereward 's curriculum vitae fast enough . |
| 13 | Richie had picked up the urgency in his voice and had stopped chewing . |
| 14 | They had built up the fabric in their minds again and could even feel some weary well-being as they neared Weem and saw it sheltering between the steep hills and the flood plain of the Tay . |
| 15 | Even without your help I 'd find my family , ’ she said in a low tone , ‘ and it would n't matter if I had to look up every Corosini in the phone book and knock on a hundred doors . ’ |
| 16 | It was only ten minutes , as she had used up an hour in the swimming-baths . |
| 17 | Though the CPRS had drawn up an agenda in four parts , starting with our relationship with the external world , we soon found ourselves in the middle of a second reading debate over the whole field . |
| 18 | I had to knock up the girl in the Post Office to find out where you lived and — here I am . |
| 19 | Up in Doncaster my mum and dad had set up a stall in the car-park of the local Asda in an effort to raise signatures for a rolling petition . |
| 20 | Recently , Iris had taken an interest in a group of young artists who had set up a studio in a converted barn in Lower Benbury . |
| 21 | And so you , you , you I had stepped up a bit in , in in rank , I 'm a but erm there was being , on the social side course being next to the Sir Robert Peel , when we went down there , it was quite handy although I 'm not a drinking man , I never have been , I 'll go and socialize and I 'll have half a pint or two halves but I 'd never I 've never been one to go out drinking . |
| 22 | But first we had to heat up the tyre in the oven we 'd built on purpose to do this . |
| 23 | Already in January 1948 they had yielded up the clause in the wartime Quebec Agreement which stated that neither Britain nor the United States would use nuclear weapons without the consent of the other . |
| 24 | Mr McWhirter had shuffled in , looking like a morose vagrant , some ten minutes late , and had taken up a position in front of the fire . |
| 25 | The FIS had put up a candidate in each constituency ( and claimed to be the only party to do so ) . |
| 26 | The FIS was the only party to offer a candidate in all 430 constituencies , although the FLN had put up a candidate in 429 . |
| 27 | The previous day the Yugoslavs had put up a proclamation in Klagenfurt claiming that Carinthia was part of Yugoslavia . |
| 28 | In his first two years he taught only bits of course but later , when the well-remembered Stuart Armstrong left to take up a post in Australia , he became responsible for teaching Soil Mechanics , although he continued to teach ‘ everything but hydraulics ’ . |
| 29 | And she had kept up the pretence in the air-conditioned hotel and on the pool terrace , drinking mint tea to get the feel of the place , though she could n't stand the stuff really , and never knew what to do with the sprigs of mint . |
| 30 | When she had opened The Bar , Madame had kept up the costume in which she 'd worked when she was just an entertainer in other people 's places — she 'd worked in them all . |