Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up [art] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hospital had a flower shop inside its main entrance and I subbed Fenella a tenner to get a decent bunch of flowers ( I knew I should have told them about their pot plant ) while I tried to chat up the nurse on reception . |
| 2 | He did n't know why he kept them really , except that they helped to make up the number on the shelves . |
| 3 | I 'd grappled up the slope on foot just before and knew how steep and icy its surface was and which of the bigger rocks had to be dodged because they would foul the car 's underside . |
| 4 | She sighed , and turned to pick up the clock on the bedside table . |
| 5 | The Peloponnesians ravaged the mine district in 430 ( Thuc. ii.55 ) , but it is hard to destroy a mine without explosives , and it was not till the Spartans envisaged setting up a fort on Attic territory at Decelea ( p. 142 ) that there could be talk of seriously damaging Athens ' mining revenues ( vi.91 ) . |
| 6 | Mr Izetbegovic delivered the appeal for intervention as Muslim defenders of the town of Visegrad , 75 miles south of Zvornik , threatened to blow up a dam on the Drina river and flood a large lake if they sighted Serbian territorial defence members , Tanjug news agency reported . |
| 7 | Turkey 's state-owned Posts , Telegraphs & Telephone Administration is inviting rebids for the contract to set up a Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular system : bids had already been received to set up the system on a revenue-sharing basis , but the tender was withdrawn after the PTT decided to set up the system on a concession basis instead . |
| 8 | For his part , Corbett could only fret and decided to draw up a memorandum on what he had learnt so far : |
| 9 | The governing council of the National Front , the umbrella organization of political and social organizations under the communist regime , decided to wind up the body on Feb. 7 . |
| 10 | The next night he remembered to pick up a video on the way back from work . |
| 11 | ‘ Nevertheless , ’ said Jordan Warrender , one of his senior counsellors who had recently been travelling in Europe , ostensibly on holiday , actually on a tricky diplomatic mission , but who had looked up the Parslows on finding them in Venice , ‘ she is most definitely not with them . |
| 12 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 13 | ‘ I think so , ’ answered Mildred , though in fact she had made up the tale on the spur of the moment and it had somehow got rather out of hand . |
| 14 | They had built up the industry on cheap labour , and their only answer to the challenge of foreign competition was to attempt to cut back the limited improvements in wages and hours which had been secured during and immediately after the war . |
| 15 | The group had met on Oct. 15 and had drawn up a Report on the Commonwealth in the 1990s — a synthesis of an initial Malaysian document and of a more forceful British-drafted version proposing new Commonwealth policies favouring the promotion of democracy and human rights , and stressing the need for an independent judiciary . |
| 16 | I had lit up a cigarette on leaving aunt 's house , without realising it . |
| 17 | For the last , steepest section we all had to climb up a couloir on foot . |
| 18 | There was no sign of Benny , but Ace assumed that the Professor had taken up a position on the other side of the stanchion . |
| 19 | Normally , little jumble could be expected from the few cottages on the headland , but Alex Mair , anxious to associate the power station with the community , had put up a notice on the staff board and the two tea chests were usually fairly full by the time the October sale came round . |
| 20 | Molly had buttoned up the braces on Jacqueline 's trousers and found her youngest child a biscuit when she heard the screams . |
| 21 | Sheldukher considered turning up the voltage on the Cell again . |
| 22 | The heat tended to dry up the gum on stamps and getting them to stick on was the very devil . |
| 23 | Well , no , not really Ma'am , there were still charts to plot , and observations to send to Group , and instruments to read — and the unspoken implication , ever present , was that we were Grade 2 technicians , and if she wanted to make up the numbers on parade surely she could find a few more pen-pushers in nine-to-five jobs ? |